In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Man Booker Prize, a Best of the Booker award will be announced on July 10th. A panel of judges has narrowed the list down to 6 finalists: Pat Barker's The Ghost Road, Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda, J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur, Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. The winner will be chosen by a vote from the public. Click here to cast your vote.
If you enjoy historical fiction, Reading the Past has a list of some great historical fiction novels, due out over the summer and fall.
Patricia Cornwell's follow up to her 2006 stand-alone mystery At Risk, The Front, will be released on May 20th. Kay Scarpetta will be back in her 16th novel this October.
Johnny Depp's brother, Daniel Depp, landed a book deal for his suspense thriller, Loser Town. Johnny Depp has a brother? Is he single?
Anchee Min, who is one of my favorite writers, has landed book deals for her next two books. The first will be a novel titled Pearl of China, which will be about the life of Pearl Buck told through the eyes of a Chinese girl. Due out in Spring 2o10. The second will be a memoir, Cooked Seed, which is a sequel to her memoir Red Azalea.
Scribner has signed a deal with Tila Nguyen, otherwise known as Tila Tequila from MTV reality show fame, for her book Hooking Up with Tila Tequila. Scribner's president said "the world cannot get enough of Tila Tequila." Seriously? Barf.
David Sedaris will be releasing his latest book of humorous essays, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, this June. Due to the recent scandals involving fraudulent memoirs, his book will come with a preface, labeling the contents as "real-ish." He recently talked to the Christian Science Monitor about the issue of truthiness in memoirs, saying that as long as a memoir is 97% true, it's acceptable to him.
No comments:
Post a Comment