March 2007, eNewsletter 
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March
2007
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National
Book Foundation Remembers Arthur
M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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by Gretchen Stewart ©
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The
National Book Foundation sadly
marks the passing of Arthur
Schlesinger, Jr.
(October 15, 1917 - February
28, 2007), who won the National
Book Award for A
Thousand Days: John
F. Kennedy in
the White
House in
1966 and Robert
Kennedy and his Times
in 1979. Schlesinger,
who graduated from Harvard
at age 20, was a historian
and public intellectual who
found piercing connections
between the past and the present.
He served as Special Assistant
to President Kennedy, and
during a career that included
more than twenty books, received
many awards for his work,
including the Pulitzer Prize
in 1946 for The
Age of Jackson
and in 1966 for A
Thousand Days.
Arthur
Schlesinger, Jr.’s National
Book Award books:
- 1960
– The
Coming of the New Deal,
1922-1935: The Age of Roosevelt,
Volume
II (ISBN:
0618340866, Houghton Mifflin,
paperback). National Book
Award Finalist.
- 1961
– The
Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936:
The Age of Roosevelt, Volume
III (ISBN:
0618340874, Houghton Mifflin,
paperback). National Book
Award Finalist.
- 1966
– A Thousand
Days: John
F. Kennedy in the
White
House (ISBN:
0618219277, Houghton Mifflin,
paperback). National Book
Award Winner.
- 1974
– The
Imperial Presidency (ISBN:
0618420010, Houghton Mifflin,
paperback) National Book
Award Finalist.
- 1979
– Robert
Kennedy and His Times
(ISBN: 0618219285,
Houghton Mifflin, paperback).
National Book Award Winner.
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National
Book Award Authors Nominated
for the Los
Angeles Times Book
Prize
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The
National Book Foundation congratulates
six of its 2006 National Book
Award authors who were nominated
for the Los
Angeles Times Book
Prize on March 1, 2007 in the
following categories:
Current
Interest:
Rajiv
Chandrasekaran
for Imperial Life in the
Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s
Green Zone (Alfred A.
Knopf).
To read an excerpt, visit
www.nationalbook.org.
History:
Taylor Branch
for At Canaan’s
Edge: America in the King
Years, 1965-68 (Simon
& Schuster). To read an
excerpt, visit www.nationalbook.org.
Lawrence
Wright for The
Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda
and the Road to 9/11
(Alfred A. Knopf).
To read an excerpt, visit
www.nationalbook.org.
Mystery/Thriller:
Jess Walter
for The Zero (HarperCollins
Publishers).
To read an excerpt, visit
www.nationalbook.org.
Young
Adult Fiction:
M.T. Anderson
for The Astonishing Life
of Octavian Nothing, Traitor
to the Nation, Volume 1: The
Pox Party (Candlewick
Press). To read an excerpt,
visit
www.nationalbook.org.
Nancy
Werlin for The
Rules of Survival (Dial
Books for Young Readers, a
division of Penguin Young
Readers Group). To read an
excerpt, visit
www.nationalbook.org. |
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National
Book Award Fiction Winner Richard
Powers at The Morgan
Library & Museum in New
York
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Richard
Powers
Photo: Robin Platzer
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The
National Book Foundation and
the Morgan Library
& Museum co-present
An Evening with Richard
Powers and John Leonard,
on Thursday, May 10, 2007 in
the Gilder Lehrman Hall of the
Morgan Library, 225
Madison Avenue, New York City,
at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets:
$10 members; $15 non-members
Box
Office Telephone: (212)
685-0008, ext. 560
Book
sale will follow program,
not a signing.
Note:
eNewsletter subscribers can
receive the member's price
of $10.00 if they identify
themselves by phone as being
a National Book Foundation
eNewsletter subscriber when
calling the box office. For
on-line ticketing, go through
the process as if a member.
There is no need to enter
any member/subscription number.
Powers,
the 2006 National Book Award
Fiction Winner for The
Echo Maker, will read
from his work, followed by
a public conversation with
writer and critic John Leonard.
Richard
Powers has
been widely acclaimed as one
of the most important novelists
of his generation. He is the
author of nine novels, including
Operation Wandering Soul,
which was a National Book
Award Finalist in 1993. He
has received a MacArthur Fellowship,
a Lannan Literary Award, and
the James
Fenimore Cooper Prize
for Historical Fiction. He
holds a Swanlund endowed chair
and is attached to the Beckman
Institute at the University
of Illinois.
John Leonard recently
received the Sandrof Award for
Lifetime Achievement from the
National Book Critics Circle.
He is currently the book critic
for Harper's magazine,
the television critic for New
York magazine and
a free-lance reviewer for The
New
York Review of Books.
A former commentator on CBS
Sunday Morning,
book critic for The Nation,
and editor of The
New York Times Book Review,
Leonard is the author of 11
books.
