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Blog Entry: quiet, deliberate poet wins $100,000 Eleanor Ross Taylor has won the Poetry Foundation's Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the largest literary prizes in the country. Feyenoord Poetry magazine editor Christian Wiman said in a statement that until the collection "Captive Voices" (2009), most of her work was out of print. "Her slow production (six books in 50 years), dislike of poetry readings ('It seems to me that it's all for the person and not the poetry'), and unfashionable fidelity to narrative and clarity haven't helped matters. And yet ... what's been bad for the career has been good for the poems." (GalleyCat) The Pulitzer winner for fiction: Never heard of Paul Harding? Here's an interview with Harding, the author of "Tinkers," by Bookslut's Michele Filgate: . His book also won an Indies Choice "honor award" from the American Booksellers Association. Other winners: nonfiction, David Grann, "The Lost City of Z"; fiction, Abraham Verghese, "Cutting for Stone"; debut, Kathryn Stockett, "The Help." The full list: . handbags-o Also: Oxford American magazine chose Charles Portis ("True Grit") for its lifetime achievement award in Southern literature. Mystery Writers of America reinstated Harlequin as an "approved publisher," now that Harlequin has agreed to be separate from the self-publishing arm it created. MWA ejected it last year - thus killing its writers' eligibility for the prestigious Edgar Awards. (GalleyCat ) JUST OUT Anne Lamott's "Imperfect Birds" is the sequel to "Crooked Little Heart" (1997) and "Rosie" (1983). Here a central issue is teen substance abuse. Writes Ron Charles, "This is a mature, thoughtful novel" that "doesn't ignore the pain or exalt in despair." "One hopes that concerned friends and school counselors will begin passing 'Imperfect Birds' to beleaguered moms and dads just as they've long given copies of 'Operating Instructions' to expectant parents." (Washington Post: ) Reporter/novelist David Ignatius, after suspiciously checking claims by pseudonymous memoirist "Reza Kahlili" in "A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran," sees the story "of the Iranian revolution and how he came to despise it" as "genuinely powerful"; "We are reading not so much a spy story as a national tragedy." Yann Martel ("Life of Pi"), "Beatrice and Virgil." A reviewer for The Oregonian describes it as "a moving book, concerned with the old, intractable problem of suffering; how to speak of, or merely speak, the unspeakable" - here, the Holocaust. But in the end, he calls it "conceited" in its ed hardy hoodies literary devices. A reviewer for The NYT calls it "misconceived and offensive," saying it trivializes the Holocaust. Other articles: http://www.youth.com.bd/blog/view/id_1594/title_’bhatkal’s-brother-being-frame/ http://www.idcg.com.cn/bbs/Blog.asp?BlogUserName=asdf&menu=ShowBlog&BlogID=958
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