And now for something completely different…

10/6/2010 Adam

Here are the winners of the EU Prize for Literature announced at Frankfurt Book Fair, 2010:

Belgium: Peter Terrin, De Bewaker (The Guard)

Cyprus: Myrto Azina Chronides, To Peirama (The Experiment)

Denmark: Adda DjÃ¸rup, Den mindste modstand (The least resistance)

Estonia: Tiit Aleksejev, PalverÃ¤nd (The Pilgrimage)

Finland: Riku Korhonen , LÃ¤Ã¤kÃ¤riromaani (Doctor Novel)

Germany: Iris Hanika, Das Eigentliche (The Bottom Line)

Luxembourg: Jean Back, Amateur

Romania: RÄƒzvan RÄƒdulescu, Teodosie cel Mic (Theodosius the Small)

Slovenia: NataÅ¡a Kramberger, Nebesa v robidah: roman v zgodbah (Heaven in a blackberry bush: novel in stories)

Spain: Raquel MartÃnez-GÃ³mez, Sombras de unicornio (Shadows of the unicorn)

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Goce Smilevski, Ð¡ÐµÑÑ‚Ñ€Ð°Ñ‚Ð° Ð½Ð° Ð—Ð¸Ð³Ð¼ÑƒÐ½Ð´ Ð¤Ñ€Ð¾Ñ˜Ð´ (Sigmund Freud’s sister)

The [EU Prize for Literature], supported through the EU Culture programme, aims to draw attention to new talents and to promote the publication of their books in different countries, as well as celebrating European cultural diversity.

So, please help yourself to some European literature.

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The National Book Foundationâ€™s â€œ5 Under 35â€ Fiction, 2010

10/6/2010 Adam

From the press release…

The 2010 5 Under 35 Honorees are:

Sarah Braunstein, The Sweet Relief of Missing Children (W.W. Norton & Co., 2011)
Selected by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, National Book Award Fiction Finalist for
Madeleine Is Sleeping, 2004

Grace Krilanovich, The Orange Eats Creeps (Two Dollar Radio, 2010)
Selected by Scott Spencer, Fiction Finalist for A Ship Made of Paper, 2003; Fiction Finalist for Endless Love, 1980 and 1981

TÃ©a Obreht, The Tigerâ€™s Wife (Random House, 2011)
Selected by Colum McCann, Fiction Winner for Let the Great World Spin, 2009

Tiphanie Yanique, How to Escape from a Leper Colony (Graywolf, 2010)
Selected by Jayne Anne Phillips, Fiction Finalist for Lark and Termite, 2009

Paul Yoon, Once the Shore (Sarabande, 2009)
Selected by Kate Walbert, Fiction Finalist for Our Kind, 2004

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October Book Display

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October is:

Adopt-A-Shelter Dog Month

To promote the adoption of dogs from local shelters, the ASPCA sponsors this important observance. “Make Pet Adoption Your First Option” – a message in an effort to end the euthanasia of all adoptable animals. Come check out our library’s various collections on Dogs and their care and possibly make a new friend as well.

Did you Know?

Typography & The Chicago Manual of Style

10/5/2010 Adam

Did you know that the new edition (16th ed., 2010) of The Chicago Manual of Style contains “readable new fonts: FF Tisa, originally designed to be a magazine font, [as] the main text, while Whitney is used for inline examples of grammar”?

Well, now you do.

Did you Know?

Worth Noting: Author gets $4.20 (print book) vs $2.27 (ebook)

9/29/2010 Adam

The upshot: From an e-book sale, an author makes a little more than half what he or she makes from a hardcover sale.

The new economics of the e-book make the authorâ€™s quandary painfully clear: A new $28 hardcover book returns half, or $14, to the publisher, and 15%, or $4.20, to the author. Under many e-book deals currently, a digital book sells for $12.99, returning 70%, or $9.09, to the publisher and typically 25% of that, or $2.27, to the author.