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1. National Book Foundation Reveals New Executive Director

Lisa Lucas has been appointed executive director of The Board of Directors of the National Book Foundation, the organization responsible for the National Book Awards.
Lucas will succeed Harold Augenbraum who revealed that he was stepping down last March.

Lucas will become the third executive director in the Foundation’s history.
Lucas comes to after serving as publisher of Guernica, a non-profit digital magazine focused on art and politics. Prior to Guernica, Lucas served as director of education at the Tribeca Film Institute.

The executive search firm Spencer Stuart conducted the search for Lucas and a search committee of the National Book Foundation Board oversaw the process. This team included: chairman David Steinberger, the board’s vice chair Morgan Entrekin, CEO and Publisher of Grove Atlantic; Reynold Levy, President of The Robin Hood Foundation; Carolyn Reidy, President and CEO of Simon and Schuster; Calvin Sims, President and CEO of International House; and Strauss Zelnick, founder of Zelnick Media Capital.

“We went through an exhaustive search process,” stated David Steinberger, president and CEO of The Perseus Books Group and Chairman of the National Book Foundation, “and we could not be more pleased with the outcome. Lisa Lucas is a dynamic leader who has served as a passionate advocate for literature and has built an impressive track record of accomplishment in the not-for-profit world across theater, film and literature.”

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2. NBA Hosts Why Reading Matters Conference

The National Book Foundation is hosting a free event in New York in February called “Why Reading Matters.”

The live panel will feature a panel with the winners of the 2015 Innovations in Reading Prize. The event is dedicated to discussions on how the book industry, educators, librarians and educators can work together to inspire people to read. The keynote is Mark Hecker, executive director of Reach Incorporated, a non-profit that connects challenged teens to become reading tutors for elementary school students. In addition, a panel discussion will include: Kwame Dawes, founder of African Poetry Book Fund; founders Logan Smalley and Stephanie Kent of Call Me Ishmael, William Johnson, managing editor of Lambda Literary, and Todd Boss, co-founder of Motionpoems.

The event is open to the public on Thursday, February 11, 2016 from 9:30 am – 1:30 pm at the Ford Foundation in New York. Follow this link for more details.

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3. National Book Foundation Seeks Innovators in Reading

The National Book Foundation has opened its submissions process for its annual Innovations in Reading Prize.

The $10,000 award will be given to the person who group who creates the most innovative and sustainable program that creates a lifelong love of reading. Applicants can apply now until February 29, 2016 at midnight PST.

“Our previous Innovations in Reading Prize winners have shown that reading has extraordinary benefits for just about any community, including the families of soldiers deployed overseas, incarcerated youth, homeless populations, and small town neighborhoods,” stated Harold Augenbraum, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation. “Through the Innovations in Reading Prize, we aim to recognize, fund, and applaud the efforts of literary activists around the country.”

Last year’s winner and honorable mentions will appear at the Why Reading Matters: Engaging With Literary Activism Across the Globe conference and luncheon on Thursday, February 11, 2016 in New York.  

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4. National Book Foundation to Release 5 Under 35 List on BuzzFeed

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5. James Patterson to be Honored at National Book Awards

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6. National Book Awards Longlist to Run on NewYorker.com

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7. Writers and Publishers Face Off in Basketball Game for Charity

theothernbaThe National Book Foundation is hosting a basketball game for charity in which writers will go at it in the court against publishers.

What business do literary folks have playing basketball? The idea stems from the confusion on Twitter between the National Basketball Association (#NBA) and the National Book Awards (#NBAwards). Players include: Rodrigo Corral (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), Jonny Diamond (Lit Hub), John Freeman (Freeman’s), Katie Freeman (Riverhead Books), Alex Gilvarry (From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant), Mitchell S. Jackson (The Residue Years), Valeria Luiselli (The Story of My Teeth), Steph Opitz (Texas Book Festival), Arthur Bradford (Turtleface and Beyond) and Jess Walter (Beautiful Ruins).

The event is open to the public on Saturday, June 20 from 3 – 6 p.m. at St. Francis College gym, 180 Remsen St, Brooklyn, N.Y. Tickets start at $25. Proceeds will benefit BookUp, the National Book Foundation’s reading program for middle school students in low-income communities.

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8. Harold Augenbraum to Leave National Book Foundation

augenbraumHarold Augenbraum, the executive director of the National Book Foundation since 2004, is leaving his post at the end of March 2016.

\"I have very much enjoyed my time here at the Foundation,\" Augenbraum said in a statement. \"But it’s time for me to seek new challenges in my professional life and for new leadership at the Foundation as it looks toward the future.\"

Augenbraum is credited with revamping the National Book Awards. Under his leadership, the foundation developed the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community as well as the 5 Under 35, a prize for emerging fiction writers. In addition, his leadership was intrinsic to BookUp, an after-school reading program for middle-schoolers and National Readathon Day, among many other endeavors.

