FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (April 25, 2008) - The winners of the Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award 2008 were announced at a ceremony on Friday, April 25 at the Capitol Theatre in Moncton, New Brunswick. The winners are listed below. English...

Alison S. Cohn's piece in The Harvard Crimson reporting on an event with Jonathan Franzen and James Wood, With Critic, Franzen Criticizes Criticism, has been widely linked to and is worth a look.

At hlo Miklos M. Nagy interviews Bret Easton Ellis who isn't quite all humility

Sounds fun: Adam Thirlwell presents Amerikas at Princeton: An experiment with translating an imaginary country, featuring stories by Cesare Pavese, Franz Kafka, and Vladimir Nabokov; musical interludes by Erik Satie and Irving Berlin; and free pencils.

So now things are really moving along, as we're overwhelmed by 26 events to choose from today.

MetaxuCafe is collecting coverage of the many PEN World Voices events (including ours) -- probably worth checking out regularly over the next few days.

A report on the panel on New Directions in Spanish-Language Literature.

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