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Ira Glass

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Ira Glass receives Medal from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.

Ira Glass is the host and creator of the public radio program This American Life. The show premiered on Chicago's public radio station WBEZ in 1995 and is now heard on more than 500 public radio stations each week by over 1.7 million listeners. The American Journalism Review declared that the show is "at the vanguard of a journalistic revolution." In 2013 Ira Glass received the Medal for Spoken Language from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.

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W.S. Merwin

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W. S. Merwin's The Collected Poems of W.S. Merwin published

In a career spanning five decades, W.S. Merwin, poet, translator, and environmental activist, has become one of the most widely read — and imitated — poets in America. In March 2013 he was awarded the first Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award. A two-volume set of his work, The Collected Poems of W.S. Merwin, will be published in May 2013.

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Jaron Lanier

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Jaron Lanier's new book is Who Owns the Future?

A Renaissance Man for the 21st century, Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author. His new book, Who Owns the Future? has just been released.

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Eve Ensler

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Eve Ensler's new book is In the Body of the World

Eve Ensler is a Tony Award winning playwright, performer, activist, and cancer survivor. Her new book, In the Body of the World  is a brave and beautiful examination of an illness, unlike anything ever written about cancer.

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Anchee Min

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Anchee Min's next book is The Cooked Seed: A Memoir

Anchee Min’s writing has been praised for its raw, sharp language and historical accuracy. Her next book, due in May 2013, will be a memoir that continues where Red Azalea left off. The Cooked Seed: A Memoir will tell the story of Min’s struggles to find herself in a new land.

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Billy Collins

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Billy Collins selected for Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize

Billy Collins is an American phenomenon. No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal. In April 2013 he was selected as the fourth winner of the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry.. His next book,  Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems 2003 – 2013, will be released in October 2013.

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Chris Ware

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Chris Ware awarded Lynd Ward Award for Building Stories

Chris Ware's work has appeared in many national and international art exhibits to increasing international fame. His newest book, Building Stories, was has been awarded the Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year...

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Michael Pollan

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Michael Pollan's new book is Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture. His new book is  Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation.

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Erik Larson

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Erik Larson has joined the Steven Barclay Agency

Erik Larson is the author of three New York Times bestsellers, including The Devil in the White City, which remained on the Times‘ hardcover and paperback lists for a combined total of over three years. His most recent book is In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin.

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Jonathan Franzen

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Jonathan Franzen's book will Farther Away to be released as a paperback

Jonathan Franzen has been voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an “honor society” whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art. His most recent book, Farther Away, a collection of essays, is being released in paperback on April 23rd.

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Zadie Smith

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Zadie Smith a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction

Novelist Zadie Smith was born in North London in 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother. In 2003 and again in 2013 she was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. Her latest novel, NW, was named as one of The New York Times '10 Best Books of 2012.' Smith is a finalist for the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction.

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Sharon Olds

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Sharon Olds wins 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her book Stag's Leap

Sharon Olds is the author of eight volumes of poetry. Her poetry, says Michael Ondaatje, is “pure fire in the hands.”  Her most recent collection, Stag's Leap (2012) was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize.

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Alexander McCall Smith

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Alexander McCall Smith's A Conspiracy of Friends is being released in paperback

Alexander McCall Smith, referred to as our new P.G. Wodehouse, is a modern serial novelist. A Conspiracy of Friends the third in the Corduroy Mansions series is being released in paperback.

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David Sedaris

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David Sedaris' new book is Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls

With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today. His new book is Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls.

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Daniel Handler

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Daniel Handler releases new book as Lemony Snicket; The Dark

As Lemony Snicket Daniel Handler has collaborated with Jon Klassen on a new picture book,  The Dark. Handler is the author of the literary novels The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, and, most recently, Adverbs. Under the name Lemony Snicket he has also written a sequence of books for children, known collectively as A Series of Unfortunate Events, which have sold more than 60 million copies and were the basis of a feature film.

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Robert Pinsky

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Robert Pinsky's next book is Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters.

Robert Pinsky’s first two terms as United States Poet Laureate were marked by such visible dynamism, and such national enthusiasm in response, that the Library of Congress appointed him to an unprecedented third term. Throughout his career, Pinsky has been dedicated to identifying and invigorating poetry’s place in the world. Pinsky's next book, due in August 2013, will be Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters.

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Kay Ryan

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Kay Ryan is the recipient of the 2013 Fred Cody Award

Kay Ryan, United States Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, was born in California in 1945 and grew up in the small towns of the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert. Her most recent collection, The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, was nominated for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award and was just awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in April, 2011. In 2013 she was the recipient of the Fred Cody Award for Lifetime Achievement in Community and Literature.

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