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PEN Open Book Award
The PEN Open Book Award (known as the Beyond Margins Award through 2009) is an award intended to foster racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities, and works to establish access for diverse literary groups to the publishing industry. Created in 1991 by the PEN American Center (today PEN America), the award ensures custodians of language and literature are representative of the American people. The Committee discusses mutual concerns and strategies for advancing writing and professional activities, and coordinates Open Book events. While multiple awards were presented in previous years, the PEN Open Book Award now presents one award every year to books published in the United States (but without citizenship or residency requirements) by "authors of color who have not received wide media coverage". The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN PEN International (known as International PEN until 2010) is a worldwide associat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Book Critics Circle
The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) is an American nonprofit organization (501(c) organization, 501(c)(3)) with more than 700 members. It is the professional association of American book review editors and critics, known primarily for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, a set of literary awards presented every March. These are for Criticism, Fiction, Autobiography, Biography, Nonfiction, Poetry and the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize. The organization was founded in April 1974 in New York City by "John Leonard (critic), John Leonard, Nona Balakian, and Ivan Sandrof intending to extend the Algonquin round table to a national conversation".National Book Critics Circle (NBCC): About"Thirty-five Years of Quality Writing and Criticism" Retrieved 2012-02-02. It was formally chartered in October 1974 as a New York state non-profit corporation, and the Advisory Board voted in November to establish annual literary awards. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Every Day Is For The Thief
''Every Day Is for the Thief'' is a 2007 novel by Nigerian-American author Teju Cole. The unnamed protagonist of the novel returns to Lagos after fifteen years in New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ..., only to find himself changed by living abroad and confused by the city. The novel was first published in Nigeria, but was later republished in the United States. Plot summary A man leaves New York to return to Lagos for the first time in 15 years after the death of his father and a fight with his mother. He realizes he is not as comfortable in his home country as he expected to be. References 2007 Nigerian novels Novels set in Lagos Cassava Republic Press books Nigerian novellas {{Nigeria-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2023. Events c. July 1 – The public library at Borny, Metz, is among public buildings burned in the Nahel Merzouk protests in France. Anniversaries *100th anniversary of ''Time'' *100th anniversary of ''Weird Tales'' *100th anniversary of the publication of **''Bambi, a Life in the Woods'' by Felix Salten **''The Ego and the Id'' by Sigmund Freud ** "The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek (last installment) **" The Horror at Martin's Beach" by H. P. Lovecraft **"Hypnos" by H. P. Lovecraft **" The Lurking Fear" by H. P. Lovecraft **"Memory" by H. P. Lovecraft **" What the Moon Brings" by H. P. Lovecraft **'' The Prophet'' by Kahlil Gibran **''New Hampshire'' by Robert Frost ***"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" **'' Saint Joan'' by George Bernard Shaw **'' Sonnets to Orpheus'' by Rainer Maria Rilke **''Three Stories and Ten Poems'' by Ernest Hemingway **'' Toward an Architecture'' by Le Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Hub
''Literary Hub'' or ''LitHub'' is a daily literary website that was launched in 2015 by Grove Atlantic president and publisher Morgan Entrekin, American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame editor Terry McDonell, and '' Electric Literature'' founder Andy Hunter. Content Focused on literary fiction and nonfiction, ''Literary Hub'' publishes personal and critical essays, interviews, and book excerpts from over 100 partners, including independent presses ( New Directions Publishing, Graywolf Press), large publishers (Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf), bookstores ( Book People, Politics and Prose), non-profits (PEN America), and literary magazines (''The Paris Review'', n+1). The mission of ''Literary Hub'' is to be the "site readers can rely on for smart, engaged, entertaining writing about all things books." The website has been featured in ''The Washington Post'', ''The Guardian'', and '' Poets & Writers''. In 2019, ''Literary Hub'' launched their new blog, ''The Hub' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2022. Events *1 January ** The 2022 New Year Honours List in the UK includes novelist Anthony Horowitz, cookery writer Claudia Roden and publisher Peter Usborne, all of whom receive the CBE. ** A. A. Milne's ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' enters the public domain in the United States. *5 January – The Robert B. Silvers Foundation awards the inaugural Robert B. Silvers Prizes to recognize excellence in journalism, literary criticism, and arts writing. *11 January – Maya Angelou becomes the first African-American woman to appear on a quarter-dollar coin in the United States. * 25 January – Colm Tóibín is named the new Laureate for Irish Fiction. * 22 April – The results of a survey carried out by Mayank Kejriwal and Akarsh Nagaraj at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering, using AI, reveal evidence of gender bias in literature. *4 May – Ram Nath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Treatise On Stars
