"American Eve": The young and rich behaving badly
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
"American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the 'It' Girl and the Crime of the Century" by Paula Uruburu Riverhead Books...
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Exclusive Video: Sloane Crosley
Stop Smiling (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
Sloane Crosley’s first book — a collection of essays titled I Was Told There’d Be Cake (Riverhead Books) — has already debuted on the New York Times bestseller list. (You can read Wendy Walker’s review on the site today.) But Miss Crosley’s storytelling skills are boundless: To help illustrate some of the essays in her [...]
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Every Rhyme I Write is 25 to Life
4thletter! (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
Best Reality-Based Work Laika, by Nick Abadzis (First Second) The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam, by Ann Marie Fleming (Riverhead Books/Penguin Group) Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, by James Sturm and Rich Tommaso (Center for Cartoon Studies/Hyperion) Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm, by Percy Carey and Ronald Wimberly (Vertigo/DC) White Rapids, by Pascal Blanchet (Drawn & Quarterly)...
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Pulitzers Announced
Bluestalking Reader (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
I'm a day late on this one, but here's the list: Fiction: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) Drama: August: Osage County by Tracy Letts (Theatre Communications Group) History: What Hath God Wrought: The...
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More geek cred
Precocious Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
In another example of nerds making good, Junot Díaz has won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead Books). It’s a really superb book, almost miraculously so since it’s primarily about an undersexed, comic-loving geek. (Seriously, that’s a category of fiction that’s closing in [...]
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Junot Diaz Wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; Winners
Hispanic Business Magazine (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
NEW YORK (dpa) -- Columbia University's Pulitzer Prize Board on Monday honored the following winners in prizes ranging from fiction to music: FICTION: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) ...
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The unknown Pulitzers (to me at least)
Churbuck.com (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
In the arts, (aka: books) this year’s crop is completely unknown to me: Fiction: “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) Drama: “August: Osage County,” by Tracy Letts History: “What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848,” by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press) Biography: “Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott...
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Winners of Pulitzer Prizes in fiction, drama, history and music
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
FICTION:The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)...
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2008 Pulitzers Announced
Dear Author.Com (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
FICTION: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) DRAMA: August: Osage County by Tracy Letts HISTORY: What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press) BIOGRAPHY: Eden’s Outcasts by John Matteson (W.W. Norton) POETRY: Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins) POETRY: Failure by Philip [...]
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Junot Diaz Wins National Book Critics Awards
VivirLatino (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao published by Riverhead Books, won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction. I feel it's well deserved. The book made me and lots of friends I know cry. When...
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Second Disaster Book For Editor Of Fabricator [Margaret Seltzer]
Gawker (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Riverhead Books editor Sarah McGrath, who shepherded the fake memoir from Margaret Seltzer (pictured at left), bought a spectacularly inaccurate memoir once before. In 2006, Scribner canceled...
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National Briefing | Books: National Book Critics Circle Awards
New York Times (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
The National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced, and Junot Díaz won the award for fiction for his debut novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” (Riverhead Books).
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Truth and Consequences
Bostonist (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Tears and sorrow fill the offices of mainstream publisher Riverhead books as another memoir delivered from the school of hard knocks turns out to be a complete fabrication. Love and Consequences , a memoir released last week by Margaret Seltzer (published under the silly pseudonym Margaret B Jones), which chronicles the author's difficult life story of foster families, drug running,...
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Another Day, Another Phony Oprah-Endorsed Memoir
Blue Crab Boulevard (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
This is amusing. Another Oprah Winfrey endorsed memoir (or endorsed by her magazine) has turned out to be a work of fiction. The book, purportedly by a biracial gang member was actually written by a well-off white woman and completely made up. Publisher Riverhead Books was forced to [...]
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Memoirs and the Lying Liars Who Write Them
Slog (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
Geoffrey Kloske, publisher of Riverhead Books, tells the New York Times that there was "nothing else that he or Sarah McGrath, the book's editor, could have done to prevent the author from lying." Here's what they did do... Despite editing the book in the aftermath of the scandal surrounding James Frey, author of a best-selling memoir, A Million Little Pieces, who admitted...
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