\"We owe a great debt to Harold for his exceptional service and countless contributions to the Foundation and its mission,\" stated David Steinberger, CEO of The Perseus Books Group, who serves as chairman of the National Book Foundation. \"We respect his decision, and look forward to working closely with him on a carefully crafted transition process that will position the Foundation for the future.\"

The Foundation’s Board has formed a committee to search for a new executive director.

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9. National Book Foundation’s Innovations in Reading Prize

Do you know a librarian or library with an innovative approach to fostering a love of reading? Fill out an application from the National Book Foundation for the Innovations in Reading Prize!

The Foundation lists “creativity, risk-taking, and a visionary quality” as the most important criteria for selecting winners, who could receive up to $2500 in prizes.  Sound like anyone you know?

Last year’s winners included the Maricopa County Library District, recognized for its use of “Deweyless” libraries to promote more user-friendly browsing.

You can complete an application online or call the Foundation at
(212) 685-0261. All applications must be postmarked by February 17, 2010. Winners will be announced to the public on May 3.

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10. Interviews with the National Book Award Finalists

On November 18th, judges will be choosing the winner of the Young People's Literature National Book Award for 2009. Here are the finalists for the award and interviews with the authors. This information was provided by the National Book Foundation.


Deborah Heiligman, Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith
(Henry Holt) - Interview
Phillip Hoose, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) - Interview
David Small, Stitches (W. W. Norton & Co.) - Interview
Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic) - Interview
Rita Williams-Garcia, Jumped (HarperTeen/HarperCollins)

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11. The National Book Award Finalists for Young People's Literature

The finalists for the 2009 National Book Awards have been announced by the National Book Foundation. For the children's literature category the finalists are:


Deborah Heiligman, Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith (Henry Holt)

Phillip Hoose, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Farrar Straus and Giroux)

David Small, Stitches (W. W. Norton & Co.)

Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)

Rita Williams-Garcia, Jumped (HarperTeen/HarperCollins)

The winner will be announced at the 60th National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony in New York City on Wednesday, November 18th.

You can find out more about the awards and the National Book Foundation on the NBF website.


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12. A 5 Under 35 Report From 2 Under 35

Michelle and Lauren, our fabulous Publicity Assistants, attended 5 Under 35 earlier this week.  Below they tell us all about the event.

For the past few years, the National Book Foundation has kicked off National Book Awards week with “5 Under 35” —a celebration of five fresh and exciting writers under the age of 35.

This year, authors Joshua Ferris, Jonathan Franzen, Francine Prose, Mary Gaitskill and Jim Shepard—all former National Book Award Fiction Finalists—each selected a young fiction writer “who they found particularly promising.” Respectively, they chose Matthew Eck, Keith Gessen, Sana Krasikov, Nam Le, and Fiona Maazel. Each author read from their most recent book to a captive audience of friends and interested writers, editors, publishers, journalists, and bloggers at the Tribeca Cinemas bar the night of Monday, November 17.

Each previous Fiction Finalist introduced their Under 35 choice with glowing recommendations and amusing anecdotes. Joshua Ferris, in fact, joked that he had originally wanted to pick Philip Roth. “Why don’t we call it 5 Under 35 Times 2 Plus 5?” he asked. But after listing all of Roth’s awards, Ferris decided, “To hell with him. That’s enough!”

Also attending the event was musician Dean Wareham, who MC’d, and journalist/writer/pop-culture expert Chuck Klosterman—the night’s DJ extraordinaire. Chuck’s job seemed to consist of hanging out in the DJ loft (read: corner) and looking down curiously at the crowd of people squinting back up at him, his head and beard playing camouflage against the red walls and lights of the venue.

Some of the featured novels fell into category of so-called “slacker fiction”—stories of lackadaisical college years, creative oppression, and distinct antipathy towards the publishing industry, or as the literary hero of Gessin’s slacker protagonist quips: “the publishing inertia.” Author Nam Le’s piece featured a 20 something male slacker, also by the name Nam, who is seriously suffering from writer’s block in his last year of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. In the midst of his character’s frustration, Le deftly satirizes a literary community and industry that encourages writers to find what makes them both “stand out” and fit into the genre of the moment. “Ethnic literature’s hot” says a visiting literary agent. As Le read to a crowd akin to the antithesis of his fictional self, the paradoxical nature of the situation was only heightened by Le’s disclaimer, spoken with a facetious but equaling endearing grin: “the views and opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of the author.”

Young writers tell us in an explicitly subterranean way: I am not a niche! But as history has shown, not wanting to be a niche seems to always become a movement in itself. What makes this select group of five stand out from the next generation of anti-establishment artists is their extraordinary ability to render the usual realities of youth—war, romance, integration, dreams of our hero’s approval—as new, visceral, and with intelligence that is neither earnest nor loquacious, but genuine and humble.


The first picture is of Michelle and Chuck Klosterman.  The second picture is of Lauren and Nam Le.

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