July 2006, eNewsletter 
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eNewsletter
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July
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Novelists
Amanda Stern and Darin Strauss Read from Capote's Beloved
Novella BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
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On Thursday, July 27 at 6:30 p.m., leave your "mean reds" at the office and bring a picnic instead to Madison Square Park (23rd Street between Fifth and Madison) for a celebration of National Book Award Finalist Truman Capote's quintessential New York story Breakfast at Tiffany's, hosted by the National Book Awards and the Madison Square Park Conservancy. The evening features New York novelists Amanda Stern and Darin Strauss reading selections from Capote's classic novella. The reading will take place at the foot of Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Farragut Monument, located mid-park at 25th Street, and is free and open to the public.
Amanda Stern is the author of the novel, The Long Haul (Soft Skull Press) and founder of The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series, which she continues to curate and host. It has been voted by New York Magazine, NYPress and The Village Voice as the best reading series in the city. Amanda lives in Brooklyn and is at work on her second novel.
Darin
Strauss
is the author of the international bestseller Chang
and Eng, and the New York Times Notable Book
The Real McCoy, one of the New York Public Library's
"25 Books to Remember." His work has been translated
into fourteen languages, and he teaches writing at New
York University, for which he won a 2005 "Outstanding
Dozen" teaching award. Also a screenwriter, Darin sold
the rights to Chang and Eng to Disney, and is
currently adapting the novel for the screen with the
actor Gary Oldman. He received a 2006 Fellowship in
Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation.
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NEW~
National Book Award Medallion Packages Now Available
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The
National Book Foundation is now offering new rates for
those who wish to purchase in
smaller quantities the
National Book Award Gold Winner seals, the Silver Finalist
seals, and the seal for authors who have received the
Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to
American Letters.
- Package 1 offers 10 Gold Winner seals, 10 Silver Finalist seals and 10 Distinguished Contribution to American Letters seals for $10.
- Package 2 offers 10 Gold Winner seals and 10 Silver Finalist seals for $8.
- In Package 3 you have the option of creating a mix that is suitable for your needs.
For more information visit www.nationalbook.org/medallions or contact Meredith Andrews at mandrews@nationalbook.org.
These seals are great marketing tools for libraries and bookstores with older copies of National Book Award books.
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ATTENTION
PUBLISHERS! |
Publishers who submitted entry forms for the 2006 National Book Awards should send books, bound galleys, or bound manuscripts to judges and the offices of the National Book Awards AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
Please remember that books received after August 15 will not be accepted.
Contact the National Book Foundation offices at nationalbook@nationalbook.org
or (212) 685-0261 if you have any questions.
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National
Book Awards at the First Brooklyn Book Festival
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The
National Book Awards is a cultural partner for the first
Brooklyn Book Festival, scheduled for Saturday, September
16.
In the past few years, Brooklyn has laid claim to being the literary epicenter of the country. To showcase its literary side, Brooklyn's new Festival will present events with such smart, hip, and diverse authors as Jhumpa Lahiri, Jonathan Lethem, Philip Lopate, Touré, and fantasy novelist Holly Black. National Book Award authors Jennifer Egan and Paula Fox will also appear.
The Festival will take place at Brooklyn Borough Hall on Saturday, September 16 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. For more information visit www.visitbrooklyn.org.
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MARK
THESE DATES: 2006 National Book Awards and Author
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July
27th, "Breakfast" Under the Stars at Madison
Square Park. Excerpts from Truman Capote's Breakfast
at Tiffany's will be read.
August 15th, Deadline for National Book Award Judges and the National Book Foundation to receive books bound galleys, and /or bound manuscripts from publishers for the National Book Awards.
September 11th, Commemoration of 9/11 at the New School in New York with National Book Award Finalists and other authors, New York City.
September 16th, Brooklyn Book Festival at Borough Hall from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
September 20th, Public announcement of Master of Ceremonies for the 2006 National Book Awards Dinner and Ceremony, site of the National Book Awards Finalists announcement, and recipient for the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and the Literarian Award.
September 29th, Tribute to National Book Award Winner Maxine Hong Kingston on the 30th anniversary of the publication The Woman Warrior, various locations in New York City, in conjunction with the Asian American Writers Workshop and New York University
October 11th, Announcement of this year's National Book Award Finalists
November 2-4th, the Literary Writers Conference, a program of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, co-sponsored by Donadio & Olson, the National Book Foundation, the New School Graduate Writing Program, and Sobel Weber Associates, Inc., New York City
National Book Awards Week in New York
November 13th, 5 Under 35, a celebration of the next generation of fiction writers, with National Book Award Finalists and Winners
November 14th, National Book Awards Teen Press Conference, at the Donnell Library, sponsored by Con Edison.
November 14th, National Book Awards Finalist Reading at the New School
November 15th, National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner
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NBF'S
Book Donation Bank |
Presenting
educational outreach programs allows the National Book
Foundation to visit diverse communities across the nation
who may not have access to great literature. Frequently,
these communities make requests for book donations that
the National Book Foundation may not always have the
resources to grant. Therefore, we ask our supporters
to donate new or gently used books to the organizations
listed on the National Book Foundation's Web site at
www.nationalbook.org/bookdonations.html.
Before sending books, we suggest you contact the organization to verify the types of books that are most needed.
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