New Esquire Fiction Editor Promises More Short Stories
The monthly men’s magazine Esquire announced last week that its newly hired fiction editor, Tom Chiarella, will publish twice as many original stories next year as were published in 2006.
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Amazon, Penguin, Publishers Weekly, and Readers to Judge Novel Contest
Amazon.com recently launched the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest, which will allow the public to weigh in on the selection process. The winning author will receive a $25,000 advance and publication by Penguin.
Penguin and Amazon Form Online Classics Reading Group
Penguin and Amazon.com recently partnered to create the Penguin Classics Reading Group, a regular online discussion of titles in the paperback line of Penguin Classics.
New Arts Organization tto Award $50,000 Individual Fellowships
A new charitable arts organization called United States Artists (USA) announced last month that it will award annual grants of fifty thousand dollars each to fifty artists from around the country, including poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers.
Fire at Folger Shakespeare Library Extinguished Without Harm to Rare Books
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington reported yesterday that a fire broke out in a costume storage area on the third floor above the Folger Theatre on Monday morning. The fire, which was discovered by an electrician at approximately 9:30 AM, was safely contained and extinguished.
Graduate Student Rediscovers Robert Frost Poem From 1918
On October 2 the Virginia Quarterly Review published a previously unknown poem by Robert Frost.
Kiran Desai Becomes Youngest Woman to Win the Booker Prize
Salman Rushdie Joins Faculty of Emory University in Atlanta
Emory University in Atlanta announced on October 6 that Salman Rushdie, the former president of PEN American Center and the author of Midnight's Children (Jonathan Cape, 1980), The Satanic Verses (Viking, 1988), and most recently, Shalimar the Clown (Random House, 2005), has accepted a five-year teaching position in the university's English department.
Bush to Nominate NEA's Gioia for Second Term as Chairman
The Associate Press reported on September 28 that President Bush plans to renominate Dana Gioia for a second term as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Gioia took office in 2003, succeeding Michael P. Hammond, who died seven days after assuming his duties in 2002.
Brown Universty Hosts Three-day Festival to Celebrate Conjunctions Anniversary
John Ashbery, Robert Coover, Ann Lauterbach, Jonathan Lethem, Joyce Carol Oates, and John Edgar Wideman are just a few of the poets and fiction writers who will give readings and participate in roundtable discussions during a three-day festival hosted by Brown University...
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