This just in from Publishers Weekly: "Vietnamese-Australian writer Nam Le is the second winner of the biannual Dylan Thomas Book Prize, which awards £60,000 ($100,000) to a writer under 30 and working in English." (The full report is here.) Le won for his book The Boat, whose seven short stories travel the globe almost as … Continue reading Up and Coming and in Minneapolis
Little Show on the Prairie
Earlier this week Iowa Public Radio announced that it is canceling the long-running show Live from Prairie Lights, which it coproduced with Iowa City's Prairie Lights bookstore. (The full article is here.) The news prompted an opinion piece in the Iowa City Press-Citizen that could have come right out of The Onion. In a piece … Continue reading Little Show on the Prairie
Man Fails to Bite Dog
Good news. No one showed up to protest a reading by Sherry Jones, author of The Jewel of Medina. The book--which tells the story of A'isha, the youngest of the prophet Muhammad's wives--was originally scheduled to be published in the US by Random House, but the publisher dropped the title from its list after a … Continue reading Man Fails to Bite Dog
Musings from Magers and Quinn 