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• Featured Artist: Wong L. Cook

  [Jun 29, 2010 | No Comments | News, blog, general, literary news]

  

  Renowned music executive Wong Cook is regarded as one of the prominent leaders in the entertainment industry today. Having over 20 years of experience working in Hollywood, Cook has established herself as a true visionary with dynamic leadership skills whose creative skills and commitment to excellence have enabled her to launch her own empire.

• David Grossman of Israel receives literature peace prize

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  The German book publishers’ association has awarded Israeli author and peace activist David Grossman one of Europe’s most prestigious prizes in the arts, along with a 25,000-euro endowment.

• Prof. Tony Medina Wins the 2010 Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers

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  Dr. Tony Medina, Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Howard University wins 2010 Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers for his latest children’s book, I AND I, BOB MARLEY.

• Nestor Amarilla: Nominated for Nobel Prize for Literature

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  Anthony Carranza interview Nobel Prize nominee Nestor Amarilla in a two-part interview about being nominated for Literature.

• Germany’s ‘literature houses’ stress reading books over selling them

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  Rainer Moritz, the program director at the Literaturhaus Hamburg, says literature houses in Germany are less commercially motivated . . . they are a gathering place, where authors, translators, journalists and critics can meet. Moritz is formed an umbrella organization, Literaturhaus.net, of 11 literature houses across Germany and Austria . . . an idea that is spreading throughout Europe.

• Booktails — Our Favorite Alcoholic Beverages From Literature

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  Sometimes we read things other than the Internet. Especially, when those things (aka books) make us look smart and have cool cocktails in them. This summer put down your beer and get creative with your boozy, dark passenger. Drunkenly slurring with a Pabst makes you pathetic, but slurring with a gin gimlet makes you genteel.

• Germany’s Wawerzinek wins Bachmann literature prize

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  German author Peter Wawerzinek received this year’s Ingeborg Bachmann prize, one of the most important in German literature.

• Compelling Stories, if Not Literature

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  “A poet,” James Dickey once said, “is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.” Should memoirs of illness be held to the same standards as other writing? Or do reader and writer form a different relationship when the health crisis of one becomes the theater of the other, a relationship in which a reviewer has very little business meddling?

• Socially elevating literatures transcend generations: Kanimozhi

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  M. K. Kanimozhi, a Tamil poet, journalist and politician n India, believes literary works that bring in social transformation alone will transcend generations and remain popular.

• Sir Tom Stoppard: Literature and Reading in Danger

  [Jun 28, 2010 | No Comments | Home, blog, feature, general, literary news]

  

  The playwright, Sir Tom Stoppard, speaks of how technology is taking over the lives of kids, leaving them with no opportunity to read or go through literature, which is the real treasure.

• High School Happened” : English Classes Should Assign More Independent Reading

  [Jun 22, 2010 | No Comments | Home, News, blog, feature, general, literary news]

  

  High school students who love to read say that don’t have time because study workload takes away from independent, extracurricular reading.

• Literature’s River Splits In Twain

  [Jun 22, 2010 | No Comments | News, blog, feature, general, literary news]

  

  After all of these years, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is contested in public libraries and classrooms to this day. That this great American novel could ever be suppressed seems unthinkable, what with our current toleration for all manner of pop cultural bilge.

• ‘Books That Changed My World’: Tweeting Meets Literature

  [Jun 22, 2010 | No Comments | Home, News, blog, feature, general, literary news]

  

  Those who think that Twitter is killing the attention span of readers should check out one of today’s big trending topics: “Books That Changed My World” (or, in twitter-speak, #booksthatchangedmyworld).

• Frederick Douglass’s Eloquent Autobiography

  [Jun 22, 2010 | No Comments | Home, News, blog, feature, general, literary news]

  

  John Matteson discusses Frederick Douglass’ proficiency in two genres: the oration and the autobiography, and why his works are so great.

• A Prison Literature Reading List, Medieval and Modern

  [Jun 22, 2010 | No Comments | Home, News, blog, feature, general, literary news]

  

  Prisons have nearly always been spaces of constraint, especially for writers. That freedom, coercion, imagination, and resistance are viscerally evoked in texts concerned with incarceration ranging from the eleventh to the twenty-first century, and in Russian, Italian, Persian, and countless other languages, suggests that there is a coherent genre of prison writing extending across world literature, albeit largely pertaining to the modern period.

• 2010 top ten trends in academic libraries

  [Jun 22, 2010 | No Comments | Home, News, blog, feature, general, literary news]

  

  The ACRL Research, Planning and Review Committee, a component of the Research Coordinating Committee, develops a list of the top ten trends that are affecting academic libraries now and in the near future.

• Dutch writer wins world’s ‘biggest literature prize’

  [Jun 22, 2010 | No Comments | Home, News, blog, feature, general, literary news]

  

  Dutch writer Gerbrand Bakker has won the €100,000 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his first novel Boven is het stil, translated into English as The Twin.