Showing posts with label Awards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Awards. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
And the nominees are...
The National Book Critics Circle has announced the finalists for the 2010 awards.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
And the winner is...
Two major literary awards were announced today. The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Herta Muller, a Romanian-born, German novelist, poet and essayist noted for her works depicting the harsh conditions of life in Communist Romania.
The Booker Prize was awarded to Hilary Mantel for her novel Wolf Hall, an historical fiction novel of the Tudor period told from the perspective of Thomas Cromwell. How on earth did I miss this one?
The Booker Prize was awarded to Hilary Mantel for her novel Wolf Hall, an historical fiction novel of the Tudor period told from the perspective of Thomas Cromwell. How on earth did I miss this one?
Thursday, May 7, 2009
And the winner is...
A number of book awards have been given out recently.
The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced in April. Marilynne Robinson's Home won the fiction award and Zoë Ferraris's Finding Nouf won the first fiction award.
Ursula K. LeGuin won the Nebula Award for her novel Powers.
Cormac McCarthy won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for lifetime achievement in American literature. This is the second year the PEN American center has given the $25,000 award, which recognizes excellence, ambition and scale of achievement over a sustained career.
Carol Ann Duffy was recently named the new poet laureate in England. Over its 340 year history, Duffy is the first woman to be given the honor.
The James Beard Foundation recently announced its 2009 book awards. The cookbook of the year went to Jennifer McLagan for Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes. Martha Hall Foose won in the American Cooking category for Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook.
Ian R. MacLeod won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction for his novel Song of Time.
The Mystery Writers of America presented the 2009 Edgar Award to C. J. Box for his novel Blue Heaven.
Louise Penny's The Cruelest Month won the Agatha Award for best novel.
The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced in April. Marilynne Robinson's Home won the fiction award and Zoë Ferraris's Finding Nouf won the first fiction award.
Ursula K. LeGuin won the Nebula Award for her novel Powers.
Cormac McCarthy won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for lifetime achievement in American literature. This is the second year the PEN American center has given the $25,000 award, which recognizes excellence, ambition and scale of achievement over a sustained career.
Carol Ann Duffy was recently named the new poet laureate in England. Over its 340 year history, Duffy is the first woman to be given the honor.
The James Beard Foundation recently announced its 2009 book awards. The cookbook of the year went to Jennifer McLagan for Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes. Martha Hall Foose won in the American Cooking category for Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook.
Ian R. MacLeod won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction for his novel Song of Time.
The Mystery Writers of America presented the 2009 Edgar Award to C. J. Box for his novel Blue Heaven.
Louise Penny's The Cruelest Month won the Agatha Award for best novel.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
And the winner is...
The winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards were recently announced. The winners are:
Fiction: Robert Bolano's 2666
General Nonfiction: Dexter Filkins The Forever War
Biography: Patric French The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
Autobiography: Ariel Sabar My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
Criticism: Seth Lerer Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter
Poetry: a tie between Juan Felipe Herrera Half the World in Light and August Kleinzahler Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
Fiction: Robert Bolano's 2666
General Nonfiction: Dexter Filkins The Forever War
Biography: Patric French The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
Autobiography: Ariel Sabar My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
Criticism: Seth Lerer Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter
Poetry: a tie between Juan Felipe Herrera Half the World in Light and August Kleinzahler Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
Monday, March 9, 2009
And the Winner is...
The Pen/Faulkner Award was recently awarded to Joseph O'Neill for Netherland.
The first Warwick Prize for writing was given to Naomi Klein for Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. The new prize will be given for an excellent and substantial piece of writing in the English language, in any genre or form. The theme for the first prize was complexity.
The Lincoln Prize, awarded by Gettysburg College for scholarship on President Lincoln, was awarded to two books: Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson, and Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy and the Civil War by Craig L. Symonds.
Barnes and Noble has announced the winners of their 2008 Discover Awards for new writers. The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips won for fiction. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff won for nonfiction.
The Langum Charitable Trust Prize for best American Historical Fiction went to Kathleen Kent for The Heretic's Daughter.
The Romantic Novelists' Association named East of the Sun by Julia Gregson as the 2009 Romantic Novel of the Year.
The first Warwick Prize for writing was given to Naomi Klein for Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. The new prize will be given for an excellent and substantial piece of writing in the English language, in any genre or form. The theme for the first prize was complexity.
The Lincoln Prize, awarded by Gettysburg College for scholarship on President Lincoln, was awarded to two books: Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson, and Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy and the Civil War by Craig L. Symonds.
