Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond's Blog, page 10
April 27, 2015
Six Writers Tell PEN, They Are Not Charlie
The novelists Peter Carey, Teju Cole, Rachel Kushner, Michael Ondaatje, Francine Prose, and Taiye Selasi have declined to attend PEN American Center‘s annual Gala because the organization committed to free expression has decided to laurel the controversial French publication Charlie Hebdo with its 2015 PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage Award. In... Read more.
April 26, 2015
Should Literary Prizes Single Out Early-or Late-Bloomers?
You don’t have to be a young writer to be “emerging”. Life Drawing author Robin Black challenges age-based literary awards in a New York Times op-ed. An excerpt below.
April 25, 2015
Yiyun Li is First Woman to Win Sunday Times Short Story Prize
Yesterday evening at London’s Stationer’s Hall, Yiyun Li accepted��the Sunday Times Award for her short story ���A Sheltered Woman���. She is the first woman to receive the ��30,000 prize. Judge Andrew Holgate tried to explain the inaugural recognition, saying: ���I���ve been a judge for all six awards and it is fitting, after seeing so many... Read more.
Now Authors Can Self-Publish via Books-a-Million
Books-a-Million, America’s second largest bookstore chain, has entered the self-publishing business. Via the company’s new site diy.bampublish.com, authors can choose from publication packages starting at $59 to write, edit, and sell their work in ebook and/or print format on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Ingram and more. Writers can also track sales performance on the... Read more.
April 22, 2015
John Hughes Wrote 'The Breakfast Club' in Two Days
Sometimes your first draft is the best draft. Sometimes.
Adichie & Flanagan Up for Impac Dublin Award
Richard Flanagan���s 2014 Man Booker Prizewinning novel��The Narrow Road to the Deep North��and��Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, which earned the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, have been named to��the shortlist for the 2015 Impac Dublin Literary Award. Rounding out the list (whittled down from a longlist of 142 titles): Mahi Binebine’s Horses of... Read more.
Lynn Keller, Thomas Keymer, & Jeffery Renard Allen Among 2015 Guggenheim Fellows
The 2015 Guggenheim Fellows list is here. This year, 175 Fellows were named including Folio Prizewinner Akhil Sharma, PEN/Faulkner fiction award finalist Jeffery Renard Allen, and Los Angeles Times Book Critic David L. Ulin. Below, is a list of the writers: AMERICAN LITERATURE Lynn Keller Benjamin Reiss Kenneth W. Warren ENGLISH LITERATURE Thomas Keymer EUROPEAN... Read more.
Anthony Doerr Wins 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
For his novel All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr has earned the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, edging out finalists Let Me Be Frank with You by��Richard Ford, The Moor’s Account by��Laila Lalami, and Lovely, Dark, Deep by Joyce Carol Oates. David I. Kertzer’s��The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and... Read more.
Southwest Airlines Introduces In-Flight Book Readings
As part of its “Artists on the Fly” program, Southwest is hosting readings on some of its flights. Eric Greitens, author of the new release��Resilience: Hard-won wisdom for living a better life, is the first to promote his book in the in-flight program which has received mixed��review. Alluding��to��the fearsome experience air travel has become in... Read more.
