High profile authors are banding together with teachers, publishers and librarians to ask the British government to fund a statutory scheme of school libraries. The group has created a petition for people to sign to promote the idea of increasing the...
Topics: books

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Writer Philip Hoare has won the BBC Samuel Johnson prize for his nonfiction book Leviathan . Described as a mix of genres, from natural history to memoir, the book is the result of Philip Hoares' lifelong love of whales. The chairman of judges for...
Topics: books, leviathan, philip-hoare

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The L.A. Times Jacket Copy reports that author Alice Hoffman used her Twitter account to vent her frustrations about a review of her book, The Story Sisters , in the Boston Globe . Alice Hoffman felt the critic's review gave away too much of the plot.
Topics: fiction, the-story-sisters

{"title":"Author Alice Hoffman Criticizes Book Critic on Twitter","post_url":"http:\/\/www.writerswrite.com\/wblog.php?wblog=629091","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.writerswrite.com\/rss.xml","author":"wwfeeds","date":"2009-06-29 21:00:00","summary":"The L.A. Times Jacket Copy reports that author Alice Hoffman used her Twitter account to vent her frustrations about a review of her book, The Story Sisters , in the Boston Globe . Alice Hoffman felt the critic's review gave away too much of the plot."}

Wired editor in chief Chris Anderson has admitted that some of the passages in his new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price were copied from Wikipedia. The L.A. Times says Anderson the passages were unintentionally left without a credit to Wikipedia,.
Topics: book, free

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Reuters reports that author Edward Hogan has won the Desmond Elliott Prize . The Desmond Elliott Prize is an annual award for a first novel written in English and published in the UK. Worth £10,000 to the winner, the prize is named after the literary...
Topics: awards, desmond-elliott-prize, edward-hogan

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