Barnes and Noble has announced the winners of their 2008 Discover Awards for new writers. The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips won for fiction. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff won for nonfiction.
The Langum Charitable Trust Prize for best American Historical Fiction went to Kathleen Kent for The Heretic's Daughter.
The Romantic Novelists' Association named East of the Sun by Julia Gregson as the 2009 Romantic Novel of the Year.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
And the winner is...
Borders announced the winners of the 2008 Original Voices award. Steven Galloway's The Cellist of Sarajevo won the fiction award. Eric Weiner's The Geography of Bliss won the nonfiction award.
The 2008 Costa Book Awards were also announced. Sadie Jones's The Outcast won the first novel award. Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture won the novel award. Diana Athill's Somewhere Towards the End won the biography award. Adam Foulds's The Broken Word won the poetry award.
The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction announced its 2009 nominees: Elizabeth Abbott's Sugar: A Bittersweet History, Tim Cook's Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917 – 1918, Volume Two, and Ana Siljak's Angel of Vengeance: The "Girl Assassin," the Governor of St. Petersburg and Russia's Revolutionary World.
The 2008 Costa Book Awards were also announced. Sadie Jones's The Outcast won the first novel award. Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture won the novel award. Diana Athill's Somewhere Towards the End won the biography award. Adam Foulds's The Broken Word won the poetry award.
The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction announced its 2009 nominees: Elizabeth Abbott's Sugar: A Bittersweet History, Tim Cook's Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917 – 1918, Volume Two, and Ana Siljak's Angel of Vengeance: The "Girl Assassin," the Governor of St. Petersburg and Russia's Revolutionary World.
The Mystery Writers of America announced the nominees for the 2009 Edgar Awards. The nominees for best novel are: Missing by Karin Alvtegen, Blue Heaven by C.J. Box, Sins of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno, The Price of Blood by Declan Hughes, The Night Following by Morag Joss, and Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz. You can view the rest of the nominees here.
The nominees for the Dilys Award, given by the Independent Mystery Bookseller's Association, are: Trigger City by Sean Chercover, The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler, Silent in the Sanctuary by Deanna Raybourn, Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith, and The Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow.
And just to be different, Citizen Reader has announced her picks for the Worst Books of 2008. Included on her list are Thomas Friedman's Hot, Flat and Crowded and Oprah's latest pick, David Wroblewski's The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.
Monday, December 15, 2008
All the latest...
The Guardian has chosen Alex Ross' The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century as the winner of its First Book Award. The Guardian newspaper awards the best new literary talent in fiction or non-fiction across all genres.
The Grammy nominees are out and the nominees for spoken word are: Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, Steve Martin's Born Standing Up, Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!), Sidney Poitier's Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter and David Sedaris' When You Are Engulfed in Flames.
Johnny Depp's production company has acquired film rights to Nick Tosches' In the Hand of Dante. Depp is also planning film adaptations for Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary, Gregory Robert's Shantaram, and Brian Selznick's children's book The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Nintendo is releasing the 100 Classic Book Collection cartridge that will be compatible with the Nintendo DS portable game system on December 26th. So far, it is only available for delivery in the UK and Europe. Not sure if there are plans for release in the U.S.
A BBC report shows that 46% of men and 33% of women have lied about reading a book in order to impress someone. Have you ever done this? I wouldn't say that I've outright lied, but there have been occasions when I've just nodded my head and acted like I'm familiar with whatever book everyone is talking about. It's more about not looking stupid, rather than impressing others.
I am a huge fan of historical fiction and I've heard about a few historical fiction novels that are in the works:
Kathleen Kent (author of The Heretic's Daughter) has sold her next novel, The Giant of Edgehill, which is a love story set during the English civil war and early colonial America.
Kathryn Wagner is the author of Dancing for Degas, which is scheduled for publication in Spring 2010. The novel will be in the tradition of Chevalier's The Girl with the Pearl Earring, and portrays Paris in the late 19th century through the eyes of a young ballerina, Degas' muse.
Rebecca Stott (author of Ghostwalk) will release her next novel, The Coral Thief, in Fall 2009. The novel features a group of philosophers on a mission to reclaim art stolen by Napoleon.
The next "big" novel, due out in June 2009, will be The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe. The author is a descendant of 2 women accused of being witches in the Salem Witch Trials and the novel is about a young woman who is haunted by the Trials (does this sound familiar?).
Many newspapers, magazines, booksellers and critics have published their Best of 2008 lists. Take a look:
Washington Post
New York Magazine
The Salon
Amazon.com
Publisher's Weekly
New York Times
The Reader's Advisor Online has published a pretty comprehensive list. There are a few that I've seen on multiple lists: Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Joseph O'Neill's Netherland and Robert Bolano's 2666. Stay tuned for my list of favorites.
