Send Your Poetry to The Guardian

from Guardian UK Sean O’Brien’s workshop Sean O’Brien Monday March 10, 2008 guardian.co.uk A central figure in the world of contemporary poetry, Sean O’Brien is famous for balancing the demands of tradition and poetic structure with a flair for...

Penguin Enhanced e-Book Classics

by Jim Milliot — Publishers Weekly Penguin is committed to trying different things in the digital space and things that work will be continued and those that don’t will be stopped, company chairman John Makinson told journalists at a luncheon in New York...

New Titles Out Next Week

snipped from Shelf-Awareness newsletter Selected new titles out next Tuesday, March 18: Seen It All and Done the Rest: A Novel by Pearl Cleage (One World/Ballantine, $25) follows an actress as she copes with reaching middle age. Charley’s Web: A Novel by Joy...

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...

Win a Free Book on Loaded Questions Blog

This blog offers original interviews with some of the most talented authors in a multitude of different fiction and nonfiction genres as well as discussions about upcoming books. She’s also running a contest to win a copy of Catherine Delors’ Mistress of...