Genre: Not Genre-Specific
PBS to Air Documentary of L.A. Writer John Fante
On December 12 Independent Lens, a weekly program on PBS, will air a documentary of the late novelist John Fante.
Twenty-six-year-old Wins Bad Sex in Fiction Award
Iain Hollingshead, a twenty-six-year-old British novelist, has won the fourteenth annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award for his novel Twenty Something: The Quarter-Life Crisis of Jack Lancaster (Duckworth, 2006).
Philip K. Dick to Be Canonized by the Library Of America
The Library of America, the nonprofit publisher founded in 1979 to "preserve our nation's literary heritage," plans to publish a volume of four novels by cult writer Philip K. Dick next summer.
Indie Publisher Fence Books Joins National Poetry Series
Rebecca Wolff, the founding editor of the literary magazine Fence and the independent press Fence Books, announced yesterday that Fence Books has entered into an agreement with the National Poetry Series (NPS) as a participating publisher.
Mackey and Powers Win National Book Awards
At a ceremony in New York City last night, the National Book Foundation announced the winners of the 2006 National Book Awards.
Dalkey Archive Press Abandons Plans for Move to Rochester
Three months after Dalkey Archive Press announced that it would be moving from its current location in Normal, Illinois, to the University of Rochester, the twenty-two-year old nonprofit publisher of experimental fiction and translations asked to be released from its agreement with the university in upstate New York.
An Interview With Poet Kathryn Starbuck
Kathryn Starbuck has been around poets and poetry all her life, but she never wrote a single poem herself until about seven years ago, when she was grieving over the recent deaths of her parents, brother, and especially her beloved husband, the poet George Starbuck, who died in 1996 at the age of sixty-five, after a twenty-two-year battle with Parkinson’s Disease.
Welsh Writer Rachel Trezise Wins First Dylan Thomas Prize
On October 27, twenty-eight-year-old Welsh writer Rachel Trezise was named the winner of the inaugural Dylan Thomas Prize for her short story collection Fresh Apples (Parthian Books, 2005).
NEA Crosses Borders With Literary Exchanges
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced in September the creation of International Literary Exchanges, a program intended to “expand cultural exchanges between the United States and other countries.” The initiative includes funding for the publication of dual-language anthologies and their distribution in the United States and countries such as Greece, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, and Spain.