The Grammy nominees are out and the nominees for spoken word are: Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, Steve Martin's Born Standing Up, Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!), Sidney Poitier's Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter and David Sedaris' When You Are Engulfed in Flames.
Johnny Depp's production company has acquired film rights to Nick Tosches' In the Hand of Dante. Depp is also planning film adaptations for Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary, Gregory Robert's Shantaram, and Brian Selznick's children's book The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Nintendo is releasing the 100 Classic Book Collection cartridge that will be compatible with the Nintendo DS portable game system on December 26th. So far, it is only available for delivery in the UK and Europe. Not sure if there are plans for release in the U.S.
A BBC report shows that 46% of men and 33% of women have lied about reading a book in order to impress someone. Have you ever done this? I wouldn't say that I've outright lied, but there have been occasions when I've just nodded my head and acted like I'm familiar with whatever book everyone is talking about. It's more about not looking stupid, rather than impressing others.
I am a huge fan of historical fiction and I've heard about a few historical fiction novels that are in the works:
Kathleen Kent (author of The Heretic's Daughter) has sold her next novel, The Giant of Edgehill, which is a love story set during the English civil war and early colonial America.
Kathryn Wagner is the author of Dancing for Degas, which is scheduled for publication in Spring 2010. The novel will be in the tradition of Chevalier's The Girl with the Pearl Earring, and portrays Paris in the late 19th century through the eyes of a young ballerina, Degas' muse.
Rebecca Stott (author of Ghostwalk) will release her next novel, The Coral Thief, in Fall 2009. The novel features a group of philosophers on a mission to reclaim art stolen by Napoleon.
The next "big" novel, due out in June 2009, will be The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe. The author is a descendant of 2 women accused of being witches in the Salem Witch Trials and the novel is about a young woman who is haunted by the Trials (does this sound familiar?).
Many newspapers, magazines, booksellers and critics have published their Best of 2008 lists. Take a look:
Washington Post
New York Magazine
The Salon
Amazon.com
Publisher's Weekly
New York Times
The Reader's Advisor Online has published a pretty comprehensive list. There are a few that I've seen on multiple lists: Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Joseph O'Neill's Netherland and Robert Bolano's 2666. Stay tuned for my list of favorites.
Friday, November 21, 2008
And the winners are...
The winners of the 2008 National Book Awards are:
Peter Matthiessen's Shadow Country for fiction
Annette Gordon-Reed's The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family for nonfiction
Mark Doty's Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems for poetry
Judy Blundell's What I Saw and How I Lied for young people's literature
The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States and are intended to celebrate the best of American literature. The winners each receive a $10,000 cash prize and a bronze sculpture; finalists each receive $1,000, a medal, and a citation.
Peter Matthiessen's Shadow Country for fiction
Annette Gordon-Reed's The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family for nonfiction
Mark Doty's Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems for poetry
Judy Blundell's What I Saw and How I Lied for young people's literature
The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States and are intended to celebrate the best of American literature. The winners each receive a $10,000 cash prize and a bronze sculpture; finalists each receive $1,000, a medal, and a citation.
Monday, October 20, 2008
All the latest...
Lots of award winners and award nominations have been announced recently.
The Booker Prize winner was recently announced. The winner was Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger. "Born in a village in heartland India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coals and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape- of breaking away from the banks of Mother Ganga, into whose depths have seeped the remains of a hundred generations. The White Tiger is a tale of two Indias. Balram’s journey from darkness of village life to the light of entrepreneurial success is utterly amoral, brilliantly irreverent, deeply endearing and altogether unforgettable."
The National Book Award nominees were also recently announced. The nominees for fiction are:
Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project, Rachel Kushner's Telex from Cuba, Peter Matthiessen's Shadow Country, Marilynne Robinson's Home, and Salvatore Scibona's The End.
Larry Doyle's I Love You Beth Cooper was announced as the winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
The Nobel Prize for Literature went to French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio.
The Bouchercon World Mystery Convention is held annually and hosts the awards ceremonies for several mystery and thriller awards. Laura Lippman and Tana French were popular.
The Anthony Award is a fan-based award voted on by those attending the conference. The winners of the Anthony Awards are: What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman for Best Mystery Novel, In the Woods by Tana French for Best First Mystery, A Thousand Bones by P.J. Parrish for Best Paperback Original, Hardly Knew Her by Laura Lippman for Best Short Story, and Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower & Charles Foley Penguin for Critical Work.
