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2013 PEN Literary Award Winners
PEN America announced the winners of the 2013 PEN Literary Awards, the most comprehensive literary awards program in the country.
PEN America announced the winners of the 2013 PEN Literary Awards, the most comprehensive literary awards program in the country.
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize: To an author whose debut work — a first novel or collection of short stories published in 2012 — represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.
Winner: A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction: To an author of a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective and illuminating important contemporary issues which has been published in the United States during 2011 or 2012.
Winner: Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (downloadable audiobook, eBook)
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay: For a book of essays published in 2012 that exemplifies the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature.
Winner: What Light Can Do by Robert Hass
PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: For a book of literary nonfiction on the subject of the physical or biological sciences published in 2012.
Winner: Subliminal by Leonard Mlodinow
PEN Open Book Award: For an exceptional book-length work of literature by an author of color published in 2012.
Winners: Gun Dealers’ Daughter by Gina Apostol & The Grey Album by Kevin Young
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography: For a distinguished biography published in 2012.
Winner: The Black Count by Tom Reiss (downloadable audiobook, eBook)
PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing: To honor a nonfiction book on the subject of sports published in 2012.
Winner: Over Time by Frank Deford
PEN Translation Prize: For a book-length translation of prose into English published in 2012.
Winner: The Island of Second Sight by Albert Vigoleis Thelen, translated from the German by Donald O. White
Man Booker Prize Longlist 2013
The Man Booker Prize aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. The books longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize are:
The Man Booker Prize aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. The books longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize are:
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (downloadable audiobook)
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Harvest by Jim Crace
The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris
The Kills by Richard House
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Unexploded by Alison MacLeod
TransAtlantic by Colum McCann (CD book, downloadable audiobook, eBook, large print book)
Almost English by Charlotte Mendelson
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
The shortlist will be announced on September 10, and the winner will be announced on October 15.
Adult Summer Reading Program 2013!
The Adult Summer Reading Club beings on Thursday, June 20th!
The Adult Summer Reading Club beings on Thursday, June 20th!
The more books you read and review, the more chances you will have to win some of our great prizes! Free gift for signing up while supplies last!
Don’t miss our Adult Summer Reading Club’s Wrap Up Pizza Party on Tuesday, August 27th 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Exclusive party only for participants of the Adult Summer Reading Club! Join us to discuss your favorite summer reads. Raffles will be drawn and prizes awarded! Come hungry! Please note: You must have reviewed at least 1 book to be eligible for a raffle drawing. The more books you review, the more raffles your name will be entered in!
For more details and to register, please visit www.cshlibrary.org or sign up at the Information Services desk beginning on June 20th.
F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald
Experience the Jazz Age with novels and nonfiction exploring the Roaring Twenties and the tragic lives of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Experience the Jazz Age with novels and nonfiction exploring the Roaring Twenties and the tragic lives of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
FICTION
Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda & Scott Fitzgerald by R. Clifton Spargo
In 1939 Scott is living in Hollywood, a virulent alcoholic and deeply in debt. He arranges a trip to Cuba in an attempt to save his fractured marriage to Zelda. But even in paradise, Scott and Zelda cannot escape the
dangerous intensity of their relationship.
Call Me Zelda by Erika Robuck
Fighting to forge an identity independent of her famous husband as she teeters on the brink of madness, Zelda Fitzgerald is committed to a psychiatric hospital in 1932. She finds a sympathetic friend in nurse Anne Howard, who is held captive by her own tragic past.
Gatsby’s Girl by Caroline Preston
Based on the life of Genevra King, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first love and muse, from their first meeting, through their intense epistolary romance, to her marriage to a dashing young aviator, as she reflects on what her life would have been if she had chosen the writer instead.
The Gin Lovers by Jamie Brenner
Living with her controlling husband in 1920s New York, socialite Charlotte Delacorte’s life changes when her sister-in-law Mae takes up residence with the couple and introduces Charlotte to the flapper revolution.
The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell
A typist for the NYC Police Department in 1923, prim, old-fashioned Rose Baker becomes obsessed with a glamorous newcomer and her world of bobbed hair, smoking, and speakeasies.
A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion by Ron Hansen
A tale based on a true story from 1920s Manhattan follows the affair between voluptuous Ruth Snyder and undergarment salesman Judd Gray, whose plot to kill Ruth’s husband triggers an explosive police investigation.
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father’s opposition and her scandalous transformation into a Jazz Age celebrity in the literary party scenes of New York, Paris, and the French Riviera.
NONFICTION
Bobbed Hair & Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties by Marion Meade (CD book)
A portrait of four extraordinary writers–Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber–whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s.
The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime & Celebrity in 1920s New York by Stephen Duncombe & Andrew Mattson
A tale of flappers and fast cars, sex and morality, celebrity and crime ripped straight from the headlines of the Jazz Age.
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald edited by Jackson R. Bryer & Cathy W. Barks
A collection of love letters recreates one of the most famous love stories in modern history, while revealing some new information about Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
F. Scott Fitzgerald by Ruth Prigozy
Scott Fitzgerald’s life reads like one of his own stories: a young man of great promise marries into wealth, but beneath the golden surface lie alcoholism, debt, insecurity, and in Fitzgerald’s particular case, the mental instability of his beautiful, unconventional wife, Zelda.
