{"id":398,"date":"2012-11-15T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2012\/11\/15\/news-in-the-world-of-books-and-libraries\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:29:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:29:22","slug":"news-in-the-world-of-books-and-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2012\/11\/15\/news-in-the-world-of-books-and-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"News in the World of Books and Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mho1zsFshQg\/UKVrAG7oGnI\/AAAAAAAAAJ4\/rX6yDq-yBdA\/s1600\/images.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mho1zsFshQg\/UKVrAG7oGnI\/AAAAAAAAAJ4\/rX6yDq-yBdA\/s1600\/images.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/11\/15\/erdrich_wins_her_first_national_book_award_2\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Book Awards for fiction, poetry and nonfiction<\/a> were announced last night (despite the <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalbook.org\/nba2012.html#.UKVoVa6yDcx\" target=\"_blank\">National Book Foundation&#8217;s headquarters<\/a> suffering significant structural damage due to Sandy) at an event aimed to give the publishing world a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/12\/books\/national-book-awards-dinner-reinvents-itself.html?emc=tnt&amp;tntemail1=y&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">pizazz and relevance<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><b>The winners<\/b>:<br \/>FICTION:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ubalt.worldcat.org\/title\/round-house\/oclc\/778314690&amp;referer=brief_results\" target=\"_blank\">Louise Erdrich, <i>The Round House<\/i><\/a> (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)<br \/>POETRY: <a href=\"http:\/\/ubalt.worldcat.org\/title\/bewilderment-new-poems-and-translations\/oclc\/768607305&amp;referer=brief_results\" target=\"_blank\">David Ferry, <i>Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations<\/i><\/a> (University of Chicago Press)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>NONFICTION: Katherine Boo, <a href=\"http:\/\/ubalt.worldcat.org\/title\/behind-the-beautiful-forevers\/oclc\/693809650&amp;referer=brief_results\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity<\/i><\/a> (Random House)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Occupy Wall Street founds a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraryjournal.com\/lj\/home\/892578-264\/why_the_occupy_wall_street.html.csp\" target=\"_blank\"> library (read about it in this great article)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Two giants of publishing are<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/18\/magazine\/penguin-random-house-merger.html?smid=tw-share&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\"> set to merge<\/a>: Random House with Penguin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Book Awards for fiction, poetry and nonfiction were announced last night (despite the National Book Foundation&#8217;s headquarters suffering significant structural damage due to Sandy) at an event aimed to give the publishing world a new pizazz and relevance.&nbsp; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2012\/11\/15\/news-in-the-world-of-books-and-libraries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  News in the World of Books and Libraries<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,421,187,199,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}