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The New York Times' Best Books Of 2009

The New York Times | The New York Times Book Review | Posted 11.26.2009 | Books


The Book Review has made these selections from books reviewed since Dec. 7, 2008, when we published our previous Notables list. It was not easy pickin...

The Forgettable And The Overlooked In Lit Prizes

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books


This year is a good one for female writers; most of the major literature prizes have gone to women, though whether this is a fluke, a new trend of hei...

National Book Awards: What Do You Think? (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.16.2009 | Books


The National Book Foundation rolled out the nominations for the 2009 National Book Award on Wednesday, and the winners will be announced November 18. ...

Women Sweep Literature Prizes

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books


Is it an accident, the judging panels, a mini-trend or are the tides turning? With the sweep of this year's literary awards, all eyes are on the women...

Small Publisher Hits It Big

Elaine Petrocelli | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books


Elaine Petrocelli

When our head buyer, Sheryl Cotleur, told me she had fallen in love with a novel, I was amazed that it came from a press that's connected to a hospital that makes most of us think of mental illness.

Hilary Mantel to Make Reasonable Use of Man Booker Prize Money

Vulture. | vulture | Posted 10.07.2009 | Home


Plus: Mickey Rourke still giving delightful interviews....

The Man Behind the Man Booker Winner

Amy Hertz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books


Amy Hertz

In all of publishing and probably much of the world, there's just nobody else like Jack Macrae, the American publisher of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, which just won the Booker.

Hilary Mantel Wins the Booker Prize

Vulture. | vulture | Posted 10.06.2009 | Home


In your FACE, J. M. Coetzee!...

Hilary Mantel Wins the Booker Prize

NYMag.com | NYMag | Posted 10.06.2009 | Home

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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books


LONDON — A tale of political intrigue set during the reign of King Henry VIII won the prestigious Man Booker prize for fiction Tuesday. Hilary ...

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

The Man Booker Prize | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books


Set in England in the 1520s, Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the...

Hilary Mantel Wins Booker Prize

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books


It's official: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall (John Macrae Books, Henry Holt & Co.) is the winner of the Man Booker Prize for 2009. Yes, this is a time fo...

Booker Prize: Why No Coverage?

The Guardian | Robert McCrum | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books


Once upon a time in the last century, when new fiction was fashionable, the Booker prize (now the Man Booker) was considered Breaking News, upending t...

What Have We Done to Democracy?

Arundhati Roy | Posted 11.27.2009 | World


Arundhati Roy

What happens now that democracy and the free market have fused into a single predatory organism with a thin, constricted imagination that revolves almost entirely around the idea of maximizing profit?

Coetzee Headed for Man Booker Hat Trick?

Vulture. | vulture | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home

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The short list for the 2009 Man Booker Prize was announced today, with J.M. Coetzee in line to possibly become the first-ever author to win three time...

Coetzee Headed for Man Booker Hat Trick?

NYMag.com | NYMag | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home

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The short list for the 2009 Man Booker Prize was announced today, with J.M. Coetzee in line to possibly become the first-ever author to win three time...

Coatzee Headed for Man Booker Hat Trick?

Vulture. | vulture | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home

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The shortlist for the 2009 Man Booker Prize was announced today, with J.M. Coetzee in line to possibly become the first-ever author to win three times...

Coatzee Headed for Man Booker Hat Trick?

NYMag.com | NYMag | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home

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The shortlist for the 2009 Man Booker Prize was announced today, with J.M. Coetzee in line to possibly become the first-ever author to win three times...

Booker Shortlist 2009: Byatt, Coetzee Are Back

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media


LONDON — Previous winners A.S. Byatt and J.M. Coetzee are among six finalists announced Tuesday for literature's prestigious Man Booker Prize. ...

The Shelf Talker: Disco, Beer and Rubix Cubes

Kevin Smokler | Posted 08.04.2009 | Media


Kevin Smokler

The nominees for the Man Booker Prize, the UK's equivalent of the Best Book Oscar, have been announced. Though we love lists/awards/hall-of-fames of all variety we want hide under the sofa when they land in our laps.

Me Cheeta, Chimp's Memoir, Among Contenders For Man Booker Prize

AP | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media


LONDON — The purported autobiography of a movie-star chimpanzee is among the contenders for Britain's most prestigious literary award. "Me Chee...

Please, Dear Novelists - Get Real

Johann Hari | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media


Johann Hari

The Slumdog Kill-ionaire is back, and he is reminding us how exhilarating fiction can be when novelists finally leave their seminar rooms and dive into the real world.

Interview with Arundhati Roy: 'We Need a Feral Howl'

Christina Patterson | Posted 08.17.2009 | Entertainment


Christina Patterson

Roy is one of the only writers to have hit international stardom with fiction that won plaudits for its winsome playfulness and to have eschewed it, for more than a decade, for deadly serious polemic.

Jason Linkins

TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.01.2009 | Media


Hello, good morning, welcome, to nothing much. This is your liveblog of the Sunday Morning Political Loud Sucking Sounds.

Alice Munro Wins Man Booker International Prize

Los Angeles Times | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media


According to the official announcement, Alice Munro has won the International Man Booker Prize. "I am totally amazed and delighted," she said in a pre...