Sometimes Madness Is Wisdom: Zelda & Scott Fitzgerald: A Marriage by Kendall Taylor
A new perspective into the tumultuous marriage of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald details their complex relationship, which eventually resulted in his becoming an incurable alcoholic and her descent into madness.
Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise by Sally Cline
A portrait of the Jazz Age artist and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald traces their dysfunctional marriage, Zelda’s work as a painter and dancer, and her struggle to define herself despite the glamorous flapper identity placed upon her by her husband.
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction
The American Library Association (ALA) has selected six books as finalists for the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, awarded for the previous year’s best fiction and nonfiction books written for adult readers and published in the U.S. The 2013 finalists are:
The American Library Association (ALA) has selected six books as finalists for the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, awarded for the previous year’s best fiction and nonfiction books written for adult readers and published in the U.S. The 2013 finalists are:
FICTION
Canada by Richard Ford (CD book, eBook, MP3 CD)
After his parents are arrested and imprisoned for robbing a bank, 15-year-old Dell Parsons is taken in by Arthur Remlinger who, unbeknownst to Dell, is hiding a dark and violent nature that interferes with Dell’s quest to find grace and peace on the prairie of Saskatchewan.
The Round House by Louise Erdrich (CD book, eBook, large print book)
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, fourteen-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family.
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz (CD book)
Presents a collection of stories that explores the heartbreak and radiance of love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.
NONFICTION
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death by Jill Lepore
A history of American ideas about life and death includes coverage of topics ranging from the 17th-century Englishman who investigated a belief about life starting with eggs and the heated debates over Darwin’s evolutionary findings to the role of the Space Age in changing views on planetary life to the 1970s trends in cryogenics.
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan (downloadable audiobook)
Recounts the pioneering photographer’s life-risking effort to document the disappearing North American Indian nation, offering insight into the danger and resolve behind his venture, his elevation to an impassioned advocate, and the posthumous discovery of his achievements.
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
Examines the emergence and causes of new diseases all over the world, describing a process called “spillover” where illness originates in wild animals before being passed to humans and discusses the potential for the next huge pandemic.
2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners
The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners are:
The 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning books are:
FICTION
Winner
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson (downloadable audiobook, eBook, large print)
Finalists
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander (downloadable audiobook, eBook)
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
HISTORY
Winner
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
Finalists
The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 by Bernard Bailyn
Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History by John Fabian Witt
BIOGRAPHY
Winner
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss (downloadable audiobook, eBook)
Finalists
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Michael Gorra
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw (CD book)
POETRY
Winner
Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds
Finalists
Collected Poems by the late Jack Gilbert
The Abundance of Nothing by Bruce Weigl
GENERAL NONFICTION
Winner
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
Finalists
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo (downloadable audiobook, eBook)
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature by David George Haskell
Women’s Prize for Fiction
The Women’s Prize for Fiction is annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English. The titles on the longlist for the 2013 prize, which will be awarded on June 5, are:
The Women’s Prize for Fiction is annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English. The titles on the longlist for the 2013 prize, which will be awarded on June 5, are:
A Trick I Learned from Dead Men by Kitty Aldridge
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber
The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu (eBook)
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (CD book, downloadable audiobook, eBook, large print book)
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (CD book, eBook, large print book)
The Red Book by Deborah Copaken Kogan
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (CD book, downloadable audiobook, large print book)
Lamb by Bonnie Nadzam
The Forrests by Emily Perkins
Ignorance by Michèle Roberts
The Innocents by Francesca Segal (downloadable audiobook, eBook)
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (CD book, downloadable audiobook)
Honor by Elif Shafak
NW by Zadie Smith
The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman (CD book, large print book)
Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
Chinua Achebe, 1930-2013
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe has died at the age of 82. His first novel, Things Fall Apart, has sold more than 12 million copies since its publication in 1958. In 2007, Achebe was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement.
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe has died at the age of 82. His first novel, Things Fall Apart, has sold more than 12 million copies since its publication in 1958. In 2007, Achebe was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement.
NOVELS, SHORT STORIES, & POETRY
Things Fall Apart (1958)
No Longer at Ease (1960)
Arrow of God (1964)
A Man of the People (1966)
Girls at War and Other Stories (1973)
Anthills of the Savannah (1987)
Collected Poems (2004)
ESSAYS & MEMOIRS
Morning Yet on Creation Day (1975)
Hopes and Impediments (1988)
Home and Exile (2000)
The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays (2009)
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra (2012)
Remembering Van Cliburn
Van Cliburn, the American pianist whose first-place award at the 1958 Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow made him an overnight sensation and launched his phenomenally successful and lucrative career, died Wednesday morning in Fort Worth at the age of 78.
Van Cliburn, the American pianist whose first-place award at the 1958 Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow made him an overnight sensation and launched his phenomenally successful and lucrative career, died Wednesday morning in Fort Worth at the age of 78.