The Shamus Award is given by the Private Eye Writers of America to recognize the private eye genre. The winners are: Soul Patch by Reed Farrell Coleman for Best P.I. Novel, Songs of Innocence by Richard Aleas for Best P.I. Paperback Original, Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover for Best P.I. First Novel, Hungry Enough by Cornelia Read for Best P.I. Short Story and the Eye Award for lifetime achievement to Joe Gores.
The Macavity Awards are for the best mystery novels. The winners are: Tana French's In The Woods for Best First Mystery, Please Watch Your Step by Rhys Bowen for Best Mystery Short Story, The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians edited and compiled by Roger Sobin for Best Mystery Non-Fiction, and the Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery to Ariana Franklin for Mistress of the Art of Death.
The Barry Awards are voted on by readers of Deadly Pleasures and Mystery News magazines. The winners are: What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman for Best Novel, In the Woods by Tana French for Best First Novel, Damnation Falls by Edward Wright for Best British Crime Novel, The Watchman: A Joe Pike Novel by Robert Crais for Best Thriller, Queenpin: A Novel by Megan Abbott for Best Paperback Original, and "The Problem of the Summer Snowman" by Edward D. Hoch for Best Short Story.
The Booker Prize winner was recently announced. The winner was Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger. "Born in a village in heartland India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coals and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape- of breaking away from the banks of Mother Ganga, into whose depths have seeped the remains of a hundred generations. The White Tiger is a tale of two Indias. Balram’s journey from darkness of village life to the light of entrepreneurial success is utterly amoral, brilliantly irreverent, deeply endearing and altogether unforgettable."
The National Book Award nominees were also recently announced. The nominees for fiction are:
Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project, Rachel Kushner's Telex from Cuba, Peter Matthiessen's Shadow Country, Marilynne Robinson's Home, and Salvatore Scibona's The End.
Larry Doyle's I Love You Beth Cooper was announced as the winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
The Nobel Prize for Literature went to French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio.
The Bouchercon World Mystery Convention is held annually and hosts the awards ceremonies for several mystery and thriller awards. Laura Lippman and Tana French were popular.
The Anthony Award is a fan-based award voted on by those attending the conference. The winners of the Anthony Awards are: What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman for Best Mystery Novel, In the Woods by Tana French for Best First Mystery, A Thousand Bones by P.J. Parrish for Best Paperback Original, Hardly Knew Her by Laura Lippman for Best Short Story, and Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower & Charles Foley Penguin for Critical Work.
The Shamus Award is given by the Private Eye Writers of America to recognize the private eye genre. The winners are: Soul Patch by Reed Farrell Coleman for Best P.I. Novel, Songs of Innocence by Richard Aleas for Best P.I. Paperback Original, Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover for Best P.I. First Novel, Hungry Enough by Cornelia Read for Best P.I. Short Story and the Eye Award for lifetime achievement to Joe Gores.
The Macavity Awards are for the best mystery novels. The winners are: Tana French's In The Woods for Best First Mystery, Please Watch Your Step by Rhys Bowen for Best Mystery Short Story, The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians edited and compiled by Roger Sobin for Best Mystery Non-Fiction, and the Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery to Ariana Franklin for Mistress of the Art of Death.
The Barry Awards are voted on by readers of Deadly Pleasures and Mystery News magazines. The winners are: What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman for Best Novel, In the Woods by Tana French for Best First Novel, Damnation Falls by Edward Wright for Best British Crime Novel, The Watchman: A Joe Pike Novel by Robert Crais for Best Thriller, Queenpin: A Novel by Megan Abbott for Best Paperback Original, and "The Problem of the Summer Snowman" by Edward D. Hoch for Best Short Story.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
All the Latest...
Trying to come up with the perfect name for your new bundle of joy (or fur)? Try A is for Atticus: Baby Names from Great Books by Lorilee Craker. Harry and Bella are the current popular names, but there are some great ones that none of the other kids (or dogs/cats) will have. I like Mr. Tibbs for a cat name. (Ok, so that's not from a book. But who knows what movie that is from?)
One of my new favorite mystery writers, Ariana Franklin, has two more books in the works, both part of her great historical mystery series featuring the mistress in the art of death, Dr. Vesuvia Adelia Rachel Ortese Aguilar. Book 3 will be released in the spring of '09 and book 4 will be released in the spring of '10.
