CHRIS BECKETT WINS ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD FOR DARK EDEN
Author Chris Beckett, a part-time lecturer in social work, beat some of science fiction’s best-known writers, including Kim Stanley Robinson and Ken MacLeod, to take the prize. Given to the […]
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£188M BIRMINGHAM LIBRARY PROJECT READY FOR FINISHING TOUCH – 2.3M BOOKS
On time and slightly under budget, the builders who have been working in Birmingham on the biggest public cultural project in Britain packed up and cleared out on Monday in […]
ARGENTINA’S ISOL WINS WORLD’S BIGGEST CHILDREN’S BOOK PRIZE
Argentinian author and illustrator Isol won the world’s biggest prize for children’s literature on Tuesday with the jury for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award praising her ability to expose the […]
MALAYSIA’S TAN TWAN ENG WINS MAN ASIA BOOK PRIZE
Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng’s novel “The Garden of Evening Mists” has won the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize.
MARVEL TO GIVE AWAY 700 FIRST-ISSUE DIGITAL COMICS
For a limited time only, Marvel is offering free digital copies of its first-issue comics. Numbering over 700, users can download these comics using Marvel’s redesigned app, or from its […]
HILARY MANTEL WINS 2012 COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR
Two-time Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel has snagged the top honor at the Costa Book Awards for her novel “Bring Up the Bodies.”
WIS. MAN’S LITTLE FREE LIBRARY COPIED WORLDWIDE
It started as a simple tribute to his mother, a teacher and bibliophile. Todd Bol put up a miniature version of a one-room schoolhouse on a post outside his home […]
NEW-FOUND TALE COULD BE HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN’S
For years, the somber fairy tale about a lonely candle that wanted to be lit dwelt in oblivion at the bottom of a box in Denmark’s National Archives. Its recent […]
WRITERS LOUISE ERDRICH, DAVID FERRY, KATHERINE BOO, WILLIAM ALEXANDER WIN NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
The National Book Awards honored both longtime writers and new authors, from Louise Erdrich for “The Round House” to Katherine Boo for her debut work, “Beyond the Beautiful Forevers.”
DC ENTERTAINMENT SAYS ENTIRE LINE OF COMICS AVAILABLE FOR IPAD, NOOK, AND KINDLE
For some comic book fans, getting the latest issues of their favorite titles just got a whole lot easier because DC Entertainment announced today that its whole line of comic […]
