PEN American Center today announced the winners for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. Among the recipients are Eliza Griswold, winner of the prestigious PEN Translation Prize for I Am the Beggar of the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Tina Howe, who will receive the...
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KOBO Offers Free in Flight eBook Access – 2015
Furthering its promise to enable booklovers to “Read Anywhere,” Kobo, a Rakuten company and leading innovator in the digital reading space, today announced a new partnership with Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. (“GEE”) (Nasdaq: ENT), a market-leading media and...
Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver
Vanishing Girls Lauren Oliver ISBN: 978-0-06-222410-1 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . a compelling story of two sisters." Nicole and Dara are more than just sisters; they are best friends. They were inseparable until Nicole, Nick for short, decides...
Mirror Awards to Honor Late NY Times Columnist David Carr- 2015
Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will honor late New York Times columnist David Carr with the i-3 award for impact, innovation and influence at the annual Mirror Awards ceremony June 11 in New York City. Times executive editor Dean...
KOBO Brings Acclaimed New Yorker to Magazine Store – 2015
For more than ninety years, The New Yorker has been offering a signature mix of reporting and commentary on politics and foreign affairs, popular culture and the arts, and business and technology, as well as humour, cartoons, and fiction. Kobo today announced that the...
Shortlists Announced for 2015 PEN Literary Awards
It is with great excitement that PEN today announces the shortlists for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. After much deliberation, this year's judges have narrowed their longlists down to just five titles across awards honoring fiction, nonfiction, biography, essays,...
Vintage to Celebrate Short Story Month—2015
Vintage Books announced today that its Vintage Shorts imprint will release 31 short story e-Books during the month of May (one each day) to celebrate Short Story Month. Featured selections include short story masters Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, and Alice Munro;...
Khadija Ismayilova to Receive PEN America Freedom To Write Award–2015
PEN American Center announced today that it will honor jailed Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova with the 2015 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award at the annual PEN Literary Gala on May 5, 2015, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York....
The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret
The Seven Good Years Etgar Keret ISBN: 978-1-59463-326-3 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . minimalistic-style narrative leads the reader into winsome paths. . ." In a series of short stories Etgar Keret shares with the reader incidents occurring...
PEN Outraged by Confinement of South African Writer Who Expressed Admiration for Rushdie
PEN American Center expressed outrage today at the harassment and confinement in a mental institution of South African psychologist and novelist Zainub Priya Dala (ZP Dala) exacted in reprisal for her comments in appreciation of the writing of former PEN American...
