The Malaysian Insider :: Books
The Malaysian Insider :: Books |
| Discover Award’s six female finalists announced Posted: 05 Feb 2013 05:43 PM PST  'Behind the Beautiful Forevers' comes from Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Katherine Boo. – AFP pic NEW YORK, Feb 6 – Six new authors, including Katherine Boo and Cheryl Strayed, are in with a chance of a retail boost as book chain Barnes & Noble counts down to the annuual Discover New Writers Award for 2012. In fiction, Amanda Coplin is represented by her debut novel The Orchardist, alongside Eowyn Ivey's tale of Alaskan mystery in The Snow Child and mesmerisingly unusual The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker. The nonfiction finalists are Katherine Boo, for her study of Mumbai slumlife in Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Kristen Iversen on the life surrounding a nuclear weapons plant with Full Body Burden, and Cheryl Strayed's arresting coastal hike Wild. The winners will be announced on March 6, each benefiting from US$10,000 (RM30,400) and a year's worth of retail promotion. Last year's prizes went to Scott O'Connor for Untouchable and Michael Levy for Kosher Chinese. – AFP-Relaxnews |
| Neil Gaiman backs BlackBerry’s project Posted: 05 Feb 2013 04:10 PM PST  Neil Gaiman Not one to shy away from projects that get people reading, Neil Gaiman is looking to the Twitter community to inspire a series of stories—but hurry, because the entry deadline for all 12 is February 6. "I love the idea of taking what I may and giving it back to people, almost like some kind of ping-pong match," he explains in the Keep Moving Project video. "What I'm going to do is create a Calendar of Tales. Twelve stories. I'm going to write them, but they will be absolutely inspired, and illustrated, by you." Twelve questions are posed, and 12 of the answers will then be used by Neil as the basis for his stories. Correspondants will be telling him about the dangers of January, the weirdest gifts received in May, mythical creatures they'd like to meet in October, and who they'd like to see again in December. Would-be muses have until 5pm today (noon in New York, 6pm Central Europe, 1am tomorrow in Singapore and Malaysia, and 4am in Sydney) to tweet their responses using the month and #KeepMoving hashtags. – AFP-Relaxnews |
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