Canada's
Big Fiction Prize Grows Canada’s biggest prize for fiction, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, just got bigger. As the 2014 longlist of nominated books was revealed yesterday, the prize’s founder, Jack Rabinovitch, announced that the prize purse will double, to C$140,000. The winner will now receive C$100,000 and each finalist will receive C$10,000. more »
Four
Questions for...Brooklyn Book Festival Host Johnny Temple Publisher Johnny Temple might be Brooklyn's biggest cheerleader. In addition to overseeing one of Brooklyn's best known publishing houses, Temple is also the host of the borough's flourishing book festival. We talked to him about the event--happening this week--and how it's changed, and grown, over the years. more »
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2014 MacArthur
Fellows Named: The artists among this year’s winners include
cartoonist and graphic memoirist Alison Bechdel.
As Big as the
Ritz: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald live on in inspiring new
books.
Austen Fans Set
New World Record: This past weekend, hundreds of Jane Austen
devotees descended upon the British city of Bath to celebrate the author’s work
at the annual Jane Austen Festival—and they set a Guinness World Record in the
process.
The Strand Evacuated
: Tuesday afternoon, an irritant, possibly pepper spray, was
released in The Strand Bookstore in New York City. The bookstore was evacuated,
and those who inhaled the irritant were treated on the scene.
Kerouac Letters
on the Block : Skinner Inc. is auctioning a newly discovered
cache of letters by Jack Kerouac, dating back to 1939.
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