Awards! The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were handed out earlier this week, and there’s a separate post with all the winners right here. Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad is set to be given the HBO treatment, btw. Master Georgie was voted to be Best of Beryl, a special one-off Man Booker award given posthumously to honor eternal “Booker Bridesmaid” Beryl Bainbridge.
- Who that reads this doesn’t love the smell of books? Soon you can spritz it on your wrist and neck, as none other than Karl Lagerfeld is working on a book-themed fragrance, to be called Paper Passion. Not too surprising, really, if you’ve seen the man’s library…
- With the Arthur C. Clarke Award set to be handed out next week, here’s a piece on the recent tendency of science fiction books to be set in places like Bangkok, Istanbul, or Johannesburg rather than space.
This past weekend, US tv show 60 Minutes accused Greg Mortensen that his Three Cups of Tea was not authentic, and that his charity spends more time lobbying in the US than building schools in Afghanistan. Investigations continue.
- Lists! Military History buffs: here are 11 of the best books on the Civil War, according to Malcom Jones on thedailybeast.com. Another grim anniversary is that of the BP oil spill, and the LA Times rounds up 9 books on the subject published in the past year. Flavorwire.com surveyed where the evil children in literature reside.
- Budding writers – Piotr Kowalczyk at teleread.com gathers together 40+ free tools to help you edit, design and promote your book.
- Muggles can follow the happenings of the Magic world at magicismight.co.uk – a news site from the Ministry of Magic that will highlight the events of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in the countdown to the last movie’s release.
- And finally, a beautiful series of ads for Lithuanian bookstore Mint Venetu, made by Love Agency (via mymodernmet.com).
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