South Korean novelist Shin Kyung-sook’s ‘Please Look After Mom’ wins Man Asian Literary Prize – The Washington Post She is the first South Korean and first woman to win the Man Asian award in its five-year history. The ceremony was Thursday evening in Hong Kong.
The private lives of great writers What would we do without literary criticism wars? Just how relevant is an author’s private life to our appreciation or understanding of his or her work? Many would argue that we should disregard it entirely. Others (myself included) might point out that while you can thoroughly enjoy a novel
The National Book Critics Circle Awards for the publishing year 2011 went to Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman fiction, Liberty’s Exiles by Maya Jasanoff nonfiction, George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis biography, The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok autobiography, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition by Geoff Dyer criticism, and Space,
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Athena’s Library, The Quirky Pillar Of Providence NPR offers a look at the Providence Athenaeum in Providence, RI, USA: With a bit of reverence, librarians carefully wind an antique library clock near the circulation desk in a temple of learning called the Providence Athenaeum. This is one of the oldest libraries in the United States,
O’Connell, Carol. The Chalk Girl (2011)Audiobook by Recorded Books Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat When a little red-haired girl with blue eyes shows up in Central Park and hugs everyone who will let her, psychologist Charles Butler’s cleaning woman, Mrs. Ortega, knows something is amiss. She takes the little girl to Butler’s house, where he
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Trending: Read ’em and weep… the grisly life of the post-mortem biog – Features – Books – The Independent The funeral’s barely over before the tribute books start appearing – expect Whitney Houston’s any day now. John Walsh examines an ugly industry
Breakfast with Dr. Seuss In honor of the upcoming movie The Lorax, green eggs and ham at IHOP Dmitri Nabokov, Steward of Father’s Literary Legacy, Dies at 77 Dmitri Nabokov, the son of Vladimir Nabokov, who tended to the legacy of his father with
2011 Nebula Award nominees announced – latimes.com The nominees for the 2011 Nebula Awards for science fiction and fantasy writing were announced Monday. The winners will be chosen by active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America; voting will run from March 1 to March 30. The Nebula Awards pay particular attention
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World Read Aloud Day: March 7, 2012 — Register Now! Change the world, story by story There are at least 793 MILLION people in the world today who cannot read; of those, about 539 million are women. LitWorld seeks to change that by using stories to support experiences of reading & writing among the world’s
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Because I was sick for much of last week, this week’s entry is short. Stories don’t need morals or messages Salon’s Laura Miller caused a flurry of comments recently with this article about a post on the New York Times education blog. In that post the parents of twins talked about taking their kids’ third-grade
