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...novel Voyage to the End of the Room is to be released the same day, prematurely savaged Yellow Dog in a widely quoted newspaper article last month. Other literary types piled on, sniffing in print that Amis' 10th novel would surely not be nominated for next month's Man Booker Prize, Britain's top fiction award and one the author - unlike his father - has never won. Yet the novel soon made the 23-strong list of Booker candidates (Fischer's didn't), and last week London bookmakers had it 8 to 1 to win, trailing only J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth...
...Apparently not. This week, the third annual Hong Kong International Literary Festival will bring together international and Asian writers for eight days of discussions and seminars, most of which are open to the public. Yann Martel, Canadian author of the Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi will attend, along with Shobha D?India's answer to Jackie Collins?and Indonesian literary dissident Pramoedya Ananta Toer. (Nobel prizewinner V.S. Naipaul was scheduled to attend but begged off with a literary excuse?he's busy writing...
Teddy Roosevelt set the tone for the 20th century when he invited Booker T. Washington to a meeting at the White House. This was the first time, but unfortunately not the last, that a black was allowed into the sacred halls in a capacity other than domestic...
...brisk morning last month, Booker Johnson stands before a row of newly renovated low-income homes in his neighborhood...
Speaking of tales of adventuresome little boys: Not only did little-known author Yann Martel, below, win Britain's prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction, but he is enjoying the good fortune of being embroiled in a literary feud, which should spike book sales even higher. Martel, a Canadian, won the Booker award for Life of Pi, the story of a shipwrecked boy who shares a lifeboat with a tiger. The book was released in the U.S. in June and ranks No. 23 on this week's New York Times best-seller list. In the Author's Note, Martel acknowledges...