prizes prizes prizes
Yesterday I wrote about the National Book Award finalists for the LA Times. The day before that, I wrote about the Man Booker Prize for the LA Times. Now, I’m…
Category Archives: awards
Harry upsets at the Tournament of Books
Yesterday I wrote about The Morning News’ Tournament of Books on Jacket Copy. It started interestingly, with both an obvious win and an upset. On the no-duh winning side, big…
Thursday already?
Bloggers barnstorm the National Book Awards: Jason Boog with video, Ed with podcasts & blogging, even Sarah on Twitter. Joan Didion on Norman Mailer: “There was someone who really truly…
LATFOB: awards dinner
Yes I made it form PA to the awards ceremony last night. (winners here) Jim Lehrer was the host; he asked us to think of him as a novelist first,…
mmmmmmm pulitzer
Hooray for Jonathan Gold! The incredible food critic who started out covering taco stands and smoke-choked Korean BBQ joints and pupuserias and tiny Thai kitchens and many more in Los…
More than a fistful of fiction
Thought you knew the 5 finalists for the National Book Award’s fiction pick this year? Think again. Judge Marianne Wiggins reveals the first 5 finalists in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times….
Hooray for Richard Powers!
The Reuters report on the National Book Awards is online. It’s nice to have a sentence or two from winner Richard Powers (a few more sentences, uttered just yesterday; and…
NBA awards update
Not me, I’m working on paper #2 of the three due this week. But Ed’s liveblogging it, with some help from someone on the inside. Apparently Octavian Nothing just took…
How to Booker: skip the MFA
Kiran Desai tried workshopping at Columbia, decided it wasn’t for her (via). Just as she has faltered in accepting American citizenship, she has been unwilling to embrace the American style…
Awards!
The Nobel for literature goes to Orhan Pamuk (via The Millions). The National Book Award finalists have been announced. Is this the first year that a nominee has a myspace…
