Two Literary Laurels
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Lucette Lagnado, a senior special writer and investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal, has won the $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her memoir, âThe Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Familyâs Exodus From Old Cairo to the New Worldâ (HarperCollins/Ecco). Ms. Lagnado was chosen by the Jewish Book Council for âher demonstration of a fresh vision and evidence of future potential to further contribute to the Jewish literary community.â ... Tom Sleigh of Brooklyn, a teacher in the creative writing program at Hunter College, has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his collection âSpace Walkâ (Houghton Mifflin). The annual award, established in 1992 in honor of the poet Kingsley Tufts and administered by Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif., recognizes a poet âwho is past the very beginning but has not yet reached the acknowledged pinnacle of his or her career.â.
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Comment is free: Zoe Williams: The criteria for literary excellence have changed, and cantankerous critics must catch up or shut up.
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Short stories these days are often less formulaic than they used to be, as a new anthology demonstrates.
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"Pegasus Descending" (Simon &amp; Schuster, 356 pages, $26) &#151; James Lee Burke
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Though no one talks about them much, Ernest Hemingway wrote two plays.
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Authors and publishers find that content available for free on the Web can sell quite well between two hard covers.
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A new initiative revives one of the great literary controversies: that the Bard was not who we think he was
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Brian Selznickâs âThe Invention of Hugo Cabretâ won the Caldecott and Laura Amy Schlitz received the Newbery.
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A small group of authors (including a Nobel Prize winner and a couple of perennial best-seller writers) dare to hit the shelves this month.
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Ann Packer follows up her best seller with a second novel of moral complexity.
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When Edward Dusinberre read Philip Rothâs novel âEverymanâ he was struck by what he perceived as its richly musical qualities.
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Edinburgh makes its case to be the first World City of Literature, backed by authors JK Rowling and Ian Rankin.
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Two new books offer correctives to evasions and distortions of the Riefenstahl myth.
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The honour carries a cash prize of 25,000 euros (some $32,000). The awards panel described the book as "a work in which a long history of literary creation and critical and theoretical reflection unfolds with ...
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Some literary-minded bloggers seemed a little piqued at comments on their hobby made by Doris Lessing in her Nobel lecture this month.
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If there is a truth in advertising award for books, specifically book titles, S. L. Price's "Far Afield" is on my short list for 2007 honors. It is literally all over the place, and that's meant as an unqualified compliment.
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Legal debate and lyricism in âMargaret Garner,â an opera imbued with gospel and spirituals.