May 2006, eNewsletter 
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Foundation
Welcomes New Board Members
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The
National Book Foundation
welcomes two new board members
this month.
Lynn
Nesbit, literary
agent and partner at Janklow
& Nesbit Associates,
graduated from Northwestern
University and attended
the Sorbonne and the Radcliffe
Publishing Procedures Course.
From 1960 to 1965 she worked
at the Sterling Lord Agency,
and then created the literary
department at what later
became International Creative
Management. In January,
1989, she formed a partnership
with Morton L. Janklow.
Nesbit has served on the
Board of Trustees of Partisan
Review and the New York
Institute for the Humanities.
She is currently a member
of the Board of Directors
of The Journal of Philosophy.
Among her many distinguished
clients are Ann Beattie,
A. Scott Berg, Robert A.
Caro, Michael Crichton,
Joan Didion, Jeffrey Eugenides,
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,
Robert Hughes, Jonathan
Kozol, Jayne Anne Phillips,
Anne Rice, Gay Talese, Gore
Vidal and Tom Wolfe.
Susan
Petersen Kennedy
is President of Penguin
Group (USA). She joined
the company in 1994 and
established her own hardcover
and trade paperback publishing
house, Riverhead Books.
In 1997, following the merger
of Penguin Putnam, she was
appointed Chairman and Publisher
of Viking Penguin. From
1982 to 1992, Ms. Kennedy
was Executive Vice President
of Random House Inc. Kennedy
is a past member of the
Visiting Committee for Harvard
University Press and a member
of the Freedom to Publish
Committee of the International
Publisher's Association,
set up to investigate censorship
throughout the world. She
has served as a board member
of the Association of American
Publishers and is former
chair of its paperback publishing
division. She has also served
as a member of the advisory
board of the Women's Rights
Project, a part of Human
Rights Watch. Ms. Kennedy
is a cum laude graduate
of Vassar College and she
also holds an M.F.A. from
New York University.
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Eat,
Drink and Be Literary Programs
at Brooklyn Academy of Music
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| M.
Gaitskill, photo
Joe Gaffney, J.
Hagedorn, photo
Marion Ettlinger,
N. Krauss, photo
Joyce Ravid
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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.
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For
ticket and pricing information,
please visit the Foundation's
homepage at www.nationalbook.org.
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Foundation
Presents New Program, Readers
in Residence,
Sponsored by Bloomberg
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Recent
studies have shown that
children often stop reading
in the middle-school years.
In order to keep young people
involved with books through
these years, with funding
from Bloomberg, the National
Book Foundation is introducing
a pilot program of flexible
readings designed to reinforce
the idea that reading can
be an enjoyable, interactive,
leisure time activity. Instructors
will be writers with teaching
experience, who will work
closely with the National
Book Foundation and Settlement
House staff on developing
creative approaches to reading-based
activities. All participants
will receive free copies
of the instructor's book,
or a book that influenced
the writer as young reader,
as well as periodicals and
other reading materials
that reflect the children's
lives.
The new program will take
place weekly over three
months, beginning in the
winter of 2007, in the after-school
programs of three New York
City Settlement Houses.
It will include monthly
field trips to bookstores,
libraries and other book
friendly locations around
the city. Each child
will receive a gift certificate
to purchase a book under
the guidance of the writer/teacher,
as well as a map of New
York City "Reading Hot Spots,"
designed by Bloomberg. The
program's results will be
analyzed, evaluated and
published in the hope that
this approach-with modifications
based on the Foundation's
experiences in the project-can
be adapted in after school
programs across the country.
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Small
Presses and the National
Book Awards
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On
Wednesday, May 24th at 3
p.m. Eastern Standard Time,
the Council of Literary
Magazines and Presses
(CLMP) will sponsor an on-line
discussion, moderated by
Harold Augenbraum, executive
director of the National
Book Foundation, on how
small press publishers can
participate in the National
Book Awards and broader
issues of literature in
the marketplace. The discussion
will take place by AOL Instant
Messenger (a free service)
as part of CLMP's
Virtual Roundtables. For
more information and an
invitation to participate,
contact Jamie Schwartz at
212-741-9110, ext. 12 or
by email, jschwartz@clmp.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
- June
15th, Postmark
deadline for Entry
Form for the 2006 National
Book Awards
- September
11th, Commemoration
of 9/11 at the New
School in New York with
National Book Award
Finalists
- September
20th, Announcements
of Master of Ceremonies
for the 2006 National
Book Awards Dinner and
Ceremony, site of the
National Book Awards
Finalists's announcement,
and recipient for the
Medal for Distinguished
Contribution to American
Letters and the Literarian
Award.
- October
11th, Announcement
of this year's National
Book Award Finalists
in San Francisco
- November
14th,
National Book Awards
Teen Press Conference,
Donnell Library, New
York City
- November
14th,
National Book Awards
Finalist Reading at
the New School, New
York City
- November
15th, National
Book Awards Ceremony
and Dinner, New
York City
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Authors
in Schools and Settlement
Houses
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We
are pleased to welcome novelist
Angie
Cruz to our faculty.
Angie is author of two acclaimed
novels, Soledad and
Let It Rain Coffee.
She will be at the Southeast
Bronx Neighborhood Center
the week of May 15th, working
with middle and high school
students. Thanks to Simon
& Schuster for its
generous donation of copies
of Soledad to be
distributed to participants.
Poet
Willie Perdomo
is in residence from May
8th to May 19th at Mott
Haven Village Preparatory
High School in the Bronx.
The residency will culminate
in a poetry slam for the
entire community. Thanks
to W.W. Norton &
Co. for its generous
donation of Perdomo's book
Where a Nickel Costs
a Dime.
Rita
Williams-Garcia
is in residence at I.S.
145 in Jackson Heights,
Queens, for two weeks beginning
May 8th. Students and teachers
are reading Williams-Garcia's
Fast Talk on a Slow Track,
and will have an opportunity
to discuss the book with
her in the classroom and
at a luncheon.
Newbery Award Honor Book
author Jacqueline
Woodson will
spend the week of May 22nd
at Middle School 443/New
Voices School in Brooklyn,
working with students who
have read her book If
You Come Softly.
Thanks to Penguin for
donating both Fast Talk
on a Slow Track and
If You Come Softly.
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For
more information on upcoming
School and Settlement House
programs please visit www.nationalbook.org.
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For
more information about the National
Book Foundation, National Book
Awards, or our events and programs
visit www.nationalbook.org. |
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