Last month I mentioned the story about Random House cancelling the publication of Sherry Jones' novel, The Jewel of Medina, a historical fiction novel detailing the origins of Islam through the eyes of the prophet Muhammad's youngest wife A'isha, because they were afraid the book might be offensive to some in the Muslim community. It seems that this has caused some bad feelings toward Random House. The Langum Charitable Trust, which awards two $1000 prizes each year to writers, says it will not consider any submissions of any books from Random House or any of its affiliates due to its "cowardly self-censorship." Meanwhile, it seems that all this attention has helped get the book published overseas. The rights to publish the novel have been sold to publishers in Denmark, Spain and Brazil.
Three finalists for the 2008 Thurber Prize for American Humor have been announced. The finalists are: Larry Doyle for I Love You, Beth Cooper, Patricia Marx for Him Her Him Again The End of Him, and Simon Rich for Ant Farm.
Another film adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel is set to hit the big screen this fall. The Road will be released on November 26th, starring Viggo Mortensen.
I just read that XBox has partnered with Rock the Vote to allow people to register to vote via their XBox Live subscription. That is seriously cool. Has anyone tried this?
Oprah will be announcing her next book club pick soon. The book is apparently a Harper Collins title that is only available in hardcover and large print. People who care are betting on either Paul Coelho's Brida or David Wroblewski's The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. After her disappointing pick for the last book, I've given up hope.
One of my new favorite mystery writers, Ariana Franklin, has two more books in the works, both part of her great historical mystery series featuring the mistress in the art of death, Dr. Vesuvia Adelia Rachel Ortese Aguilar. Book 3 will be released in the spring of '09 and book 4 will be released in the spring of '10.
Last month I mentioned the story about Random House cancelling the publication of Sherry Jones' novel, The Jewel of Medina, a historical fiction novel detailing the origins of Islam through the eyes of the prophet Muhammad's youngest wife A'isha, because they were afraid the book might be offensive to some in the Muslim community. It seems that this has caused some bad feelings toward Random House. The Langum Charitable Trust, which awards two $1000 prizes each year to writers, says it will not consider any submissions of any books from Random House or any of its affiliates due to its "cowardly self-censorship." Meanwhile, it seems that all this attention has helped get the book published overseas. The rights to publish the novel have been sold to publishers in Denmark, Spain and Brazil.
Three finalists for the 2008 Thurber Prize for American Humor have been announced. The finalists are: Larry Doyle for I Love You, Beth Cooper, Patricia Marx for Him Her Him Again The End of Him, and Simon Rich for Ant Farm.
Another film adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel is set to hit the big screen this fall. The Road will be released on November 26th, starring Viggo Mortensen.
I just read that XBox has partnered with Rock the Vote to allow people to register to vote via their XBox Live subscription. That is seriously cool. Has anyone tried this?
Oprah will be announcing her next book club pick soon. The book is apparently a Harper Collins title that is only available in hardcover and large print. People who care are betting on either Paul Coelho's Brida or David Wroblewski's The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. After her disappointing pick for the last book, I've given up hope.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
All the Latest...
Michael Chabon's novel The Yiddish Policeman's Union was declared the winner of the Hugo Award for best novel. The book also won the Nebula Award for best novel, the Locus Award for best science fiction novel and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. It was also nominated for an Edgar Award. A film adaptation of the novel will be written and directed by the Cohen brothers.
The Romance Writers of America announced the winners of the 2008 RITA Awards. Dead Girls Are Easy by Terri Garey won the award for best first book. Take a look at the rest of the winners here.
The Private Eye Writers of America have announced the nominees for the 2008 Shamus Awards.
T.C. Boyle will be publishing a novel about the life of Frank Lloyd Wright, told through the eyes of four women who loved him, titled The Women, due out in 2009.
Starbucks' latest book pick is the memoir The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood. In the book, Cooper chronicles her coming of age in Liberia during the 1980s. Following the country's fall into civil war and her family's exile to America, Cooper also recounts her return to Liberia, decades after she fled, to find the foster sister who was left behind.
Stephenie Meyer's fourth book in her popular Twilight series, Breaking Dawn, sold an estimated 1.3 million copies on its August 2nd release date.
The publication of Sherry Jones' novel, The Jewel of Medina, a historical fiction novel detailing the origins of Islam through the eyes of the prophet Muhammad's youngest wife A'isha, has been cancelled by Random House. RH stated that they received advice from "credible and unrelated sources...that the publication of this book might be offensive to some in the Muslim community, but also that it could incite acts of violence by a small, radical segment." An article in the Wall Street Journal claimed that Denise Spellberg, an associate professor of history and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas, was the instigator of the book's cancellation. Apparently she was given a galley from Random House, which hoped for a comment to use on the book jacket. Spellberg, whose research on A'isha is widely cited, does not support the book, stating that it is a deliberate misinterpretation of history (although Jones' cites 29 scholarly and religious texts used in research for the novel). Spellberg refuted the accusations that she is the cause of the cancellation. RH has said that Jones is free to sell her book to other publishers and she has published the novel's prologue on the blog Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. There is a good summary of the fiasco and links to articles from the WSJ and other news sources on Wikipedia. Hopefully she'll find another publisher-now I'm intersted in reading this!
