Young Adult Novelist's Book Pulled
Saturday April 29, 2006
Following up on the Kaavya Viswanathan story, Little, Brown has asked stores to stop selling her book, "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life," and return ... Read More
Katie Couric Reprimands Young Plagiarist
Thursday April 27, 2006
I just saw on Gawker that on yesterday's Today Show Katie Couric upbraided novelist (and Harvard sophomore, unless she is expelled) Kaavya Viswanathan, author of "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, ... Read More
PEN World Voices: The 2006 New York Festival of International Literature
Monday April 24, 2006
PEN American, one of 141 centers of the organization International PEN, is hosting the New York Festival of International Literature, April 25-30, 2006. The festival gathers writers from around the ... Read More
Late April 2006 Deadlines
Wednesday April 19, 2006
April is slipping away quickly, but there are a still two contests to check out before May: the Tennessee Book Award Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel and the Writecorner ... Read More
Muriel Spark Eulogized in The Times
Monday April 17, 2006
Readers of The New York Times may have caught an obituary for Muriel Spark, the author of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" yesterday. Spark died on Friday at a ... Read More
Laurel Snyder on Anthologies
Sunday April 16, 2006
Anthologies offer writers, acting either as editors or contributors, another way to get their name in front of potential readers. In a new article, "How to Edit (or Submit to) ... Read More
Ruling in Da Vinci Trial
Saturday April 8, 2006
Yesterday the judge in the Da Vinci Code trial ruled that Dan Brown did not plagiarize his bestselling book, The Da Vinci Code, lifting large chunks from the nonfiction book ... Read More
Hundreds Attend Funeral of Irish Writer
Tuesday April 4, 2006
John McGahern, described by the Guardian as Ireland's most important writer of the last fifty years, was mourned on Saturday in his native county of Leitrim. Writers Seamus Heaney and ... Read More
Independent Booksellers Choose The Historian
Tuesday April 4, 2006
Booksense, an online collection of independent bookstores, "both a local and national effort to shine a light on the knowledge and diversity of independent bookstores," has chosen The Historian by ... Read More
Bertelsman Plans Online Book Clubs
Tuesday April 4, 2006
The German media group, Bertelsman, announced a plan to appeal to its older consumers, who number some 35 million, by creating an online network of book clubs similar to the ... Read More
Halifax International Writers Festival
Sunday April 2, 2006
This week brings writers to Halifax for four days of readings and workshops featuring writers Ken Babstock, Joseph Boyden, Lynn Coady,
Dede Crane, Bill Gaston, Brad Kessler,
Stephen Kimber, Ami McKay, Trudy ... Read More