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Feb 25 2009: Science fiction pioneer Philip Jose Farmer died peacefully in his sleep today aged 91. His long career included his Riverworld series and six Hugo Award nominations.
Feb 23 2009: Slumdog Millionaire swept last night's Oscars winning eight: best picture, directing, adapted screenplay, original score, film editing, original song, sound mixing and cinematography. The film is based on the novel Q&A by Vikas Swarup which is also available ...
Feb 22 2009: Tributes have been paid to the author Christopher Nolan, who died on February 20 at the age of 43. Nolan, who had cerebral palsy, won the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 1988 for his autobiography Under the Eye of the Clock.
Feb 20 2009: Tranquility by Attila Bartis, translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein, and For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut by Takashi Hiraide, translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu, have won the 2009 Best Translated Book Awards for fiction and poetry ...
Feb 19 2009: The New York Public Library has announced the finalists for the ninth annual Young Lions Fiction Award. The nominees are:
Jon Fasman for
The Unpossessed City
Rivka Galchen for
Atmospheric Disturbances
Sana Krasikov for
One More Year
Zachary Mason for ...
Feb 17 2009: Alfred A. Knopf Jr., who left the noted publishing house run by his parents to become one of the founders of Atheneum Publishers in 1959, died on Saturday. He was 90, the last of the surviving founders, and lived in New York City.
Feb 17 2009: Standard & Poor has downgraded Barnes & Noble stock from "hold" to "strong sell", noting that B&N shares "have risen about 40% over the past 3 months and are now trading well above" S&P's target price. The firm also expects further weakening in sales over the next ...
Feb 12 2009: Although only weeks into the new presidency, President and Michelle Obama are thrilling the book community by finding time in their schedules to encourage the love of reading. Last week President and Mrs Obama talked with 2nd grade students at the Capital City Public ...
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