November 2006, eNewsletter 
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GET
READY FOR NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS WEEK |
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5
Under 35: Celebrating the Next
Generation of Fiction Writers
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On
Monday, November 13, the National Book
Foundation will introduce its newest
program "5
Under 35," highlighting
the work of the next generation of fiction
writers.
Five National Book Award fiction finalists
from previous years each selected one
writer under the age of 35 whose work
he or she found to be particularly promising
and exciting. On the 13th, the five
selected writers, Amity
Gaige,
Samantha
Hunt,
Bret
Anthony Johnston,
Rattawut
Lapcharoensap
and ZZ
Packer,
will read selections from their work,
following an introduction by the National
Book Award Fiction Finalist who selected
them, at an invitation-only event to
be held at the Paula Cooper Gallery
in New York.
The event will be hosted by novelist
and founder of the acclaimed Happy
Ending Reading Series, Amanda Stern.
For information on the selected writers
please visit www.nationalbook.org/5under35.html.
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National
Book Awards Teen Press Conference at
Donnell Library Center of The NYPL
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On
Tuesday, November 14, 250 middle and
high school students from New
York City public and independent
schools will interview the 2006 National
Book Award Finalists in Young People's
Literature at the Donnell Library's
auditorium for the ninth National Book
Awards Teen Press Conference.
Students
prepare for the event by reading one
of the five finalists' books, and
drafting questions based on various
aspects of the text, the writing life,
and what it means to be a National Book
Award Finalist. At the event, each student
will receive a professionally designed
press kit with biographical information
on each author, excerpts from their
books, and materials related to the
National Book Awards.
Danyel
Smith, the Editor-in-Chief of VIBE
and a novelist, will emcee the event,
where authors read from their work before
the floor is turned over to the students
for the Press Conference part of the
program. Following the Conference, students
will be invited to meet the authors
at a reception in the Nathan Straus
Young Adult Center of the Donnell Library.
For a full
list of the 2006 National Book Award
Young People's Finalists and their
nominated books, visit www.nationalbook.org.
This program
is made possible by a generous grant
from Con Edison.
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Finalists
to Read at the New School
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Tickets
for the National Book Awards are by
invitation only, but on November 14th
at 7 p.m. at The New School in New
York City, all twenty of this
year's National Book Award Finalists
will appear on the same stage. Emceed
by novelist Nicole Krauss
and hosted by the Director of the New
School Writing Program Robert Polito,
each Finalist will read for five minutes
from his or her nominated work. Though
the event always sells out, as of this
writing a few tickets are still available
from the New School Box Office at (212)
229-5488. The Tishman Auditorium
at The New School is located at 66 West
12th Street, Ground Floor, NYC.
To see a full list of the 2006 National
Book Award Finalists, visit www.nationalbook.org.
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The
57th National Book Awards
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The
National Book Awards Dinner and Ceremony
will take place at The New
York Marriott Marquis in Times
Square on Wednesday evening,
November 15 at 6:30 p.m., hosted by
Fran
Lebowitz. Mark
Doty will present Adrienne
Rich with the Foundation's
Medal for Distinguished Contribution
to American Letters, David
Remnick will present
Robert
B. Silvers and the late Barbara Epstein
with the Literarian Award for
Outstanding Service to the American
Literary Community, and the Foundation's
panel of judges will bestow the National
Book Awards for Fiction, Non-fiction,
Poetry and Young People's Literature.
For more information, call the National
Book Foundation at (212)
685-0261.
The 2006
National Book Award Winners will be
listed on the National Book Foundation's
Web site www.nationalbook.org
between 10:00 and 11:00 p.m. EST. The
Awards Ceremony will be filmed by C-Span
for later broadcast.
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ATTENTION:
Shelf-Talkers for Librarians and Booksellers!
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Free
shelf-talkers are available to highlight
the 2006 and prior National Book Awards
Winners. Call Sherrie Young at (212)
685-0261 or e-mail syoung@nationalbook.org
today to receive your shelf-talkers
by November 15.
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WANTED:
Readers for NBF's New Blog
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The
National Book Foundation's new blog,
written by Harold Augenbraum, the Foundation's
executive director, will focus on all
things literary. The blog's address
is www.nationalbook.org/blog_ha.html.
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National
Book Award Authors Carlos Eire and Jessica
Hagedorn Honored
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Carlos
Eire's Waiting for Snow in Havana:
Confessions of a Cuban Boy has been
selected as Philadelphia's citywide
reading program's featured book
for "One Book, One Philadelphia."
The memoir,
the 2003 National Book Award Winner
in Nonfiction, tells how Eire went from
a privileged life in pre-Castro Cuba
to years of loneliness and uncertainty
in the United
States after he and 14,000 other
Cuban children were airlifted off the
island without their parents. To read
an excerpt of Waiting for Snow in Havana,
visit www.nationalbook.org/nba2003_ceire.html.
Jessica Hagedorn was recently awarded
a fellowship for playwrights in the
amount of $50,000 from the Lucille Lortel
Foundation. Hagedorn's novel, Dogeaters,
was a National Book Award Fiction Finalist
in 1990. She subsequently wrote a play
based on the novel, also titled Dogeaters.
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Eat,
Drink and Be Literary -
Now in Its Third Year
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The
National Book Awards and the Brooklyn
Academy of Music (BAM) will present
nine acclaimed authors for Eat,
Drink & Be Literary: Dinner and
a Reading in BAMcafé. The
events will begin at 6:30 p.m. with
live music and wine-provided by Napa
Valley's award-winning Pine Ridge
Winery-followed by a delicious buffet
dinner in the BAMcafé prepared by executive
chef, Coleman Foster. At 8 p.m. the
literary program begins with authors
reading from their works, participating
in a discussion with the moderator,
and answering questions from audience
members. The Shakespeare & Co. BAMshop
will provide books for purchase and
signing.
The featured
authors and moderators are:
- January
11: Francine Prose, with Brigid
Hughes
- January
25: Pete Hamill, with Brigid Hughes
- February
15: Michael Cunningham, with Brigid
Hughes
- March
8: Jonathan Franzen, with Brigid
Hughes
- April
5: Cynthia Ozick, with Brigid
Hughes
- April
18: Zadie Smith, with Jessica Hagedorn
- May
3: Sandra Cisneros, with Jessica
Hagedorn
- May
17: Gary Shteyngart, with Jessica
Hagedorn
- May
30: Kurt Andersen, with Jessica
Hagedorn
Tickets
are $45 per event, including admission
to the reading, dinner, wine, tax, and
tip. A 20% discount is available
to those who buy tickets to five or
more events. Subscription and
single tickets may be purchased through
BAM Ticket Services 718.636.4100.
Single tickets may also be purchased
online at BAM.org and in person at the
BAM Box Office, Peter Jay Sharp Building,
30 Lafayette
Avenue, Brooklyn. BAMcafé is
on the second floor of the BAM Peter
Jay Sharp Building.
For more information, visit www.bam.org.
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