Nov 13 2008: Commuters nationwide found out during Wednesday's morning rush hour that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had ended and global warming, health care spending and the economy's problems were on their way to being solved.
On behalf of a collective of liberal activists, ...
Nov 12 2008: Joseph Boyden has been named the winner of the 15th annual Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel
Through Black Spruce, published by Viking Canada. The book will be published in the USA by Viking in March 2009.
The largest annual prize for fiction in the country, ...
Nov 11 2008: The New York Times reports nervousness among publishers and booksellers as the holiday season approaches. Meanwhile Bertelsmann, the company that owns Random House (which includes Doubleday, Vintage, Crown and many other well known publishers) reported a 0.7% drop in ...
Nov 07 2008: John Leonard lost his fight to cancer and died earlier this week, age 69. Critic, editor and novelist, he was particularly known for his early championing of future Nobel laureates Toni Morrison and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Kurt Vonnegut once observed, ''When I start to...
Nov 06 2008: Michael Crichton, the author of the blockbuster science-fiction novels Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain and State of Fear, has died. He was 66.
His family released the following statement:
“Best-selling author Michael Crichton died unexpectedly in Los Angeles ...
Nov 04 2008: The British newspaper The Guardian has announced the shortlist for their first book award. The shortlisted titles are: The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross, Stalin's Children by Owen Matthews, God's Own Country by Ross Raisin, A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz and A ...
Oct 31 2008: Pulitzer Prize-winning author, radio host and activist Studs Terkel died in his Chicago, Illinois, home Friday at the age of 96.
Oct 30 2008: The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation today named ten recipients of the 2008 Whiting Writers’ Awards, including Mischa Berlinski, whose first novel Fieldwork, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. The awards, which are $50,000 each, totaling $500,000, have...
The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: The power to see, to sense, and to say. ...
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