The Guardian – No more Americans? What a new sponsor could mean for the Man Booker prize

Hedge fund’s departure as £1.6m backer of the UK’s leading fiction award has prompted feverish speculation about the prize’s future Previous Man Booker prize winners are among those keenly awaiting the announcement of the new sponsor of the prestigious literary award, after the prize’s sponsor of almost two decades, Man Group, became the latest in a wave…

TV – PBS – The Great American Read

The Great American Read premieres Tuesday, May 22 at 8/7c. Official trailer The 100 List   THE GREAT AMERICAN READ is an eight-part series that explores and celebrates the power of reading, told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels (as chosen in a national survey).  It investigates how and why writers create their…

Books US – Publishers Weekly and PW Radio

Publishers Weekly was established in 1872 and is the US equivalent of the UK’s The Bookseller which began in 1858. Books Etc South Africa focuses on The Bookseller as, for historical and rights reasons it is usually only the UK edition of a book that is available in South Africa.    

US Books – The Guardian – Consuming desire

Nicholas Lezard discovers that we may be getting richer, but we aren’t any happier in Tim Kasser’s The High Price of Materialism Tim Kasser |The High Price of Materialism | MIT 9780262611978 | Oct 2003 Journalists are often furtively grateful for the studies churned out by certain universities that supply hard, empirical data confirming the very…