Sara Maxine Taffae, chair, State Library of Louisiana; Patricia L. Gregory, vice chair, St. Louis University; Alicia Ahlvers, Kansas City Public Library; Susie F. Brown, Shaker Heights Public ...Library; Hope Cockrell, Denton Public Library; Daniel Gillane, Lafayette Public Library; Steven Jablonski, Skokie Public Library; A. Issac Pulver, Saratoga Springs Public Library; Rhea Joyce Rubin, Rubin Consulting; Andrea Slonosky Long Island University (Brooklyn campus); Shawna Thorup, Fayetteville Public Library; Brenda Wegener, Mercantile Library; and Booklist consultant Brad Hooper. The Notable Books Council, ALA Reference and User Services Association, has selected the titles for their significant contribution to the expansion of knowledge or for the pleasure they can provide to adult readers. By turns humorous and tragic, this sometimes surreal novel examines Jewish culture during Argentina's "dirty war" and chronicles the disappearance of one family's son.
At this year's Association of Writers and Writing Programs annual conference, Publishers Weekly presented a panel called Breaking Digital Ground: E-books and Small Press Literary Publishing. Details ...of the event are presented.
Novelist Per Petterson is interviewed. Petterson discusses the history of Norwegian Communism, why he revived his character Arvid Jansen for his new novel, and the autobiographical aspects of the ...novel.
Graywolf Press is kicking off its 40th anniversary celebration on Feb 28 in Seattle during AWP. AWP annually brings together Graywolf's core constituency of hardcore literati. The celebrations will ...continue at various venues around the country this spring and into the fall.
Looking to leverage recent critical and financial successes, the literary publisher Graywolf Press is embarking on several new initiatives to further boost its visibility and to reflect that it is, ...in new marketing director Michael Taeckens's words, "entering a new era."
