Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
This installment of Page One features excerpts from The Exquisite by Laird Hunt and A Three Dog Life by Jack Pendarvis.
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Albert Camus's The Stranger Among Books on President Bush's Reading List
The White House press office recently released a list of books that President George W. Bush is reading this summer. Kenneth T. Walsh, in an article in U.S. News and World Reports, writes that White House staffers have said the president is engaged in an informal contest with senior adviser Karl Rove to see who can read more books this year.
Google Book Search May Have Competition
LibreDigital, the company currently digitizing books and audiobooks published by HarperCollins, recently announced that it will offer its service to other book publishers as well.
Knopf VP Fisketjon Wins Maxwell E. Perkins Award
Noreen Tomassi, the executive director of the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction, announced on August 23 that Gary Fisketjon, the vice president and editor-at-large of Knopf, is the winner of the second annual Maxwell Perkins Award for his work as an editor at Random House, Vintage, Atlantic Monthly Press, and Knopf.
Billy Collins, David Mitchell, Joan Didion Among Nominees for Second Annual Quills
On August 22, at a Borders Books and Music store in New York City, NBC
weatherman Al Roker announced the nominees for the second annual Quill
Book Awards. The prizes, given in nineteen categories for adult and
children's literature, are sponsored by NBC Universal Television
Stations and Reed Business Information. The public will determine the
winners by voting at the Quill
Web site. The awards, which carry no cash value, will be handed out at
a televised ceremony on October 10 at the American Museum of Natural
History in New York City.
Carey, Grenville, and Mitchell Among Booker Prize Semifinalists
On August 14 the judges of the 2006 Booker Prize announced a list of nineteen semifinalists. The annual prize, worth £50,000 (approximately $94,900), is sponsored by the Man Group investment company and is given for the best novel of the year by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or Ireland.
German Novelist Günter Grass Admits Service in the Nazi SS
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Günter Grass recently revealed that he served in the Waffen Schutzstaffel (SS), the elite military combat wing of the Nazi party.
Dan Brown, J. K. Rowling Among Highest Earning Celebrities
Five authors are among this year's Celebrity 100, a ranking of the highest earning and most popular celebrities in the world, published annually by Forbes magazine.
Poet James Arthur Wins Amy Lowell Scholarship
Poet James Arthur recently received the $47,000 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.
Amazon Options Screen Rights To Keith Donohue's Debut Novel
Amazon.com recently optioned screen rights to Keith Donohue's best-selling debut novel The Stolen Child (Nan A. Talese, 2006). It is the online retailer's first venture into feature films and the creation of content not limited to its Web site.
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