December 2006, eNewsletter 
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eNewsletter
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December
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NATIONAL
BOOK AWARDS WEEK
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photos: Robert Silvers. Richard
Powers, Nathaniel Mackey, Timothy
Egan, and M.T. Anderson. Adrienne
Rich. Fran Lebowitz. Bottom
photos: Mark Danielewski and
Poe. Mark Doty. Lawrence and
Roberta Wright. David Remnick.
photo credit: Robin Platzer,
Twin Images
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The
57th National Book Awards
Young People's Literature Winner,
M.T. Anderson
for The Astonishing Life of Octavian
Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol.
I: The Pox Party (Candlewick Press);
Poetry Winner, Nathaniel
Mackey
for Splay Anthem (New
Directions); Nonfiction Winner, Timothy
Egan for The Worst Hard
Time: The Untold Story of Those Who
Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
(Houghton Mifflin); and Fiction Winner,
Richard Powers
for The Echo Maker (Farrar, Straus
& Giroux).
Over 630 guests and more than 60 journalists
attended the 57th National Book Awards
Ceremony at the Marriott Marquis in
New York
City. Emcee Fran
Lebowitz playfully tweaked
the event organizer's obsession
with timing during the two-hour black
tie dinner and ceremony. Poet Mark
Doty
presented Adrienne
Rich with the Medal for Distinguished
Contribution to American Letters, the
Foundation's lifetime achievement
award, and New Yorker editor David
Remnick presented the Literarian
Award for Outstanding Service to the
American Literary Community to New
York Review of Books editors
Robert Silvers
and the late Barbara
Epstein. Post-Awards parties
were held at the Half King, Sebastian
Junger's bar on West 23rd Street
and in The View, the Marriott Marquis's
rotating bar.
Transcripts of all speeches are available
at www.nationalbook.org.
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The
Finalists Reading at the New School
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Top
row: Young People's Literature
Finalist
Gene Luen Yang receives his medal
from Deborah Wiley, Board Chairman
of the National Book Foundation. Poetry
Winner Nathaniel Mackey and Young
People's Literature Finalist Martine
Leavitt. The
20 Finalists seated in the front row
of the Tishman Auditorium at The New
School, NYC. Bottom
row: Nonfiction
Finalists Rajiv
Chandrasekaran and Peter Hessler.
Fiction Finalist Dana Spiotta.
Poetry Finalist H.L. Hix. Master
of Ceremonies Nicole Krauss. photo
credit: Jennifer Snow |
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Teen
Press Conference at the New York Public
Library
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Top
left photo: Gene Luen Yang (seated).
Right photo: Martine Leavitt (left).
Bottom photo: M.T. Anderson, Nancy
Werlin, Martine Leavitt, Patricia
McCormick, Gene Luen Yang.
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On
Tuesday, November 14th, over 250 middle
and high school students from New
York City public and independent
schools interviewed 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, with special
press kits designed by Mindbolt and
underwritten by Con Edison and emceed
by Danyel Smith, Editor-in-Chief of
VIBE magazine. Following the
Conference, students met the authors
informally at a reception.
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The
Scene @ 5 Under 35
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photo: ZZ Packer, Rene Steinke,
Samantha Hunt, Adam Haslett, Bret
Anthony Johnston, Amity Gaige,
Christopher Sorrentino, Rattawut
Lapcharoensap, and Joan Silber.
Bottom left photo: Adam Haslett
(left) and Bret Anthony Johnston.
photo credit: Jennifer Snow
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Indie
rock, artist Dan Flavin's light
installations in the Paula Cooper Gallery,
and novelist Amanda Stern's
hip charm formed the backdrop for
"5 Under 35", the National
Book Foundation's first presentation
of emerging writers selected by five
former National Book Award Finalists:
Amity Gaige
from Massachusetts,
Samantha Hunt
from Brooklyn,
Bret Anthony
Johnston from Massachusetts,
Rattawut Lapcharoensap
from Brooklyn,
and ZZ Packer
from California.
The Foundation's programs for emerging
writers are supported by a grant from
the Eleanor Franklin Egan Memorial Fund
of The New
York Community Trust.
For information on the selected writers
please visit www.nationalbook.org/5under35.html.
For a photo gallery of "5
Under 35," please visit www.nationalbook.org/5under35_2006.html.
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BookExpo
America Podcasts National Book Awards
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BookExpo
America (BEA) is offering a free podcast
of the 57th National Book Awards, including
the announcement of the National Book
Award Winners and their speeches.
Get the podcast at www.bookexpocast.com.
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Seattle
Honors 2006 National Book Award Nonfiction
Winner Timothy Egan
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Timothy
Egan
photo credit: L. Ciniglio
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A
salute to the 2006 National Book Award
Nonfiction Winner and Seattle
resident Timothy
Egan will be held on
Wednesday, Dec. 13 at Seattle's
Central Library hosted by Seattle
Mayor Greg Nickels, City Council President
Nick Licata, and City Librarian Deborah
L. Jacobs. Egan will read from
his National Book Award-winning The
Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of
Those Who Survived the Great American
Dust Bowl. He is the fourth Washington
state resident to win the Award,
after Pete Dexter (Paris Trout),
Charles Johnson (Middle Passage)
and Theodore Roethke (Words
for the Wind and The Far Field).
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HOT
OFF THE PRESS: Reading Hot Spots
Map (NYC)
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Published
by the National Book Foundation and
Bloomberg
The Reading Hot Spots Map made its debut
in front of hundreds of writers, editors,
publishers, and reporters at this year's
National Book Awards Dinner and Ceremony.
Conceived by the National Book Foundation
and designed in collaboration with Bloomberg,
the maps are part of the National Book
Foundation's "Readers in Residence"
program, an after school program created
to encourage middle school children
to read. The maps will provide young
people and their families with the locations
of New York
City bookstores, libraries and
literary organizations where they can
browse, read and spend time with books.
The maps will be distributed to New
York City public libraries, independent
bookstores, and to targeted schools,
as well as to participants in "Readers
in Residence" and out-of-town visitors.
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Eat,
Drink and Be Literary at Brooklyn
Academy of Music Begins in January 2007
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Francine Prose, Pete Hamill, Michael
Cunningham, Cynthia Ozick, Zadie
Smith, Jessica Hagedorn.
Bottom: Jonathan Franzen, Kurt
Andersen, Gary Shteyngart, Sandra
Cisneros, Brigid Hughes.
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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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Mark
The Date for the 2007 National Book
Awards
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November
14th, National Book Awards Ceremony
in New York
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Giving
to the National Book Foundation
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The
National Book Foundation is a non-profit
organization and depends on the help
of its friends. We hope you will visit
our web-site at www.nationalbookawards.org
to learn more about our work and make
a contribution on-line, or simply click
here to donate
now.
Thank you so much for your interest
in the Foundation's work.
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The
National Book Foundation thanks the following
corporate sponsors for their generous
support.
Barnes
& Noble; Bloomberg; Borders; Central
National-Gottesman Inc.; Coral Graphics;
R.R.
Donnelley; Hachette
Book Group USA;
Ingram Book Group, Inc.; Levenger, Inc.;
W.
W. Norton & Company; Penguin
Group
(USA);
Perseus Books Group; Quebecor World; Random
House, Inc.; John
Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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