Allen Guelzo has won the inaugural Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History for GETTYSBURG: The Last Invasion (Knopf). The $50,000 prize was announced Monday night at a ceremony held at the New-York Historical Society. The Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medal shortlists were announced this morning, with the winners to be named on June 23. Anne Fine, Rebecca Stead, and Susan Cooper landed on the Carnegie list, while Jon Klassen appears twice on the Greenaway shortlist for THIS IS NOT MY HAT and THE DARK (text by Lemony Snicket). Onetime bestselling weight-loss “guru” and infomercial staple Kevin Trudeau was sentenced to 10 […]
Awards
Awards: Self-Published Cookbook Takes Top Honors, and More
The self-published STONE EDGE FARM COOKBOOK, from the Sonoma, CA farm and vineyard of the same name, won the IACP‘s Cookbook of the Year award, along with honors as best first book. The illustrated $60 book appears to be available for sale only directly through the farm. The cookbook awards in approximately 20 categories included an award for best ecookbook, presented to THE JOURNEY, which is “the first edition in the Alta Editions Cooking Series.” With recipes from chefs Katy Sparks, Alex Raij, Maneet Chauhan, Rita Sodi and Kathleen Squires, the series is actually presented as a $1.99 a month subscription. […]
Fink, Adichie Top NBCC Winners
The 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award winners were named at the New School in New York on Thursday night. The winners are: Fiction AMERICANAH, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf) Nonfiction FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL, Sheri Fink (Crown) Autobiography FAREWELL, FRED VOODOO, Amy Wilentz (Simon & Schuster) Biography JONATHAN SWIFT, Leo Damrosch (Yale University Press) Criticism DISTANT READING, Franco Moretti (Verso) Poetry METAPHYSICAL DOG, Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus)
Saunders Wins Inaugural Folio Prize; American Academy Winners; and More
George Saunders has won the first Folio Prize for TENTH OF DECEMBER, just a week after winning the Story Prize. (The collection also garnering a National Book Award nomination last fall.) Folio Prize chair Lavinia Greenlaw said in the announcement: “Saunders’s stories are both artful and profound. Darkly playful, they take us to the edge of some of the most difficult questions of our time and force us to consider what lies behind and beyond them. Unflinching, delightful, adventurous, compassionate, he is a true original whose work is absolutely of the moment.” In other awards news, the American Academy of […]
Zevin’s AJ FIKRY Leads April LibraryReads List
Gabrielle Zevin’s THE STORIED LIFE OF AJ FIKRY, already named the #1 IndieNext pick for April, now also tops the April LibraryReads list. Also appearing is Nina Stibbe’s LOVE, NINA, which is among the 40 titles you can preview right now in our free ebook, Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2014: Spring/Summer. The LibraryReads list also includes: Emma Donoghue, Frog Music Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night Simone St. James, Silence for the Dead Donna Leon, By Its Cover Shane Kuhn, The Intern’s Handbook Colin Cotterill, The Axe Factor Akhil Sharma, Family Life Erin Duffy, On The Rocks
Awards: Women’s Prize Longlist; Windham Campbell Prizes
The UK’s Women’s Prize — once sponsored by Orange, now backed by Bailey’s — announced their 20-title longlist, which will get slimmed considerably to a six-title shortlist next month. At this stage it’s most interesting for the small set of titles for which we could not find any known US publisher yet. They are: The Dogs of Littlefield, Suzanne Berne The Strangler Vine, M.J. Carter Reasons She Goes to the Woods, Deborah Kay Davies Almost English, Charlotte Mendelson Among longlisted titles to be published later in the year in the US, there’s Evie Wyld’s April release, All The Birds, Singing, which […]