By MICHELLE HOGMIRE | 9/3/13
RECOGNITIONS –
2013 Hugo Award Winners Announced at LoneStarCon 3, the 71st World
Science Fiction Convention. The Hugo Awards honor works of fantasy and science fiction. Complete
listing of winners and ceremony coverage available online. http://www.thehugoawards.org
NEW PUBLICATIONS – Bookriot.com celebrates Margaret Atwood Riot Reading
Day to commemorate the release of Atwood’s 'MaddAddam.' Online articles include
reviews of the new novel, a reading flowchart and a guest post from Atwood
about horror writing.
NEW CHAIR POSITION—“€136,000 ($179,097) salary for Frank McCourt chair in
writing,” by Limerick Leader’s Anne
Sheridan: “The position to hold the first Chair in Creative
Writing in memory of Frank McCourt has been advertised - with a starting salary
in excess of €100,000 ($131,689). Plans to create this
unique post at the University of Limerick in honour of Limerick’s Pulitzer
Prize winning author had been announced over two years ago, with the
requirement that up to €800,000 ($1,053,512) would have be to raised in Ireland
and the U.S. to fund the chair. The fixed five-year term carries an annual
salary, ranging from €106,516 - €136,276 ($140,270 - $179,460), and the closing
date for receipt of applications is Sept. 30. … Former U.S. President Bill Clinton earlier said: ‘I love that the
University of Limerick will bring creative writing and storytelling back to
Ireland in a fresh way through this chair.’ They hope the initial trial period
of five years will become a long-term commitment.”
9/1/2013
BOOK ESSAYS—“Articles of Faith,” by Dara Horn in Sept. 1 N. Y.
Times Sunday Book Review: Author
Dara Horn discusses how and why religious belief impacts the work of present-day
Jewish writers. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/books/review/articles-of-faith.html?pagewanted=all
8/30/13
“Irish Poet Seamus Heaney dies at
74,” by CNN’s Kevin Liptak: “Seamus Heaney, the poet
whose deeply felt descriptions of rural life in Ireland managed to carry larger
echoes of the island's violent sectarian split, died Friday at the age of 74,
his publisher said. Heaney died in Dublin, Ireland, after a short illness, the
publishing house Faber & Faber announced on behalf of his family. One of
the most widely read poets of the past hundred years, Heaney carried the long
lineage of Irish authorship into an era of violence that marked Ireland for
much of the later twentieth century.
‘We are blessed to call Seamus Heaney our own and thankful
for the gift of him in our national life,’ Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said
Friday. ‘He belongs with Joyce, Yeats, Shaw and Beckett in the pantheon of our
greatest literary exponents.’
Heaney joined three of those writers -- William Butler
Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and Samuel Beckett -- as a recipient of the Nobel
literature prize. The 1995 citation noted Heaney's ‘works of lyrical beauty and
ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past’ as a reason
for bestowing the honor on a fourth Irishman.”
“Barack Obama’s letter explaining Amazon visit sparks criticism,”
by The Guardian’s Liz Bury: “Booksellers in the U.S. have given a cool response to a letter from Barack
Obama explaining his visit to an Amazon fulfillment centre. Obama was accused
of offering his support to the online retailer's aggressive tactics by taking a
televised tour of an Amazon facility in Chattanooga, Tenn., in July." http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/30/barack-obama-letter-amazon-visit
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