Tea Obreht Wins Orange Prize for Fiction
Tea Obreht won the Orange Prize for Fiction on Wednesday for her debut novel, “The Tiger’s Wife,” making her at 25 the youngest person to win the award.
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Britain’s Orange Prize promoting women’s fiction to be awarded Wednesday – The Washington Post
Britain’s Orange Prize was established 16 years ago to promote women’s fiction in English. The judges look around the world for “excellence, originality, and accessibility” (and no, the first criterion isn’t automatically canceled out by the third). Three of this year’s shortlisted novels deal with imprisoned women, three with the aftermath of war, and three
Darkness Too Visible
Darkness Too Visible Contemporary fiction for teens is rife with explicit abuse, violence and depravity. Why is this considered a good idea? Authors and publishers are all atwitter about this article that appeared over the weekend in the online edition of The Wall Street Journal. Meghan Cox Gurdon, who writes regularly about children’s books for
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Virginia Woolf, my mother and me | Books | The Guardian
Author Michael Cunningham writes about how, as a teenager, he discovered Virginia Woolf through a reading of her novel Mrs. Dalloway, and how his own mother figured in his attempt to write about Woolf in his novel The Hours. As a woman, Woolf knew about the sense of helplessness that can afflict women given too
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Books Preview: Spotting Summer’s High Fliers : NPR
If you’re looking for something to read this summer, NPR has 15 suggestions. And it looks as if there should be at least one something for everybody here.
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Books still big business in 2010
Seattle Times book editor Mary Ann Gwinn writes about a “print isn’t dead” report from Bowker, the company that produces Books in Print. Some of the numbers may surprise you.
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What Oprah has done for books
On this, the final day of Oprah’s long-running network TV show, I have a confession: I have never watched an Oprah show, not even one of her famous book discussions. But so many other people have watched Oprah’s show that publishers are wondering what their fate will be with the loss of “the Oprah effect,”
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Anthony Award Nominees Announced
A list of this year’s nominations for the annual Anthony Awards for mystery writing. The winners will be announced at the 2011 annual mystery convention, Bouchercon, to be held in St. Louis September 15-18.
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Publishers Make a Plan: A ‘One Stop’ Book Site
Publishers have spent a lot of time and money building their own company Web sites with fresh information on their books and authors. The trouble is, very few book buyers visit them. In search of an alternative, three major publishers said on Friday that they would create a new venture, called Bookish.com, which is expected
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Dispute Continues on Harper Lee Book
Strange doings over the upcoming publication of a book about Harper Lee, famous reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird: The statement did little to clear up the confusion surrounding the book, “The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee.” It was announced on Tuesday as “the story of Mills’s friendship with the two
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