Hooker Prize Winners @ AbesBooks

from AbesBooks.com Our Recommended Books – The Hooker Prize The Happy Hooker Xaviera Hollander Callgirl Jeannette Angell Mayflower Madam Sydney Biddle Barrows Love for Sale Nils Johan Ringdal Brothel Alexa Albert More Recommended...

Kate Christensen Wins 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Kate Christensen, The Great Man Kate Christensen’s novel The Great Man (Doubleday) has been selected as the winner of the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The announcement was made March 12 by the directors of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, Patricia Griffith...

Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book

GREENWOOD, IN—Sitting in a quiet downtown diner, local hospital administrator Philip Meyer looks as normal and well-adjusted as can be. Yet, there’s more to this 27-year-old than first meets the eye: Meyer has recently finished reading a book. Yes, the whole...

Camille Paglia Is The Best Essayist in America

clipped from Ms. Paglia’s latest column at Salon.com (and her latest book BREAK BLOW BURN is amazing) Sex, of course, remains a hotly contested issue within feminism itself. I have defended pornography and supported the decriminalization of prostitution,...