To
read an excerpt from The
Echo Maker, visit www.nationalbook.org. |
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National
Book Awards On Campus
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On
April 12 and 13, Concordia College
in Moorhead,
Minnesota, will present
its second annual National
Book Awards On Campus
Weekend featuring Rajiv
Chandrasekaran,
the 2006 National Book Award
Finalist in Nonfiction for Imperial
Life in the Emerald City:
Inside Iraq's Green
Zone, and Ben Lerner,
the 2006 National Book Award
Finalist in Poetry for Angle
of Yaw.
Chandrasekaran
and Lerner will hold master
classes and engage in an evening
of "Readings and Conversation"
with Dr. Pamela Jolicoeur,
President of Concordia. Harold
Augenbraum, the Executive
Director of the National Book
Foundation, will deliver an
address at a College-wide
convocation.
For
further information, visit
www.cord.edu. |
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What is Everyone Reading in
Michigan?
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Kevin
Boyle's Arc of
Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil
Rights, and Murder in the
Jazz Age, the 2004
National Book Award Winner in
Nonfiction, has been selected
by Everyone's Reading, a
community-wide reading
program sponsored by public
libraries in Macomb,
Oakland
and Wayne counties in Michigan.
Similar to other One Book,
One Community programs
across the country, Everyone's
Reading promotes community dialogue
through the shared experience
of reading and discussing the
same book. Arc of Justice
will be the featured book until
April 26.
For
more information visit www.everyonesreading.info.
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National
Book Award Finalist Adapted
for the Stage, Special
Price for eNewsletter Recipients
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Lawrence
Wright's multimedia presentation,
My Trip to Al-Qaeda,
based on his book The Looming
Tower: Al-Qaeda
and the Road to 9/11, a
2006 National Book Award Finalist
in Nonfiction and one of the
The
New York Times Book Review's
"Top 10 Books of 2006,"
plays from March 1 to April
14 at Culture Project in New
York City. Wright
weaves the story of Al-Qaeda's
rise to terrible prominence,
its motives for and implementation
of the 9/11 attacks, and its
future, into a riveting performance,
using video, audio, image, transcript,
and previously undiscovered
evidence.
Culture
Project is an Obie Award-winning
Off-Broadway theater that
creates dialogue about critical
issues by bringing them to
life on stage.
Special pricing for
National Book Award enewsletter
recipients:
Price for orchestra seats
are $35.00, but NBA enewsletter
recipients should use discount
code BOOK to receive a special
discount price of $30.00.
To
order tickets and for more
information visit www.cultureproject.org
or call (212)
352-3101. |
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Eat,
Drink and Be Literary: Dinner
and a Reading Anyone?
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A
few seats are still available
for Eat, Drink &
Be Literary: Dinner and a
Reading series in
BAMcafé. Presented
by the National
Book Awards and the Brooklyn
Academy of Music (BAM), the
events 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.
Schedule of upcoming featured
authors and moderators are
as follows:
- April
5: Cynthia
Ozick, with Brigid
Hughes - a
few seats left
- April
18: Zadie
Smith, with Jessica
Hagedorn - sold
out
- May
3: Sandra
Cisneros, with Jessica
Hagedorn - sold
out
- May
17: Gary
Shteyngart, with
Jessica Hagedorn - a
few seats left
- May
30: Kurt Andersen, with
Jessica Hagedorn - a
few seats left
For
additional information please
visit, www.nationalbook.org
or www.bam.org. |
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National
Book Foundation Podcast Library
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The
National Book Foundation Podcast
Library now
includes authors Francine
Prose and Pete
Hamill from Eat,
Drink & Be Literary,
the series at the Brooklyn Academy
of Music combining food, wine
and readings featuring distinguished
contemporary authors engaging
in dialogue about the "writing
life". In
addition, the BookExpo
site includes
a podcast of the announcement
of the 2006 National Book
Award winners and their acceptance
speeches. |
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Mark
These Dates
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April
12-13, National Book
Awards On Campus, featuring
National Book Award Finalists
Rajiv
Chandrasekaran and Ben
Lerner; Concordia College, Moorhead,
Minnesota.
May
10, National Book
Award Fiction Winner Richard
Powers, interviewed
by John Leonard at the Morgan
Library & Museum in New
York City.
May
31-June 3, Visit
the National Book Foundation
booth at BookExpo, Jacob Javits
Convention Center, New
York City.
Dates
for the 2007 National Book
Awards
April
16, Guidelines and
Entry forms will be mailed
to publishers
June
15, Entry form deadline
August
15, Book submission
deadline
November
12, National Book
Awards Week Begins
November
14, The 58th
National Book Awards |
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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);
The Perseus Books Group; Quebecor
World; Random House, Inc.; John
Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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