The Romance Writers of America announced the winners of the 2008 RITA Awards. Dead Girls Are Easy by Terri Garey won the award for best first book. Take a look at the rest of the winners here.
The Private Eye Writers of America have announced the nominees for the 2008 Shamus Awards.
T.C. Boyle will be publishing a novel about the life of Frank Lloyd Wright, told through the eyes of four women who loved him, titled The Women, due out in 2009.
Starbucks' latest book pick is the memoir The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood. In the book, Cooper chronicles her coming of age in Liberia during the 1980s. Following the country's fall into civil war and her family's exile to America, Cooper also recounts her return to Liberia, decades after she fled, to find the foster sister who was left behind.
Stephenie Meyer's fourth book in her popular Twilight series, Breaking Dawn, sold an estimated 1.3 million copies on its August 2nd release date.
The publication of Sherry Jones' novel, The Jewel of Medina, a historical fiction novel detailing the origins of Islam through the eyes of the prophet Muhammad's youngest wife A'isha, has been cancelled by Random House. RH stated that they received advice from "credible and unrelated sources...that the publication of this book might be offensive to some in the Muslim community, but also that it could incite acts of violence by a small, radical segment." An article in the Wall Street Journal claimed that Denise Spellberg, an associate professor of history and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas, was the instigator of the book's cancellation. Apparently she was given a galley from Random House, which hoped for a comment to use on the book jacket. Spellberg, whose research on A'isha is widely cited, does not support the book, stating that it is a deliberate misinterpretation of history (although Jones' cites 29 scholarly and religious texts used in research for the novel). Spellberg refuted the accusations that she is the cause of the cancellation. RH has said that Jones is free to sell her book to other publishers and she has published the novel's prologue on the blog Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. There is a good summary of the fiasco and links to articles from the WSJ and other news sources on Wikipedia. Hopefully she'll find another publisher-now I'm intersted in reading this!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
And the nominees are...
The 2008 longlist for the Man Booker Prize was recently released, and the nominees are:
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
From A to X by John Berger
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
The shortlist will be announced in September and the winner on October 14th.
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
From A to X by John Berger
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
The shortlist will be announced in September and the winner on October 14th.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
And the winner is...
Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher won the £30,000 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction."The judges were unanimous: this is one of those great non-fiction books that uses the techniques of fiction to magnificent effect," said judging panel chair Rosie Boycott. "On first reading, it is an absolute page-turner. Then, when you reread it, you realise how many levels it has, how much it tells you." I told you this was a great read!
Thursday, June 19, 2008
All the Latest...
For a few months speculations have been made about the topic of an upcoming memoir to be published by Simon and Schuster this summer. It turns out that Christopher Ciccone, brother of Madonna, will be publishing his memoir of his sister. Due out in July.
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards were recently announced. The winner is DeNiro's Game by Rawi Hage. The award, which is managed by the Dublin City Public Library, is given to a work with high literary merit and nominations are made by libraries around the world.
Denis Johnson, winner of the 2007 National Book Award for his novel Tree of Smoke, will be publishing his next novel called Nobody Move in four installments in Playboy magazine. The installments will begin in the July issue and run through the October issue.
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards were recently announced. The winner is DeNiro's Game by Rawi Hage. The award, which is managed by the Dublin City Public Library, is given to a work with high literary merit and nominations are made by libraries around the world.
Denis Johnson, winner of the 2007 National Book Award for his novel Tree of Smoke, will be publishing his next novel called Nobody Move in four installments in Playboy magazine. The installments will begin in the July issue and run through the October issue.
Oprah recently gave the commencement address to the graduates of Yale University. Because Oprah loves to give out free stuff, all the graduates were given copies of her latest pick, Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth and another of her favorites: A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink. I bet those graduates were thinking "what about the free car?"
Debbie Macomber, best-selling fiction author, has signed a deal to write 2 nonfiction inspirational titles. The first will be called Fishes and Loaves: Living in a Spirit of Generosity.
Stephen King and his son Joe Hill will publish their first collaboration, a novella titled Throttle, due out in early 2009. Movie rights have been optioned.
