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Book awards honor Colum McCann, Eggers, Vidal

Lifetime achievement winner Gore Vidal envisioned only pulp and dust Wednesday as he contemplated the state of books, while fellow honorary winner Dave Eggers declared that we live in a golden age. The evening's host, Andy Borowitz, joked that the ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, San Francisco Chronicle,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Colum McCann,  Gore Vidal,  Dave Eggers,  Andy Borowitz,  Rosa Parks

Colum McCann novel wins national award for fiction

A novel set in the pre-digital world of 1970s New York City and a biography of one of the city's most famous sons are among this year's National Book Award winners. Colum McCann's "Let the Great World Spin," a novel about daring, luck and ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, eTaiwan News,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Colum McCann,  Gore Vidal,  Dave Eggers

National Book Awards announced

The 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate literature and to wonder about its future. Lifetime achievement winner Gore Vidal envisioned only pulp and dust Wednesday as he contemplated the state of books, while fellow honorary winner ...

From HILLEL ITALIE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Chicago Sun-Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Colum McCann,  Gore Vidal,  Dave Eggers,  Andy Borowitz,  Rosa Parks

Novelist Colum McCann wins book award

NEW YORK—Colum McCann's "Let the Great World Spin," a novel about daring, luck and mortality in 1970s New York, won the fiction prize Wednesday night at the 60th annual National Book Awards. McCann, who has called his book an act of hope written in ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, Boston Globe,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Colum McCann,  Rosa Parks,  Bonnie Jo Campbell,  Daniyal Mueenuddin,  Marcel Theroux

Tales of rich and poor loom large at book awards

NEW YORK—Stories of rich and poor are common themes among Wednesday night's nominees for the National Book Awards. Finalists included Bonnie Jo Campbell's short fiction about hard times in Michigan, "American Salvage"; Daniyal Mueenuddin's tales of the ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, Boston Globe,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Henry Ford,  Bonnie Jo Campbell,  Daniyal Mueenuddin,  Marcel Theroux,  Colum McCann

Karl Rove memoir coming in March

NEW YORK Karl Rove's memoir has a title, "Courage and Consequence," and a release date – March 9, 2010. Rove, the mastermind of George W. Bush's two successful presidential runs and a top White House aide, signed in 2007 with Threshold Editions, a ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, San Diego Union-Tribune,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Karl Rove,  White House,  Simon & Schuster,  Glenn Beck,  Mark Levin

Judge: Obama artist can switch lawyers in AP suit

The street artist known for his Barack Obama "HOPE," image will be permitted to switch attorneys in his copyright fight against The Associated Press, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Shepard Fairey's previous lawyers had sought to withdraw from the ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, eTaiwan News,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Shepard Fairey,  Alvin K. Hellerstein,  George Clooney,  Stanford University

Judge: 'HOPE' artist can switch lawyers in AP suit

NEW YORK - Shepard Fairey has a new legal team and new questions he must answer. The street artist known for his Barack Obama "HOPE" image will be permitted to switch attorneys in his copyright fight against The Associated Press, a federal judge ruled ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Shepard Fairey,  Alvin K. Hellerstein,  George Clooney,  Harvard University

AP asks judge to keep HOPE artist's lawyers

NEW YORK The Associated Press has asked a judge to deny a request by the attorneys of street artist Shepard Fairey to withdraw from his copyright battle over the Barack Obama "HOPE" poster. Fairey's lawyers have asked for permission to withdraw after ...

From HILLEL ITALIE, San Diego Union-Tribune,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Shepard Fairey,  Stanford University,  Harvard University,  George Clooney

Sarah Palin's book tour skirts blue states

NEW YORK — Sarah Palin's book tour is a gift for her base. No stops are planned in Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and other major cities and book-buying communities that are standard for authors on the road, but where the voters ...

From HILLEL ITALIE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The San Jose Mercury News,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Oprah Winfrey,  Amazon.com,  Barnes & Noble, Inc.

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