BookClubClassics.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
photo credit: tonystl My friend Monica recently sent me an interesting article from the Star Tribune to kick off Book Award Season! Since I have readers from around the world, I would love to hear not only how Americans view themselves through literature, but the global perspective, too. And, more importantly, how much should the [...]
Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | yesterday
I would be surprised if this year's Nobel Prize for Literature goes to any English language writer, for Doris Lessing won the award last year and English language writers have been getting the award every alternate year since 2001 when...
MSNBC.com: Today (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
The 2008 winner of the Nobel Prize in literature will be presented on Oct. 9, the Swedish Academy said, completing the schedule of this year's Nobel announcements.
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Alfred Nobel father of the Nobel Prize in literature invented dynamite. And this past week, the top member of the jury in that competition lit a few fuses and set off some charges. Horace Engdahl said American writers are "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture" and that drags down the quality of their writing. He added that the "ignorance" of American writers is "restraining."
Cynical-C Blog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
From The Guardian: Permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Horace Engdahl told the Associated Press that US writers were "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture", which he said dragged down the quality of their work. "The US is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't ...
Put An End To War (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Art Is Not A Luxury ~ Art is a way of life! This year's election... *I would like to hear what Toni Morrison has to say about the Arts in Canada... Mr. Harper is wrong: There is more to the arts than "a bunch of rich people at galas whining about their grants." ~ To be creative is, in fact, Canadian. Many artists in Canada operate outside of the grant system working second jobs to support their endeavours,...
Isak (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
That's what the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy thinks.Speaking generally about American literature, however, (Horace Engdahl) said U.S. writers are "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture," dragging down the quality of their work. "The U.S. is...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Stockholm - The permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, the body that awards the coveted Nobel Literature Prize, underlined Wednesday the prize was not a contest between nations. In a brief statement Horace Engdahl said the Academy - in accordan...
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Are American writers too insular and ignorant to be in contention for the Nobel? (Allow me a moment of incredulity before I comment: Ahem? *cough*ROTH?*cough*) Of course, this has set off a shitstorm in RahRahLand, where any slightly critical word sets everyone running for a set of pompoms to start pantomiming the letters U! S! [...]
Book Chronicle (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
I thought this round of Weekly Geeks, picking my 10 favorite books that came out in 2008, would be terribly easy. That’s because I didn’t believe I had even read 10 new books. I ended up with 16 on the list and the following is the result of far too much labor and thought! My 10 [...]
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Writing the World To the Best of Our Knowledge (Wisconsin Public Radio) Host: Jim Fleming SEGMENT 1: Sherman Alexie has written novels, film screenplays and a short story collection. He talks with Steve Paulson about being a Native American writer. And, Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "The Color Purple." She talks with Jim Fleming about "Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth,"...
BookClubClassics.com (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
photo credit: babasteve In celebration of the official start of fall today (or spring for our friends south of the equator!), here’s USA Today’s list of fall picks sure to get book clubs talking… I’ll throw in my own two cents, too! First, here’s USA Today’s premise behind the list: Oprah Winfrey and book clubs across America [...]
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Filed under: Entertainment Newswire , Entertainment Black Voices Blogs : By Karu F. Daniels, BlackVoices.comThe companion coffee table book to the critically acclaimed HBO documentary of the same name, 'The Black List,' arrived in bookstores and became available at online outlets on Sept. 16.And just like the remarkable... Read more
The Career Encouragement Blog (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
In mid-August I left for a 2-week overseas vacation. 2 glorious weeks with family and no e-mail or voice mail! I was so relaxed when I returned that I extended my that marvelous "vacation glow" by not being particularly ambitious...
Book Chronicle (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
“You can think what I tell you a confession, if you like, but one full of curiosities familiar only in dreams and during those moments when a dog’s profile plays in the steam of a kettle.” Narrated during the late 17th Century, Toni Morrison’s latest novel A Mercy follows the interweaving lives of six characters to [...]
