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Jan 04 2006: The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) are taking steps to correct the decline in reading shown in their 2004 study "Reading at Risk", by announcing the allocation of $265,000 in funding to underwrite Big Read pilot programs in 10 communities. They are ...
Jan 04 2006: The trial of the author Orhan Pamuk, which was set to convene in late December in Istanbul, was postponed until February 7th. In an interview with a Swiss newspaper last fall, Pamuk remarked that "thirty thousand Kurds and a million Armenians were killed in these lands ...
Jan 04 2006: Here's a news item that should bring a smile (albeit ironic) to the faces of unpublished authors everywhere - an enterprising journalist working for the London Times (UK) typed out a chapter each from two former 1970s Booker Prize winners (A Free State by V.S. Naipaul ...
Dec 13 2005: A church in Austin, Texas turned down a $3 million donation to its building fund because the conditions of the donation required them to move a book from their 12th grade reading list. In December 2004, Cary McNair, the film producer son of businessman and ...
Dec 13 2005: Harry Potter author J K Rowling says that she does plan to write more books for children when she finishes the last book in the Harry Potter series but will write under a pseudonym. The book she appears to have in mind would be aimed at younger children than...
Dec 13 2005: Stan Berenstain, co-author of the 'Bear Country' books for young children, died of cancer on November 26, at the age of 82.
He met his wife and co-author, Jan, at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, where they were both students. Together ...
Dec 13 2005: Disney plans to mark Winnie The Pooh's 80th anniversary with a new animated series introducing a 6-year-old girl as a central character.
Disney bought the rights to Pooh in the 1960s from the family of Stephen Slesinger, a literary agent who acquired ...
Nov 30 2005: The winners of the 2005 National Book Awards were announced about a week ago:
Fiction: Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
Nonfiction: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Poetry: Migration by W.S. Merwin
Young People: The Penderwicks : A ...
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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