The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak is listed as #3 on The Globe and Mail’s Bestsellers List. Published by Doubleday Canada, The Winter Palace was available for purchase on Jan. 10, 2012, and has made the bestsellers list in less than one week. The Winter Palace is a novel about Catherine the Great, told from [...]
UK based Costa book awards recently announced its winners in five categories–novel, first novel, biography, poetry and children’s book.
Her Circle Ezine is pleased to announce an upcoming book giveaway for The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak (Bantam Books, 2011). In order to qualify for the book giveaway, you must read the UpClose Interview with Eva Stachniak on January 10, 2012, and leave a comment on that interview.
The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, has announced 2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award, which will honor an American poet of at least 40 years of age who is yet to publish a first collection of poetry.
Congratulations to author Cathy Marie Buchanan for having her second novel, tentatively titled as The Van Goethem Sisters sold at an auction in the U.S. to Sarah McGrath at Riverhead/Penguin and in Canada to Iris Tupholme at Harper Collins.
Three women writers win US National Book Awards in the categories of fiction, poetry, and young adult literature.
Esi Edugyan, Booker prize nominee, recently won Scotiabank Giller Prize, one of Canada’s most distinguished literary prizes, for her book Half-Blood Blues.
The 28th Miami Book Fair International, an eight-day party for book lovers, is taking place on Wolfson Campus of Miami Dade College from November 13th to November 20.
Book Giveaway! A copy of Janet Elder’s book, Huck will be given to a Her Circle Ezine reader! Huck is the true story of the tenacity of one small dog, the unexpected, extraordinary kindness of strangers, and a family’s devotion to each other. Elder’s son, Michael, was four when his relentless campaign for a dog [...]
Book Giveaway! Win a copy of Margot Mifflin’s “The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman.” Read the book review on October 1st, leave a comment and qualify to win!
Natsuo Kirino’s novels are not for the faint-hearted, nor are they for westerners loath to abandon the cultural stereotype of the Japanese woman as a delicate and beautiful “oriental flower”. Wendy Nakanishi explores the role of women in Japanese culture and society through Kirino’s popular works of crime and suspense.
In this podcast, Thaisa Frank reads from her novel Heidegger’s Glasses and discusses how “her intuition led her to write about circumstances that were grounded in factual events, but of which she had no knowledge at the time.”
“Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out.”–Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?, 1898. In the mid-20th century, art was dominated by a rather formal language of abstraction. Minimalism, Formalism & Conceptualism made up the artistic mainstream. To call an art work decorative was to deride it.
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