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Since 1901, the Nobel Prize for Literature has annually honored writers who have produced "the most outstanding work in an ideal direction," in genres ranging from poetry, novels and short stories, to essays, speeches and plays. On October 8, 2009, the Swedish Academy awarded their 102nd prize to German author Herta Müller "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"
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Last Monday brought a huge downpour here in the city, and I managed to get caught up in it. Normally I wouldn't mind, but I happened to be wearing a sport coat (which is incredibly rare for me; I'm not dressed up often), and I also happened to be running (even rarer) to an event at Powerhouse Books in Brooklyn. The event was a special presentation featuring two of the biggest graphic works out right now and their respective authors: David Small (Stitches) and Josh Neufeld (A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge). I'm a big fan of both, and I had already had the pleasure of interviewing them both for GNR, so I was very familiar with both books. Which is a good thing, because I was the moderator for the night's event.
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The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, first awarded in 1969, promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year.
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Lisa Elliott is a young-adult librarian at the Tigard Public Library in Tigard, Oregon, who has the distinction of once having been mere inches away from Art Speigelman. She didn’t speak to him.
It was déjà vu all over again at New York Anime Festival 2009. After a year of gloomy news in the anime and manga industry, the mood among publishers seemed cautiously upbeat. Four of the five manga publishers at the convention announced new licenses and initiatives, but almost all the new projects relied on familiar creators or crossovers with other media.
My first job after college was as a copy editor, and even now, I manage to supplement my income with some copyediting jobs here and there. That’s the first full-disclosure part, and here’s the second: I by no means claim that this site is error-free. People make mistakes all the time, be they silly, embarrassing, or even unnoticeable (and sometimes those “mistakes” are not really errors at all—style decisions and differences in opinions can account for a lot of things that catch people’s eyes. For example, I prefer to use serial commas, but I have no problem splitting infinitives or ending a sentence with a preposition—this latter preference is one many would disagree with).
Just for the record: I first approached this blog for Graphic Novel Reporter with the philosophical stance that I would not use it as my private billboard. In fact, a few weeks back, I even passed up trumpeting my appearance at the Brooklyn Book Fair.
Well, didn't September just zip on by! Whoosh went those 30 days. The other day I was in a store and people were talking about getting ready for the holidays and I felt myself thinking..."noooo, not yet!" I was just beginning to think orange for Halloween.
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