The Chicago Sun Times Books Sunday, April 18, 2010, featured "The City of Big Writers" by Mike Thomas. Currently, there are efforts underway to create a Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. It will honor Chicago-connected living and dead literary giants. A panel of 18 Chicago writers chose 27 writers as nominees, and a panel of 5 will choose a final six. They will be inducted on May 1 during a benefit at Sanfilippo Estate in Barrington Hills. Tickets are $55 for Chicago Writers Association members and $65 for nonmembers, www.chicagoliteraryhof.org.
The nominees are: Jane Addams, Nelson Algren, Sherwood Anderson, Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, Oscar Brown Jr., Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Callaway, Cyrus Colter, Theodore Dreiser, James T. Farrell, Edna Ferber, Leon Forrest, Lorraine Hansberry, Ben Hecht, Ernest Hemingway, Fenton Johnson, Norman MacLean, Edgar Lee Masters, Harriet Monroe, Franklin Rosemont, Mike Royko, Carl Sandburg, Shel Silverstein, Studs Terkel, Ida B. Wells, Richard Wright. Who would you choose?
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
100th Anniversary of Mark Twain
The legendary author and humorist Mark Twain died 100 years ago today. In honor
of Twain, I offer a sampling of his wit:
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable."
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
"The right word may be effective but no word was ever as effective as the rightly timed pause."
"Fiction is obliged to stick to the possibilities. Truth isn't."
The Fremont Public Library has all his books and many books about him. Here is a sample of his books available at the library: Mainly the Truth: Interviews with Mark Twain, Collected Short Stories of Mark Twain, Mark Twain on Travel,The Autobiography of Mark Twain , and of course, his famed Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Adventures of Mark Twain. What better way to honor Twain than by reading his books? Come to the library and check them out!
of Twain, I offer a sampling of his wit:
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable."
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
"The right word may be effective but no word was ever as effective as the rightly timed pause."
"Fiction is obliged to stick to the possibilities. Truth isn't."
The Fremont Public Library has all his books and many books about him. Here is a sample of his books available at the library: Mainly the Truth: Interviews with Mark Twain, Collected Short Stories of Mark Twain, Mark Twain on Travel,The Autobiography of Mark Twain , and of course, his famed Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Adventures of Mark Twain. What better way to honor Twain than by reading his books? Come to the library and check them out!
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
2010 Orange Prize Shortlist.
The shortlist for the 2010 Orange Prize for fiction written by women features two debut novelists as well as "the seemingly unstoppable might of Hilary Mantel and Wolf Hall," the Guardian reported. The winner will be honored June 9 in London. Finalists are:
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey.
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey.
Monday, April 12, 2010
2010 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama, and Music
The winners in Letters, Drama, and Music are:
Fiction: Tinkers by Paul Harding. Finalists: Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet; In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin.
Drama: Next to Normal music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey. Finalists: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph, In the Next Room by Sarah Ruhl.
History: Lords of Financeby Liaquat Ahamed. Finalists: Fordlandia by Greg Grandin,Empire of Liberty by Gordon S. Wood.
Biography: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles. Finalists: Woodrow Wilson by John Milton Cooper, Jr.,Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey.
Poetry: Versed by Rae Armantrout. Finalists: Tryst by Angie Estes, Inseminating the Elephants by Lucia Perillo.
General Nonfiction: The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman. Finalists: How Markets Fail by John Cassidy, The Evolution of God by Robert Wright.
Music: Violin Concerto by Jennifer Higdon. Finalists: String Quartet No. 3 by Fred Lerdahl, Steel Hammer by Julia Wolfe.
Fiction: Tinkers by Paul Harding. Finalists: Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet; In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin.
Drama: Next to Normal music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey. Finalists: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph, In the Next Room by Sarah Ruhl.
History: Lords of Financeby Liaquat Ahamed. Finalists: Fordlandia by Greg Grandin,Empire of Liberty by Gordon S. Wood.
Biography: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles. Finalists: Woodrow Wilson by John Milton Cooper, Jr.,Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey.
Poetry: Versed by Rae Armantrout. Finalists: Tryst by Angie Estes, Inseminating the Elephants by Lucia Perillo.
General Nonfiction: The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman. Finalists: How Markets Fail by John Cassidy, The Evolution of God by Robert Wright.
Music: Violin Concerto by Jennifer Higdon. Finalists: String Quartet No. 3 by Fred Lerdahl, Steel Hammer by Julia Wolfe.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
April is National Poetry Month
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux is clebrating 2010 National Poetry Month with a poetry blog, The Best Words in their Best Order, http://www.fsgpoetry.com. Some highlights: Publisher Jonathan Galassi discusses the state of poetry today and his favorite young poets; a listing of notable events and readings around the USA; the return of Poem a Day email, including works by Frederick Seidel, Dan Paterson, Maureen N. McLane, Tony Hoaglund, D.A.Powell, and Derek Walcott.
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