Wednesday, September 18, 2013

US National Book Awards Poetry Longlist

Publishers Lunch 

The second of four longlists was announced Tuesday morning -- with 10 poetry collections from ten different imprints:

Metaphysical Dog, by Frank Bidart
Bury My Clothes, by Roger Bonair-Agard
Stay, Illusion, by Lucie Brock-Broido
So Recently Rent a World, New and Selected Poems: 1968-2012, by Andrei Codrescu
Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, by Brenda Hillman
The Big Smoke, by Adrian Matejka
American Amnesiac, by Diane Raptosh
Black Aperture, by Matt Rasmussen
Transfer of Qualities, by Martha Ronk
Incarnadine, by Mary Szybist


Other news:

Two weeks ago James Patterson told the WSJ about his plan to give $1 million to support independent bookstores with a children's section, but the story didn't get much pick-up. Patterson appeared on CBS This Morning with the same pledge and it received more attention. Interested parties were referred to page at Patterson's web site which offers no further details for now, but it does provide a form to submit store names.

The Frankfurt Book Fair's prize for the Best International Literary Adaptation, for a film version of a book, will be presented to Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri (and his co-screenwriter and wife Joëlle Touma) for the adaptation of THE ATTACK by Yasmina Khadra.


Vintage will release a portion of Robert Caro's The Passage of Power as a standalone digital short as the world remembers John F. Kennedy. Titled DALLAS, NOVEMBER 22, 1963, the $1.99 ebook publishes October 1.

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