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 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;...
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 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 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...
The 2015 National Book Awards entry form is open and available exclusively online at nationalbook.org until May 15, 2015, midnight PT. No late entries will be accepted. To determine eligibility, learn costs, and understand NBA submission rules, read the NBA...
Revenues increase 3.1 percent to €16.7 billion Operating EBITDA grows 2.7 percent to €2.37 billion Group profit affected by special items Investments continue at high level and hit €1.6 billion Advances in strategy implementation improve growth profile Merger of...
Bertelsmann is making another investment in its strategic growth business of education. The international media, services, and education company is significantly increasing its direct shareholding in Synergis Education, a university services provider in the United...
“Elegy on Kinderklavier,” a book by Arna B. Hemenway, M.F.A., assistant professor in the department of English in Baylor’s College of Arts & Sciences, has been awarded the 2015 PEN/Hemingway Award for a distinguished first work of fiction, the largest award for...
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) announced today that Executive Director Len Vlahos will resign his position effective June 12, and will relocate to Denver, Colorado where he and his wife will join the senior management team of the Tattered Cover bookstores and...
