Random House Named Best Book Publisher to Work For
A recenty study by Book Business titled "20 Best Book Publishing Companies to Work For" ranked Random House, the world's largest English-language trade book publisher, as the best employer.
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Robert Pinsky Hosts Alzheimer's Documentary
Robert Pinsky recently lent his voice to a
documentary film about the work of Memory Bridge: The Foundation for
Alzheimer’s and Cultural Memory in Chicago. Pinsky’s most recent poetry
collection, Gulf Music, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 16.
Novelist Summer Wood Wins $50,000 Gift of Freedom Award
A Room of Her Own Foundation, the nonprofit organization based outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico, recently announced that New Mexico novelist Summer Wood is the winner of its $50,000 Gift of Freedom Award.
Irish Novelist Anne Enright Wins 2007 Man Booker Prize
Forty-five-year-old novelist Anne Enright yesterday won the 2007 Man Booker Prize for The Gathering (Jonathan Cape). Enright lives in Dublin, where she was born, and is the second Irish woman, after Iris Murdoch in 1978, to have won the prize. She received £50,000 (approximately $102,048).
Holtzbrinck Publishers Changes Name to Macmillan
Last week Holtzbrinck Publishers, the company that includes the imprints Farrar, Straus and Giroux, St. Martin's Press, Henry Holt, and Picador, among others, officially changed its name to Macmillan.
Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
The Swedish Academy announced today that novelist Doris Lessing has won the Nobel Prize in literature. She is the eleventh woman to win literature’s biggest prize since the Nobel’s inception in 1901.
Robert Hass, Denis Johnson, Edwidge Danticat Among 2007 National Book Award Finalists
The finalists for the 58th annual National Book Awards were announced today by Camile Paglia at the Library Company in Philadelphia, the oldest circulating public library in the United States.
An Interview With Creative Nonfiction Writer A. J. Jacobs
A. J. Jacobs is an editor at large for Esquire and one of the premiere immersion journalists and humorists working today. His previous book, The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to be the Smartest Person in the World (Simon & Schuster, 2004) recounted his attempt to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. His new book, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible,
published this month by Simon & Schuster, tells about another
quixotic endeavor. Needless to say, it was a difficult one, given the
Bible’s eight hundred explicit rules, many of which are bizarre and
unexplained—no mixed fibers; no touching unclean women—plus lots of
guidelines and suggestions.
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Paramount Delays Release of Film Version of The Kite Runner to Protect Child Actors
Paramount recently announced it will push back the release of the film version of Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel The Kite Runner
(Bloomsbury, 2003), directed by Marc Forster, in order to protect its
child actors whose performances, particularly in a rape scene, could
trigger violence in Kabul. Afghan and American officials, as well as
the actors’ families, have expressed concern that the film may
exacerbate hostility between ethnic groups—the politically dominant
Pashtun and the historically oppressed Hazara.
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