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eNewsletter
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July
2007
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REMINDER:
AUGUST
15 IS THE DEADLINE FOR JUDGES TO RECEIVE
BOOKS, BOUND GALLEYS, OR BOUND MANUSCRIPTS
FOR THE 2007 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
The
deadline for judges to receive books listed
on the Entry Forms for the 2007 National
Book Awards is Wednesday, August 15, 2007.
Please note that this is not a postmarked
deadline. In addition, one submitted copy
of each book, bound galley, or bound manuscript
must be sent to the National Book Foundation
office. Judges’ addresses are listed
on the Publishers Guidelines. If you are
a publisher and need the addresses, please
call the Foundation’s office at
212-685-0261.
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New
Website Highlights National Book Awards'
History
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The National Book Foundation is proud
to announce its new and improved website,
www.nationalbook.org.
Visitors will notice the site's
clear, easy navigation and a growing
archive of images showcasing National
Book Award winning authors such as
Ralph Ellison,
Susan Sontag,
and Norman
Mailer. Podcasts of Pete
Hamill, Jonathan
Franzen and Gary
Shteyngart speaking
about their work and their writing
careers are the most recent additions
to the site.
As we continue to digitize our archives,
the Foundation will post these images
to the site to highlight 58 years
of National Book Award history.
Currently, as
part of a new slide show on the
Awards' history, visitors
can view unique images of Lauren
Bacall with Betty Friedan,
Christopher
Reeve giving a speech at
the Awards, E.L.
Doctorow accepting the National
Book Award in fiction for World's
Fair
in 1986, and a telegram from President
John F. Kennedy congratulating the
1962 Winners. Future images will
include invitation lists, programs,
and press releases from past National
Book Award ceremonies, and original
book covers of nominated books.
We invite you to explore our new
website at www.nationalbook.org.
For permission to reprint photos
or other digitized images, please
contact Harold Augenbraum at haugenbraum@nationalbook.org.
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Celebrating
the Work of Frank
O'Hara with Poets Billy
Collins and Paul Violi at Madison
Square Park on August 2
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Frank
O'Hara (upper left),
Photo © Ken Elmslie;
Billy
Collins (upper right),
Photo © Barbi Reed; Paul
Violi (bottom right); Craig
Morgan Teicher (bottom left).
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The
National Book Foundation teams up
with the Madison
Square Park Conservancy to
present “A Strictly New
York Joie de Vivre: Celebrating
the Work of Frank O’Hara.”
Frank O’Hara, awarded the National
Book Award for Poetry posthumously
in 1972, was a key figure in the postwar
New York School of poets and painters.
O’Hara’s influence on
succeeding generations of poets and
the cultural landscape of New
York City is undeniable. Billy
Collins, former Poet Laureate
of the United States, and Paul Violi
will read from O’Hara’s
work and their own and discuss O’Hara’s
continuing influence on contemporary
poetry and the literary culture of
New York
City on Thursday, August
2, 6:30 p.m. at Madison
Square Park (on 23rd
Street between Fifth and Madison).
Poet and critic Craig Morgan Teicher
will moderate the event.
For
more information visit www.nationalbook.org.
For a listing of the entire Madison
Square Reads series visit www.madisonsquarepark.org. |
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Congratulations
to Rajiv
Chandrasekaran, author of
Imperial Life in the Emerald
City: Inside Iraq's Green
Zone
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Rajiv
Chandrasekaran won Britain's
BBC Samuel
Johnson nonfiction prize for
Imperial Life in the
Emerald
City: Inside Iraq's Green
Zone, which was a National Book
Award finalist in 2006 for the same
genre. Chandrasekaran's book gives
an unprecedented account of life in
Baghdad's Green Zone and of the
occupational administration that was
chosen for its loyalty to the Bush
administration. Imperial Life
in the Emerald
City is slated to be adapted
as a movie,
starring Matt
Damon.
To read an excerpt of Imperial
Life in the Emerald
City, please visit www.nationalbook.org.
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MARK
THESE DATES: 2007
National Book Awards and Author Events
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- August
2nd,
A
Strictly New
York Joie de Vivre: Celebrating
the Work of Frank
O'Hara at
Madison
Square Park with poets
Billy
Collins and Paul Violi,
New
York City
- August
28th,
Young Adult Author
Patricia McCormick, author
of SOLD, at Concordia
College, Moorhead, Minnesota
Dates
for the 2007 National Book Awards
- August
15th, Book
submission deadline
- October
10th, Announcement
of this year's National Book
Award Finalists
in Philadelphia
- November
12th, National
Book Awards Week Begins with 5
Under 35,
a celebration of the next generation
of fiction writers
- November
13th, National
Book Awards Teen Press Conference
- November
13th, National
Book Awards Finalist Reading
- November
14th, 58th
National Book Awards
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The
National Book Foundation thanks the
following sponsors for their generous
support:
Barnes
& Noble; Theodore
H. Barth Foundation; Bloomberg;
Borders; Central National-Gottesman
Inc.; Coral Graphics; R.R.
Donnelley; Educational
Foundation of America; Hachette
Book Group USA; Ingram Book Group, Inc.;
Levenger, Inc.; National
Endowment for the Arts; National Endowment
for the Humanities;
W.
W. Norton & Company; Penguin
Group
(USA);
The Perseus Books Group; Quebecor World;
Random House, Inc.; John Wiley &
Sons, Inc.
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