April 2006, eNewsletter 
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AN
EVENING WITH JOAN DIDION AND W.S.
MERWIN
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On
Friday, April 21, Joan
Didion
and W.S.
Merwin will appear
at CUNY Graduate Center, New York.
Ms. Didion, the 2005 National
Book Award Winner in Nonfiction
for The Year of Magical
Thinking, and Mr. Merwin,
the 2005 National Book Award Winner
in Poetry for Migration:
New and Selected Poems, will
discuss the writing life and read
from their work.
The event will culminate in a
book signing and reception.
Moderated
by Nancy K. Miller, Distinguished
Professor of English, The Graduate
Center, CUNY
The Center for the Humanities,
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 5th Ave. (at 34th St), New
York, NY
Free
admission.
Seating available on a first come,
first served basis.
For information, call The Center
for the Humanities, CUNY
at 212-817-2005, or visit http://web.gc.cuny.edu/humanities/index.html.
NATIONAL
BOOK AWARD FEATURED WRITER FOR
NATIONAL POETRY MONTH
With a writing career that spans
over five decades, W.S.
Merwin has published
dozens of books of poetry, prose,
drama, and translation.
Since the publication of his first
book, A Mask for Janus,
chosen by W. H Auden, and published
in 1952 in the Yale Younger Poets
series, Merwin has gone on to
receive numerous awards and fellowships,
including the Aiken Taylor Award
for Modern Poetry, the Pulitzer
Prize in Poetry, the Tanning Prize
for mastery in the art of poetry,
the Bollingen Award, the Ruth
Lilly Poetry Prize, and fellowships
from the Rockefeller and the Guggenheim
Foundations and the National Endowment
for the Arts. In addition, he
won the 2005 National Book Award
in Poetry for Migration: New
& Selected Poems.
In 1999, W.S. Merwin was named
Poetry Consultant to the Library
of Congress along with poets
Rita Dove and Louise Glück. He
is a former chancellor of The
Academy of American Poets.
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NOT
JUST A READING: Family
Book Brunch with
Jacqueline Woodson
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On
Saturday, April 29th Jacqueline
Woodson, two-time National
Book Award Finalist for Young
People's Literature and the recipient
of the 2006 Margaret A. Edwards
Lifetime Achievement Award for
outstanding contribution to writing
for teens, and illustrator
Hudson Talbott will read from
Show Way, their Newbery
Honor book. Following
the reading, Woodson and Talbott
will discuss their collaboration,
their creative process, and their
careers.
Location:
Brooklyn Academy of Music,
New York
Time:
12 - 2pm
To
purchase tickets and for more
information call 718.636.4100
or visit http://www.bam.org/education/bamfamily.aspx.
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Eat,
Drink and Be Literary Programs
at Brooklyn Academy of Music
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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.
- 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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Mark
These Dates for the National Book
Awards and other 2006 Events
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- Mid-April,
2006 National Book
Awards Publisher's Guidelines
are available
- 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 National Book Award Finalist
Jacqueline Woodson and illustrator
Hudson Talbott at the Brooklyn
Academy
of Music,
New
York
- May
3rd, National Book Award
Finalists Cristina Garcia
and Jessica Hagedorn
and author Karen Tei Yamashita
will participate on a panel
at the Asia Society in
New York City. The panel
will discuss the role of Asia,
Spain and the Americas in
their writing and will be
moderated by Harold Augenbraum,
the executive director of
the National Book Foundation.
- 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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National
Book Awards on Campus
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Last
month, as part of the Foundation's
first campus partnership, National
Book Award Finalists Alan
Burdick
(Out of Eden) and Leo
Damrosch
(Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless
Genius) joined National Book
Foundation Executive Director
Harold Augenbraum for two days
at Concordia College in Moorhead,
Minnesota. Concordia's Celebration
of Excellence featured talks
on the theme of excellence by
Burdick and Damrosch to crowds
of 250 and 400, and all three
participated in a roundtable discussion
about the writing life, moderated
by Pamela Jolicoeur, Concordia's
President, which was webcast on
Concordia's and the Foundation's
websites. They also met with students,
presented two master classes each,
and signed books during Concordia's
National Book Awards weekend.
For more information on National
Book Foundation campus partnerships
or to discuss bringing National
Book Award Winners and Finalists
to your campus, call Sherrie Young
at (212) 685-0261 or email syoung@nationalbook.org.
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Authors
in Schools and Settlement Houses
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AUTHORS
in NEW YORK'S SETTLEMENT HOUSES
The National
Book Foundation is sponsoring
two Settlement House residencies
the week of April 24 - 28.
Poet and children's book author
Willie Perdomo will be
at the Riverdale Neighborhood
House in the Bronx, working
with teens and elementary school
children. The teens will
read Willie's poetry collection
Where a Nickel Costs A Dime
(W.W. Norton & Co.) and the
younger children will read his
picture book Visiting Langston
(Henry Holt & Co.).
Our thanks to W.W. Norton &
Co. and Henry Holt and Co. for
their generous book donations.
Children's book author and fine
artist Nina Crews will
be at the Center for Family
Life in Brooklyn the same
week, working with 250 elementary
school age children in their after
school program. In advance of
Nina's residency, each child will
receive a free copy of The
Neighborhood Mother Goose
courtesy of
HarperCollins, her beautifully
illustrated version of this childhood
classic, updated for 21st century
children.
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For
more information on upcoming school
and Settlement House programs
please visit the Foundation's
website, www.nationalbook.org. |
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