National Book Award Winners Announced
The National Book Awards were handed out last night. Here are the winners: Fiction: Peter Matthiessen for Shadow Country Nonfiction: Annette Gordon-Reed for The Hemingses of Monticello Poetry: Mark Doty for Fire to Fire Young People’s Literature: Judy Blundell for What I Saw and How I Lied Check out Galley Cat and Ed’s Reluctant Habits…
continue readingHannah Named USA Fellow
I spent the last several days in a hole of depression caused by my failure to mount a successful write-in campaign for Barry Hannah to become president. But then I saw this news item that brightened my mood a bit. I love it when Hannah says he’s going to use the grant money “to live.”
continue reading2nd Brocabulary Giveaway
The signed copy of Daniel Maurer’s Brocabulary: The New Man-i-festo of Dude Talk is going to a creative reader in Illinois. Thanks for playing!
continue readingAdler’s Book Proposal
Galley Cat is reporting that former Guns ‘n Roses drummer Steven Adler is sending out a proposal today for a memoir entitled My Appetite for Destruction. The book deals with his drug addictions and efforts to hold onto sobriety. Undoubtedly, it will also contain his perspective on the excesses of the Guns as well as…
continue readingBondurant to Sign at Politics & Prose
If you’re in the Washington, DC area tomorrow, be sure to stop by Politics & Prose to see Matt Bondurant read from his new novel, The Wettest County in the World. The full details for the event are: Date: Saturday, October 25 Time: 1pm Location: Politics & Prose, 5015 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20008…
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