The latest from the lovethebook.com book awards rss feed. http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx The latest news in book and literary awards from lovethebook.com. New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer has received the 2009 Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism for her book <a href=d... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=112 Tuesday, May 12, 2009 There's no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give ... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=111 Thursday, May 07, 2009 In the year 1896, my great-uncle, one of the first Catholic priests of aboriginal blood, put the call out to his parishioners that they should gather at Saint Joseph's wearing scapulars and holding missals. From that place they would proceed to walk ... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=110 Sunday, April 26, 2009 University of Chicago Professor of Geophysical Sciences, David Archer, has been chosen as the 2009 winner of the Walter P. Kistler B... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=109 Wednesday, April 15, 2009 The Academy of American Poets has announced that Avi Sharon has been chosen by the poet and translator John Balaban as the 2009 <a href=Awards.aspx?bookaw... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=108 Thursday, March 26, 2009 Columbia University has announced that Thomas G. Andrews and two other authors have won the Bancroft Prize for 2009. The Bancroft prize has been awarded since 1948 to the authors of books of... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=107 Sunday, March 22, 2009 "New York is not what most people imagine it to be. Just as marriage, family, friendship and manhood are not. Netherland is suspenseful, artful, psychologically pitch-perfect, and a wonderful read. But more than any of that, it's revelatory. Jose... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=106 Friday, February 27, 2009 Unlike the ships, which plied back and forth, though, the human commodities followed a relentlessly linear course: the direction of their transatlantic movement never reversed. Ships traced circles. Commodities traveled in a straight line.<b... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=105 Saturday, February 21, 2009 "Sebastian Barry has created one of the great narrative voices in contemporary fiction in The Secret Scripture. It is a book of great brilliance, powerfully and beautifully written." - Matthew Parris, ... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=104 Wednesday, January 28, 2009 "As a scholar working in sexuality studies, a long-marginalized field, having my book recognized by the MLA is especially gratifying", was the response of author, Dana Luciano, associate professor of En... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=103 Sunday, January 11, 2009 For over five decades Diana Athill edited some of the most celebrated writers in the English language including Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, John Updike, Mordecai Richler, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Rhys,... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=102 Tuesday, January 06, 2009 Called "the best listener in America" by Doree Shafrir of the New York Observer, Alex Ross was deemed the "undisputed winner" of the Guardian First Book Award winning the... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=101 Tuesday, December 09, 2008 Called "the best study of a slave family ever written". by Jefferson scholar Joseph Ellis, Annette Gordon-Reed's <a href=default.aspx?ai=039306477... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=100 Thursday, November 27, 2008 "What are you most pleased with?" Mohammed Hanif was asked in a Guardian interview. "No publisher in Pakistan," the author replied, "was ready to publish it becaus... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=99 Monday, November 03, 2008 It is a fact that for most of the poor people in India there are only two ways to go up - either through crime or through politics, which can be a variant of crime. - Aravind Adiga, speaking to the BBC after being announced the winner of the... http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?perm=98 Saturday, October 18, 2008