May 2008, eNewsletter 
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eNews for May 2008
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National Book Award Author Listing Service For Public Libraries
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The National Book Foundation is pleased to announce its new National Book Award author event listing service to public libraries across the country. Public libraries hosting an event featuring a National Book Award Winner or Finalist, past or present, can now list their event on the Foundation’s monthly eNewsletter and our website’s event calendar. Please send details about the event to mandrews@nationalbook.org. National Book Award author events only, please.
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Attention Publishers (Small & Large): The 2008 National Book Awards Publisher's Guidelines Are Available
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SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS JUNE 16!
The
2008 National Book Awards Publisher's
guidelines were mailed in mid-April. If
you are a publisher and have not yet received
your guidelines, send an email to rkeith@nationalbook.org.
Include 'Request for 2008 NBA Publisher's
Guidelines' in the subject line of the
email.
To review the guidelines, visit http://www.nationalbook.org/nbaentry.html.
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The Wisest, Kindest Voice: A Celebration of the Work and Life of William Maxwell
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Presented by The National Book Foundation and the Madison Square Park Conservancy with Christopher Carduff, Benjamin Cheever, Edward Hirsch, Daniel Menaker and Stewart O’Nan July 31, Madison Square Park, NYC In his 40 years (1936-1975) as fiction editor of The New Yorker, William Maxwell worked with some of the most celebrated American writers of the era and was an accomplished writer of six novels (two were nominated for a National Book Award), many short stories, a memoir and a collection of essays. John Updike called Maxwell’s writing voice “one of the wisest and kindest in American fiction.” Friends and admirers of Maxwell celebrate his centenary with a lively evening of discussion and reminiscence. For more information, please visit www.nationalbook.org. Photos: Benjamin Cheever by John Fortunato, Stewart O'Nan by Isolde Ohlbaum, Christopher Carduff by Emily Carduff, Edward Hirsch by Evin Thayer, Daniel Menaker by Chip Cooper
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Philip Roth 75th Birthday Tribute on C-Span
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C-Span Book TV has scheduled Philip Roth's Birthday tribute to be aired on May 10 and May 11. The tribute took place at Columbia's Miller Theatre in New York on April 11 and featured Jonathan Lethem, Nathan Englander and Charles D'Ambrosio discussing Roth's work, as well as writers and critics Hermione Lee, Ben Taylor, Ross Posnock, and Claudia Roth Pierpont discussing their favorite Roth books. The event culminated with remarks by Philip Roth. To view an online exhibit, read highlights and access audio from the event, visit http://www.nationalbook.org. Photos © Nancy Crampton: Philip Roth (l).
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Denis Johnson, Winner of the 2007 National Book Award in Fiction for Tree of Smoke, at the New School, NYC
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Denis Johnson appeared in front of an audience of over 500 people at the New School on April 16. Before reading from his work that will be serialized in Playboy, he told the audience "Pretty literary stuff. But you're sophisticated New Yorkers. You can handle it." A blog by Gregory Cowles in the New York Times, gives a good account of the evening.
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Another Successful NBA Campus Event with Concordia College and MPR
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The National Book Foundation partnered with Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota and Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), to present the third annual National Book Awards on Campus Weekend last March. The event featured Woody Holton, the 2007 National Book Award Finalist in Nonfiction for Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, and Jim Shepard, the 2007 National Book Award Finalist in Fiction for Like You'd Understand, Anyway. and Harold Augenbraum, the executive director of the National Book Foundation. To read a transcript of Holton, Shepard, and Augenbraum’s remarks on the future of literary reading, please visit
http://www.cord.edu/Academics/Events/NBA/speakers1.php. Photo: Woody Holton (l), Jim Shepard (r). Courtesy Concordia College.
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What's
new on
nationalbook.org
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AUDIO
Peter Carey A podcast of an interview with Peter Carey, moderated by Aoibheann Sweeney, is now available. The interview is from the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Eat Drink & Be Literary series that took place on March 20th.
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From our Archives
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John Cheever, 1956 National Book Award Fiction Winner for The Wapshot Chronicle National Book Award Classics: Essays
Honoring our Literary Heritage, will revisit a piece reflecting on John Cheever.
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NBA Author Residencies
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Week of May 19th
Willie Perdomo
Kingsbridge Heights Community Center Week of July 21st
Nina Crews
Kingsbridge Heights Community Center BookUp NYC Field Trip May 17th
CAMBA Renaissance Program
Crown Heights
Harlem Field Trip
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NBF Authors Discuss "The Book That Changed My Life"
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Illuminating the ways the experience of reading can inform -- and even transform -- the act of writing is one of the primary goals of every outreach program sponsored by the National Book Foundation. In this updated feature, some of our nation's most distinguished writers explain the book that changed their lives and why. Find out more. Photos: Gene Yang, Sara Zarr.
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Help Save RIF's Funding
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Please ACT NOW to help RIF continue to build support for its funding. Send an e-mail to your members of Congress asking them to support RIF during the appropriations process. More information is available at rif.org.
Graphic courtesy of RIF.org.
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The National Book Foundation thanks the following corporate sponsors for their generous support.
Barnes & Noble; Random House, Inc.; Bloomberg; Coral Graphics; R.R. Donnelley; Ingram Book Group, Inc.; Lindenmeyr Book Publishing Papers; Penguin Group (USA); Borders; Hachette Book Group USA; HarperCollins Publishers; Levenger; Quebecor World; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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