Source: TVbytheNumbers, 12-10-13
OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, O, The Oprah Magazine and Oprah.com announced today the newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection, “The Invention of Wings” by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking)….READ MORE
Surce: NYT, 12-8-13
The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review….READ MORE
Source: CBC.ca, 12-10-13
The spotlight shines on Canadian short story maven Alice Munro, who though absent from the 2013 Nobel Prize reception alongside this year’s laureates in Stockholm Tuesday, is nonetheless being celebrated worldwide….READ MORE
Source: NYT, 12-8-13
The best in picture books, middle grade and young adult fiction and nonfiction, selected by the children’s book editor of The New York Times Book Review…READ MORE
Source: WaPo, 12-4-13
“This Town” by Mark Leibovich
There are a few obvious choices — “This Town“,”Collision 2012“, “Double Down“, “Days of Fire”…READ MORE
Source: WaPo, 11-21-13
The 10 best books of the year, 100 notable works of fiction and nonfiction, 5 best photography books, 6 best audiobooks, 10 best graphic novels and more….READ MORE
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Source: CNN, 11-21-13
Fiction
Rachel Kushner, “The Flamethrowers”
Jhumpa Lahiri, “The Lowland”
James McBride, “The Good Lord Bird” (WINNER)
Thomas Pynchon, “Bleeding Edge”
George Saunders, “Tenth of December”
Nonfiction
Jill Lepore, “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin”
Wendy Lower, “Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields”
George Packer, “The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America” (WINNER)
Alan Taylor, “The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832”
Lawrence Wright, “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief”
Poetry
Frank Bidart, “Metaphysical Dog”
Lucie Brock-Broido, “Stay, Illusion”
Adrian Matejka, “The Big Smoke”
Matt Rasmussen, “Black Aperture”
Mary Szybist, “Incarnadine: Poems” (WINNER)
Young people’s literature
Kathi Appelt, “The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp”
Cynthia Kadohata, “The Thing About Luck” (WINNER)
Tom McNeal, “Far Far Away”
Meg Rosoff, “Picture Me Gone”
Gene Luen Yang, “Boxers & Saints”
More than 100 people gathered in front of the New York Public Library’s Fifth Avenue flagship building on Wednesday afternoon to register opposition to the library’s renovation plan.
The rally against the project (known as the Central Library Plan) was timed to coincide with the quarterly meeting of the library’s trustees….READ MORE
Source: NYT, 4-25-13
From left, President Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter attended the opening ceremony of the George W. Bush Presidential Center on Thursday in Dallas.
President Obama joined all of his living predecessors on Thursday to pay tribute to George W. Bush….READ MORE
Source: NYT, 4-25-13
The following is the text of former President George W. Bush’s remarks at his presidential library dedication in Dallas on Thursday, as transcribed by Federal News Service….READ MORE
Source: NYT, 4-15-13
FICTION
ADAM JOHNSON
“The Orphan Master’s Son” (Random House)
Finalists Nathan Englander, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank”; Eowyn Ivey, “The Snow Child.”
DRAMA
AYAD AKHTAR
“Disgraced”
Finalists Gina Gionfriddo, “Rapture, Blister, Burn”; Amy Herzog, “4000 Miles.”
HISTORY
FREDRIK LOGEVALL
“Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam” (Random House)
Finalists Bernard Bailyn, “The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675; John Fabian Witt, “Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History.”
BIOGRAPHY
TOM REISS
“The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo” (Crown)
Finalists Michael Gorra, “Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece”; David Nasaw, “The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy.”
POETRY
SHARON OLDS
“Stag’s Leap” (Alfred A. Knopf)
Finalists Jack Gilbert, “Collected Poems”; Bruce Weigl, “The Abundance of Nothing.”
GENERAL NONFICTION
GILBERT KING
“Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America” (Harper)
Finalists Katherine Boo, “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity”; David George Haskell, “The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature.”
MUSIC
CAROLINE SHAW
“Partita for 8 Voices” (New Amsterdam Records)
Finalists Aaron Jay Kernis, “Pieces of Winter Sky”; Wadada Leo Smith, “Ten Freedom Summers.”
Source: NYT, 12-9-12
The year’s best books, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
The late Manning Marable won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for history, honored for a Malcolm X book. But no Pulitzer Prize was awarded for fiction.
Source: CS Monitor, 4-16-12
The late Manning Marable won the Pulitzer Prize for history Monday, honored for a Malcolm X book he worked on for decades, but did not live to see published. For the first time in 35 years, no fiction prize was given.
Another long-term project, John Lewis Gaddis’ “George F. Kennan: An American Life,” won the Pulitzer for biography. Gaddis is a Yale University professor and leading Cold War scholar who began work on the Kennan book in the early 1980s. The project was delayed by Kennan’s longevity. Kennan, a founding Cold War strategist and a Pulitzer winner, was in his 70s at the time he authorized the book. He asked only that Gaddis wait until after his death…..READ MORE
Source: Yale Daily News, 4-16-12
History Prof. John Lewis Gaddis received the National Humanities Medal in 2005. Photo by Wikimedia Commons.
History professor John Lewis Gaddis won the 2012 biography Pulitzer for “George F. Kennan: An American Life,” which was published in November after nearly two decades of research.
Mary Gabriel’s “Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution” and Manning Marble’s “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention” were named as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography…..READ MORE
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