Brilliant Minds

Nobel & Booker winners

The Nobel and Booker winners, as reported by the NY Times:

Herta Müller wins the Nobel Prize.

Hilary Mantel wins the Booker Prize.

Erdrich's Doves a Finalist

This article from the NYTimes notes that Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves is a finalist in the fiction category for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

eBook for Vonnegut

The NYTimes reports that a collection of Vonnegut previously unpublished stories will be released as an ebook: Article.

NYQ 65

 The new issue of The New York Quarterly (#65) is out. See page 151 for my poem "Deeper than Dante". Read, subscribe, support! If you're downtown, St. Mark's Bookshop has copies on their shelf (as of this past Thursday afternoon).

The 2009 Pulitzers

For a listing of the 2009 Pulitzer prizes for literature, see this list at the NewYork Times.
Note that Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves, a book on our Summer list, was a finalist for the prize in fiction.

On the Name and the Muse

The NYTimes takes on an old issue. Remember how those epic heroes wanted to be sung of by the Bards to be immortalized. Well, here comes an examination of the name of the poet: On Poetry - The Great(ness) Game.

What's Google up to?

You may want to keep an eye on Google's influence on the role of the digital book. See this recent NYTimes article. Readers, authors, publishers, and lawyers are all involved in this one.

We'll miss Updike

See the NYTimes on Updike's passing. We'll certainly need to put his work on our upcoming Reading Lists.

Nobel Prize in Literature - 2008

The current recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature has just been announced, and is French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. See the Nobel site as details are added.

NYQ Issue 64 & Hammond Interview

Just released & now available through Amazon:
The New York Quarterly, Number 64

For more details on titles and poets, see the
NYQ Issue 64 page.

Also posted today, a major interview with NYQ editor  Raymond Hammond by Abbeville Press.