January 2006, eNewsletter 
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January
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Eat,
Drink and Be Literary Programs
at Brooklyn Academy of Music
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Beginning
this month, for the second year,
the National Book Awards will
partner with Brooklyn Academy
of Music to host a series of literary
gatherings with prominent authors
in the BAMcafé. The nine
evenings, entitled "Eat, Drink,
& Be Literary: Dinner &
a Reading at BAMcafé," will
offer literary enthusiasts the
chance to meet, eat, and talk
before each reading in an informal
setting which will include a buffet
dinner and wine.
Each evening will begin at 7 p.m.
(doors open at 6:30 p.m.) with
a sumptuous dinner created by
BAMCafé restaurateur Great Performances
executive chef Carlos Baca, with
premium wine provided by Napa
Valley's award-winning Pine Ridge
Winery and live musical accompaniment.
At 8 p.m. the literary program
begins with the author reading
from his or her works and answering
questions from a guest moderator
and audience members; a book signing
will follow.
Featured authors are:
- January
12th, Gish Jen, interviewed
by Kurt Andersen, with music
by pianist Ari Scott
- January
26th, Julian Barnes,
interviewed by Kurt Andersen,
with music by Yacouba Sissoko,
a master kora player from
the Djely griot tradition
- February
9th, Caryl Phillips,
interviewed by Kurt Andersen,
with music by Kevin So
- February
23rd, Jonathan Safran Foer,
interviewed by Kurt Andersen,
with music by cellist Rubin
Kodheli and guitarist Kyle
Sanna
- March
16th, John Sayles,
interviewed by Jessica Hagedorn,
with music to be announced
- April
6th, Julia Alvarez,
interviewed by Jessica Hagedorn,
with music by Rubin Kodheli
and Kyle Sanna
- April
20th, Jonathan Lethem,
interviewed by Jessica Hagedorn,
with music by Carl Riehl,
a pianist, accordionist, composer
and arranger
- May
18th, Mary Gaitskill,
interviewed by Jessica Hagedorn,
with music by Anaïs Alexandra
Tekerian, a pianist touring
with the Armenian a capella
group Zulal
- June
1st, Nicole Krauss,
interviewed by Jessica Hagedorn,
with music by Stephen Saperstein,
a pianist and researcher of
New Orleans Music.
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For
more information on these authors
and tickets to the events, visit
BAM.org. |
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National
Book Award Winners and Finalists
in Libraries
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On
Thursday evening, February
16th, Princeton Public Library,
at 65 Witherspoon Street in Princeton,
New Jersey, will host 2004 National
Book Award Winner for Poetry Jean
Valentine (Door
in the Mountain), 2005 Fiction
Finalists Christopher
Sorrentino (Trance)
and René
Steinke (Holy Skirts),
and 2004 Fiction Finalist Joan
Silber (Ideas of
Heaven) who will discuss the
writer's life and the impact of
the National Book Awards on their
careers. National Book Awards
Executive Director Harold Augenbraum
will moderate. For more information,
call (609) 924-9529, extension
257 or visit the Princeton Public
Library web site at princetonlibrary.org.
On Saturday afternoon, April
1st, Brooklyn Public Library,
Grand Army Plaza, will host 2004
National Book Award Winner for
Fiction Lily
Tuck (The News from
Paraguay), and 2005 Fiction
Finalists Christopher
Sorrentino (Trance)
and René
Steinke (Holy Skirts).
Harold Augenbraum will moderate
this reading and discussion as
well. Further information will
be available on the Foundation's
Web site in early February.
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National
Book Award Winners and Finalists
Appear in Paperback
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Fiction
- William
T. Vollmann, Europe Central
(Viking) - Currently available
- E.L.
Doctorow, The March (Random
House) - September, 2006
- Christopher
Sorrentino, Trance (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux) - April
18, 2006
- René
Steinke, Holy Skirts
(William Morrow) - Currently
available
Nonfiction
- Alan
Burdick, Out of Eden: An
Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- May 2, 2006
- Jim
Dwyer and Kevin Flynn, 102
Minutes: The Untold Story
of the Fight to Survive Inside
the Twin Towers (Times
Books) - January 14, 2006
- Adam
Hochschild, Bury the Chains:
Prophets and Rebels in the
Fight to Free an Empire's
Slaves (Houghton Mifflin)
- Currently available
Poetry
- John
Ashbery, Where Shall I
Wander (Ecco) - March,
2006
- Frank
Bidart, Star Dust: Poems
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- June 13, 2006
- Brendan
Galvin, Habitat: New and
Selected Poems, 1965-2005
(Louisiana State University
Press) - Currently available
- Vern
Rutsala, The Moment's Equation
(Ashland Poetry Press)
- Currently available
Young
People's Literature
- Jeanne
Birdsall, The Penderwicks
(Alfred A. Knopf Books
for Young Readers) - March,
2007
- Walter
Dean Myers, Autobiography
of My Dead Brother (HarperTempest
Amistad) - November, 2006
- Deborah
Wiles, Each Little Bird
That Sings (Harcourt)
- August, 2006
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Mark
These Dates for the 2006 National
Book Awards
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October
11th, Announcement
of this year's National Book Award
Finalists in San Francisco.
November
15th, National Book
Awards Ceremony in New York City. |
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Giving
to the National Book Foundation
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on the help of its friends. We
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