''A Treatise on Stars'' is a 2020 poetry collection by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, published by New Directions Publishing. Her fourteenth book of poems, it was nominated for several awards and won the Bollingen Prize in 2021. Content The book's poems examine topics such as the environment and the cosmos writ large, with themes regarding human and natural connection, observation and witnessing, and scientific phenomena such as wave–particle duality. Critical reception The book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. It was also a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry; the judges called it "a breathtaking record of biological, chemical, and spiritual entanglement." It was a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award. ''Publishers Weekly'' called it a "searching" poetry collection with "intriguing, beautiful, yet sometimes frustrating poems take shape as explanations that fail, again and again, to explain anything". ''AGNI'' wrote that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2021. Events *January 1 – British writer and illustrator Anthony Browne is appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to literature. *September 7 – A Radio-Canada article reveals that 5,000 books from 30 French-language school libraries in Southwestern Ontario were destroyed by the Conseil scolaire catholique Providence because they included racial stereotypes relating to Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Although intended as a "gesture of reconciliation", the action meets with widespread condemnation. *October 6 – The National Assembly of France adopts new legislation mandating a minimum price on book deliveries to protect independent bookstores from e-commerce giants including Amazon and Fnac Fnac () is a French multinational retail chain specializing in the sale of entertainment Media (communication), media and consumer ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grave On The Wall
''The Grave on the Wall'' is a 2019 memoir by Brandon Shimoda, published by City Lights. It won the PEN Open Book Award. Content The book follows Shimoda's journeys through Japan after his grandfather, Midori Shimoda, passed away. Shimoda said it's ultimately "a book of people, plants, and ghosts (among other things). They are the books inhabitants, and are equal to each other." Shimoda also stated that the book's writing happened concurrently to the writing of the poems in '' Evening Oracle''; he said working through his experiences in Japan through poetry first helped him access the same ideas in prose later. In '' The Adroit Journal'', Shimoda stated that the nature of the book transformed as Shimoda experienced more and met more people abroad:"Instead of being about my grandfather, the book is about what happens when you try to write a book about something. What happens is that, if you’re lucky, you enter into all these social relationships that fill in the subject that b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2020. Events * April 14 – Bookshops are among the first few premises permitted to reopen on relaxation of restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. * May 26– July 10 – J. K. Rowling releases her new fairy tale '' The Ickabog'' in free online instalments during restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. * June 25 – Louisa May Alcott's unfinished "Aunt Nellie's Story" (c.1849) is first published, in ''The Strand Magazine''. * July 31 – 2020 Booker Prize longlisted (later shortlisted) author Tsitsi Dangarembga is arrested in Zimbabwe as part of a government crackdown ahead of anti-corruption protests. * August – The Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, purchases ''Das Große Stammbuch'', an ''album amicorum'' compiled by diplomat Philipp Hainhofer, which the library's patron Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, tried but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eye Level (poetry Collection)
''Eye Level: Poems'' is a 2018 debut poetry collection by Jenny Xie. It was published by Graywolf Press after Juan Felipe Herrera selected Xie's manuscript for the Walt Whitman Award in 2017. After publication, the book was nominated for several awards and won a few prizes including the Levis Reading Prize. Content The book follows a speaker and their travels through the world as they arrive in destinations like Phnom Penh, Hanoi, and Corfu. The poem's themes include selfhood; isolation; borders; and racial, ethnic, and national identities, among others. Critical reception The book won the 22nd Levis Reading Prize and the Holmes Poetry Prize. The book also was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry and the PEN Open Book Award. ''Publishers Weekly'' said "The work exhibits much promise conceptually and is rife with feelings of loneliness, disorientation, desire, and complicity" but observed that "Yet, rather than build tension and a sense of urgency, the obser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2019. Events *February 2 – The family of the U.S. fiction writer J. D. Salinger confirm in an interview published in the U.K. newspaper ''The Guardian'' that he left a large unpublished body of work on his death in 2010, which they are preparing for publication. *April 11–April 13, 13 – Trinity College Dublin holds a three-day symposium on ''Finnegans Wake'', marking the 80th anniversary its publication. *May 10 – Simon Armitage is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in succession to Carol Ann Duffy. *July 15 – Iris Murdoch's birthday centenary is marked in Ireland with a postage stamp based on a portrait of her. Dublin City Council unveils a plaque at Blessington Street Park, located temporarily due to renovations at her nearby birthplace, 59 Blessington Street. In the U.K., ''The Times Literary Supplement'' has her on its cover. *September 20 – Museum of Literature Ireland (MoL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustown
''Augustown'' is a 2016 novel by Jamaican writer Kei Miller. ''Augustown'' was published in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2016 and by Pantheon Books in the US. It is Miller's third novel; he is also a poet. Plot The book is based on an historical incident from 1921 in which Baptist preacher Alexander Bedward told congregants he would physically fly up to heaven; instead he was committed to an insane asylum. In Miller's reimagining, however, the preacher proves able to fly and people gather in the impoverished neighborhood of Augustown to see the miracle for themselves. Reception Reviewing ''Augustown'' for ''The New Yorker'', Laura Miller contrasts the book to "the stereotype of a 'poet’s novel'—that is, it isn’t introspective, replete with long passages of description, and scant of plot. Instead, it is stuffed with the characters and stories of hardscrabble Augustown, a former hamlet on the outskirts of St. Andrew founded by slaves freed in 1838." In 2017, ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