A great vacation for the die-hard Austen fan.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Good Eats
Confession: I am a sucker for cookbooks. I love paging through recipes, looking at the pictures of perfectly created dishes (Cookbooks without pictures? Not interested.). I also love books about food and cooking (see posts about my love for Anthony Bourdain). Over the years, I have amassed a fairly large collection of recipes and cookbooks. In my fantasies I am able to create beautiful, elaborate meals (with very little mess) that amaze my family and cause them to proclaim me the best cook in the world. True, the likelihood of that happening is zero and most of the recipes in my collection have never been attempted, but that doesn't mean I'm not always on the lookout for the next cookbook to add to my collection. A girl can dream, can't she? The James Beard Foundation Awards (considered the Oscars of the food world) were recently announced and are a great resource for reading suggestions. The winners are:
Cookbook of the Year: The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Cookbook Hall of Fame: Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco by Paula Wolfert
Asian Cooking: My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking by Niloufer Ichaporia King
Baking and Dessert: Peter Reinhart's Whole Grain Breads: New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor by Peter Reinhart
Cooking from a Professional Point of View: The Fundamental Techniques of Classic Cuisine by The French Culinary Institute with Judith Choate
Entertaining: Dish Entertains by Trish Magwood
Americana: A Love Affair with Southern Cooking by Jean Anderson
General: Cooking by James Peterson
Healthy Focus: The EatingWell Diet by Jean Harvey-Berino with Joyce Hendley and the Editors of EatingWell
International: The Country Cooking of France by Anne Willan
Reference: A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur's Guide to Oyster Eating in North America by Rowan Jacobsen
Single Subject: The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Wine and Spirits: Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar by David Wondrich
Writing on Food: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
Photography: The Country Cooking of France by Anne Willan; Photographer: France Ruffenach
Cookbook of the Year: The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Cookbook Hall of Fame: Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco by Paula Wolfert
Asian Cooking: My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking by Niloufer Ichaporia King
Baking and Dessert: Peter Reinhart's Whole Grain Breads: New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor by Peter Reinhart
Cooking from a Professional Point of View: The Fundamental Techniques of Classic Cuisine by The French Culinary Institute with Judith Choate
Entertaining: Dish Entertains by Trish Magwood
Americana: A Love Affair with Southern Cooking by Jean Anderson
General: Cooking by James Peterson
Healthy Focus: The EatingWell Diet by Jean Harvey-Berino with Joyce Hendley and the Editors of EatingWell
International: The Country Cooking of France by Anne Willan
Reference: A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur's Guide to Oyster Eating in North America by Rowan Jacobsen
Single Subject: The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Wine and Spirits: Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar by David Wondrich
Writing on Food: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
Photography: The Country Cooking of France by Anne Willan; Photographer: France Ruffenach
Saturday, June 7, 2008
And the Winners Are...
The winner of the 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction is Rose Tremain, for her novel The Road Home. The Orange Broadband prize is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, awarded annually for the best original full-length novel by a female author of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK in the preceding year. The winner of the prize receives £30,000.
Each year the Audio Publisher's Association presents the Audie Awards for best audiobooks of the year. The 2008 awards were recently announced. Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas won for best fiction. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson won for best literary fiction. Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke won for best mystery. Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips won for best romance. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill won for best thriller. Garrison Keillor's Pontoon won for best narration by an author. Walter Isaacson's Einstein won best biography. Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!) won the humor award.
Each year the Audio Publisher's Association presents the Audie Awards for best audiobooks of the year. The 2008 awards were recently announced. Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas won for best fiction. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson won for best literary fiction. Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke won for best mystery. Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips won for best romance. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill won for best thriller. Garrison Keillor's Pontoon won for best narration by an author. Walter Isaacson's Einstein won best biography. Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!) won the humor award.
Friday, May 23, 2008
And the nominees are....
The shortlist for the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction was announced on May 15th. The nominees are:
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher
Crow Country by Mark Cocker
The Whisperers by Orlando Figes
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
by Patrick French
The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House
by Kate Summerscale
The Samuel Johnson Prize is the UK's most prestigious non-fiction award. The winner will be announced on July 15th and will receive £30,000.
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher
Crow Country by Mark Cocker
The Whisperers by Orlando Figes
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
by Patrick French
The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House
by Kate Summerscale
The Samuel Johnson Prize is the UK's most prestigious non-fiction award. The winner will be announced on July 15th and will receive £30,000.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
And the winnner is...
