- The National Book Awards for fiction, poetry and nonfiction were announced last night (despite the National Book Foundation’s headquarters suffering significant structural damage due to Sandy) at an event aimed to give the publishing world a new pizazz and relevance.
The winners:
FICTION: Louise Erdrich, The Round House (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
POETRY: David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (University of Chicago Press)
NONFICTION: Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Random House)
- Occupy Wall Street founds a library (read about it in this great article).
- Two giants of publishing are set to merge: Random House with Penguin.