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Friday, October 24, 2008

News Around the Net

Friends and colleagues remember David Foster Wallace.

Mitzi Angel pays six-figures for the Nick Cave's novel The Death of Bunny Munro.

Russian/French author, Irène Némirovsky, who died at the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, has her own exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.

Fernando Savater wins Spain's most lucrative literary award—$820,000; no that's not a typo.

The British Library now has collected recordings of some of the 20th Century's greatest literary figures.

Yaddo on display at the New York Public Library.

Pat Kavanagh dies at 68 and Dan Harvey dies at 62.

Margaret Atwood is awarded Spain's Prince of Asturias prize for literature.

Sarah Palin says yessss to literature.

Burger King sponsors poetry contest.

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