The Pulitzer Prize winners were recently announced and Junot Diaz's novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao won the award for fiction. This is the first novel for Dominican-American author Diaz, which also won the National Book Critics' Circle Award and was a 2007 New York Times Notable Book. The story follows the life of Oscar, an overweight, nerdy Dominican boy, from childhood to his untimely death as an adult. The narrator, Yunior tells of Oscar's struggle to make friends, lose weight, and find a woman to love him.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
And the winner is....
Each year, the Horror Writer's Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement, named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror work, Dracula.
This year's winner for best novel is The Missing by Sarah Langan. Publisher's Weekly called her novel a "creepfest that recalls...the early work of Stephen King." An environmental catastrophe destroys the blue collar town of Bedford. On a school field trip to the abandoned town, an ancient horror is unearthed: a contagious plague that transforms its victims into something violent, hungry, and inhuman.
Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box won for best first novel. See my previous review, or lack of review, because I was too creeped out to finish the book.
This year's winner for best novel is The Missing by Sarah Langan. Publisher's Weekly called her novel a "creepfest that recalls...the early work of Stephen King." An environmental catastrophe destroys the blue collar town of Bedford. On a school field trip to the abandoned town, an ancient horror is unearthed: a contagious plague that transforms its victims into something violent, hungry, and inhuman.
Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box won for best first novel. See my previous review, or lack of review, because I was too creeped out to finish the book.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
And the nominees are....
Quite a few book award nominations have been announced recently.
The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, awarded annually for the best original full-length novel by a female author of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK in the preceding year. The winner of the prize receives £30,000. The nominees are (seven of the novels are by first-time novelists):
The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
The Room of Lost Things by Stella Duffy
The Keep by Jennifer Egan
The Gathering by Anne Enright
The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
The Master Bedroom by Tessa Hadley
Fault Lines by Nancy Huston
Sorry by Gail Jones
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg
When We Were Bad by Charlotte Mendelson
In the Dark by Deborah Moggach
Mistress by Anita Nair
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
Monster Love by Carol Topolski
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
Lottery by Patricia Wood
The Thriller Awards are awarded by the International Thriller Writers. The nominees are:
BEST NOVEL
No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
The Watchman by Robert Crais
The Ghost by Robert Harris
The Crime Writer by Gregg Hurwitz
Trouble by Jesse Kellerman
BEST FIRST NOVEL
Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell
Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover
From the Depths by Gerry Doyle
Volk's Game by Brent Ghelfi
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
The Last Nightingale by Anthony Flacco
A Thousand Bones by P.J. Parrish
The Midnight Road by Tom Piccirilli
The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon
Shattered by Jay Bonansinga
The Hugo Awards are given every year for the best science fiction or fantasy work of the previous year. The nominees for best novel are:
The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
Brasyl by Ian McDonald
Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer
The Last Colony by John Scalzi
Halting State by Charles Stross
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. The Arthur C. Clarke award nominees are:
The Red Men by Matthew de Abaitua
The H-Bomb Girl by Stephen Baxter
The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod
Black Man by Richard Morgan - Gollancz
The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, awarded annually for the best original full-length novel by a female author of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK in the preceding year. The winner of the prize receives £30,000. The nominees are (seven of the novels are by first-time novelists):
The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
The Room of Lost Things by Stella Duffy
The Keep by Jennifer Egan
The Gathering by Anne Enright
The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
The Master Bedroom by Tessa Hadley
Fault Lines by Nancy Huston
Sorry by Gail Jones
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg
When We Were Bad by Charlotte Mendelson
In the Dark by Deborah Moggach
Mistress by Anita Nair
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
Monster Love by Carol Topolski
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
Lottery by Patricia Wood
The Thriller Awards are awarded by the International Thriller Writers. The nominees are:
BEST NOVEL
No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
The Watchman by Robert Crais
The Ghost by Robert Harris
The Crime Writer by Gregg Hurwitz
Trouble by Jesse Kellerman
BEST FIRST NOVEL
Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell
Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover
From the Depths by Gerry Doyle
Volk's Game by Brent Ghelfi
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
The Last Nightingale by Anthony Flacco
A Thousand Bones by P.J. Parrish
The Midnight Road by Tom Piccirilli
The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon
Shattered by Jay Bonansinga
The Hugo Awards are given every year for the best science fiction or fantasy work of the previous year. The nominees for best novel are:
The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
Brasyl by Ian McDonald
Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer
The Last Colony by John Scalzi
Halting State by Charles Stross
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. The Arthur C. Clarke award nominees are:
The Red Men by Matthew de Abaitua
The H-Bomb Girl by Stephen Baxter
The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod
Black Man by Richard Morgan - Gollancz
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