Genre: Fiction
Hadley, Lam, and Shepard Named Story Prize Finalists
The finalists for the fourth annual Story Prize, a $20,000 award given
for the year's best short fiction, were announced yesterday.
Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Agent Lynn Nesbit
With more than forty years of experience in the business, agent Lynn Nesbit discusses how she signed some of her biggest clients, how a writer can get an agent’s attention, and what’s wrong with the publishing industry.
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Emory University to Acquire Alice Walker Archive
Emory University announced recently that after ten years of
negotiations it has reached a deal with Alice Walker to acquire the
Pulitzer Prize-winning author's papers. The archive includes journals
and manuscripts dating to Walker’s teenage years in the 1950s and
correspondence with eminent feminists such as Gloria Steinem and Tillie
Olsen, among other artists and public figures. Walker said that Emory,
located in the author’s native Georgia, is "a place where my archive
can rest with joy in the company it keeps," the Associated Press
reported.
Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns Tops 2007 Book Sense Best-Seller List
The American Booksellers Association released recently its 2007 Book
Sense Best-seller list, which highlights the most popular titles sold
at independent bookstores during the previous year. Fifteen books were
featured in the categories of hardcover fiction, paperback fiction,
hardcover nonfiction, paperback nonfiction, children’s fiction, and
children’s illustrated.
James Frey Lawsuit Settled: Judge Orders 1,729 Refunds
On Friday, a federal court judge in New York City approved a settlement
in the lawsuit brought against Random House by 1,729 readers who bought
James Frey's controversial memoir A Million Little Pieces. Those readers, all of whom bought the book before
January 26, 2006, the day the author and his publisher acknowledged
that parts of the book are fictional, will receive a refund. The
settlement will cost Random House $27,348 in refunds as well as over $1
million in legal expenses. The settlement also calls for the publisher
to donate a total of $180,000 to the American Red Cross, the Hazeldon
addiction treatment center, and First Book.
More Fiction From James Frey: HarperCollins to Publish Novel
Less than two years after James Frey admitted to Oprah Winfrey that he had fabricated sections of his memoir A Million Little Pieces, the infamous author is set to publish again.
HarperCollins announced yesterday that it had acquired Frey's third
book, a novel titled Bright Shiny Morning, and plans to publish it next summer.
Chasing the Whale: A Profile of Junot Díaz
Eleven years after the publication of his best-selling debut story collection, Junot Díaz’s follow-up has finally arrived.
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Judge Orders Albert to Pay $350,000 to Film Company
On Tuesday, a Manhattan district court judge ordered fiction writer
Laura Albert to pay a total of $350,000 in legal fees and other costs
to Antidote International Films. Albert, who gained notoriety for
publishing and posing as her alter-ego, JT Leroy, had used the
fictitious name to sign a film contract and tax forms with Antidote
prior to the disclosure of her true identity in 2005. Last month, she
was convicted of fraud and ordered to pay $116,000 in damages.
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