February 2006, eNewsletter 
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Eat,
Drink and Be Literary Programs at Brooklyn
Academy of Music
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Photo
of Edward P. Jones by Scott Ellison
Smith.
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The
National Book Awards is pleased
to continue its partnership with the
Brooklyn Academy of Music in
hosting a series of literary gatherings
with prominent authors in the BAMcafé.
The 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 work and answering questions from
a guest moderator and audience members;
a book signing will follow.
Featured authors are:
- 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 and music
by Stephen Saperstein, a
pianist and researcher of New Orleans
Music
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For
ticket and pricing information, please
visit the Foundation's homepage at www.nationalbook.org.
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National
Book Award Winners and Finalists at
the Princeton Public Library
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Sorrentino, Steinke and Valentine.
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On
February 16th, 2004 National Book Award
Winner for Poetry Jean Valentine,
2005 Fiction Finalists Christopher
Sorrentino and René Steinke,
and 2004 Fiction Finalist Joan Silber
will read from their work and discuss
the writer's life at the Princeton
Public Library at 65 Witherspoon
Street in Princeton, New Jersey. Moderated
by Harold Augenbraum, National
Book Awards Executive Director. Admission
is free, no tickets are necessary. For
more information, call (609) 924-9529.
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National
Book Awards Campus Programs
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On
March 23rd and 24th, the National Book
Awards will initiate its first National
Book Awards Campus Weekend through
a new partnership with Concordia
College in Moorhead, Minnesota.
On the 23rd, Leo Damrosch, finalist
for the 2005 National Book Award in
Non-Fiction for his biography Jean-Jacques
Rousseau: Restless Genius and
Alan Burdick, finalist for the 2005
National Book Award in Non-Fiction for
his book Out of Eden, will discuss
their books and hold a question-and-answer
session with Dr. Pamela Jolicoeur,
President of Concordia, and Harold
Augenbraum, Executive Director of
the National Book Foundation. The following
morning, both authors will also speak
at a College-wide convocation and will
then give master classes to Concordia
students.
For further information, visit www.cord.edu.
For more information on bringing
National Book Awards Winners and Finalists
to your campus, contact Sherrie Young
at syoung@nationalbook.org.
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Mark
These Dates for the National Book Awards
and other 2006 Events
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- April
1st, National Book Award
Winners and Finalists at the
Brooklyn Public Library featuring
Christopher Sorrentino, René
Steinke
and Lily Tuck
- April
21st, National Book Award
Winners at the CUNY Graduate
Center in New York featuring Joan
Didion and W.S. Merwin
- April
29th, BAMfamily Brunch with
2002 and 2003 National Book Award
Finalist Jacqueline Woodson
and illustrator Hudson Talbott
at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
- October
11th, Announcement of this year's
National Book Award Finalists
in San Francisco
- November
15th, National Book Awards
Ceremony in New York
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Best
adapted screenplay for Oscars
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Oscar
nominations for best adapted screenplay
were announced on Tuesday, January 31st.
Following are the books from which those
screenplays were adapted:
Brokeback Mountain from
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
by E. Annie Proulx (Scribner, ISBN:0684852225).
Also available in a new, stand-alone
edition.
A History of Violence
from the graphic novel of the same name
written by Vince Locke, art by John
Wagner (Vertigo, ISBN:1563893673).
Munich from Vengeance
by George Jonas (Simon &
Schuster, ISBN:0743291646).
Capote from Capote:
A Biography by Gerald Clarke
(Carroll & Graf, ISBN:0786716614).
The Constant Gardener
from the novel of the same name by John
Le Carré (Pocket Star, ISBN:1416503900).
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February
is African-American History Month: Recommended
Reading from the National Book Awards
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During
African-American History Month, you
may want to check out the following
books that were singled out for distinction
by National Book Awards panels the year
they were published:
- Gwendolyn
Brooks, In the Mecca, Finalist
for the 1969 National Book Award
in Poetry
- Ralph
Ellison, Invisible Man, Winner
of the 1953 National Book Award
in Fiction
- Alex
Haley, Roots, Special Citation
from the 1977 National Book Awards
- Edward
P. Jones, The Known World,
Finalist for the 2003 National Book
Award in Fiction
- David
Levering Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois:
Biography of a Race, 1868-1919,
Finalist for the 1993 National
Book Award in Nonfiction
- David
Levering Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois:
The Fight for Equality and the American
Century, 1919-1963, Finalist
for the 2000 National Book Award
in Nonfiction
- Toni
Morrison, Beloved, Finalist
for the 1987 National Book Award
in Fiction
- Toni
Morrison, Sula, Finalist
for the 1975 National Book Award
in Fiction
- Gloria
Naylor, The Women of Brewster
Place, Winner of the 1983 National
Book Award for a First Novel
- Marilyn
Nelson, Carver: A Life in Poems,
Finalist for the 2001 National Book
Award in Fiction
- Orlando
Patterson, Freedom:
Freedom in the Making of Western
Culture, Vol. 1, Winner for
the 1991 National Book Award in
Nonfiction
- Ismael
Reed, Mumbo Jumbo, Finalist
for the 1973 National Book Award
in Fiction
- Alice
Walker, The Color Purple,
Winner of the 1983 National Book
Award in Fiction
- Jacqueline
Woodson, Hush, Finalist for
the 2002 National Book Award in
Young People's Literature
- Jacqueline
Woodson, Locomotion, Finalist
for the 2003 National Book Award
in Young People's Literature
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Giving
to the National Book Foundation
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