The mood at the Thirtieth Annual Publishing Triangle Awards ceremony was jubilantly defiant. Trent Duffy cheerfully reminded us of how far the Publishing Triangle has come. He pointed out that Edmund White was the first Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award
Last night was a very big night in the literary world. The PEN America Awards were announced in New York. Edna O’Brien was on hand to collect her PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalist,
Bob Smith passed on yesterday and suddenly the world seems less fun. Most people knew Bob Smith as the first openly gay comedian to perform on The Tonight Show. Others knew him through his books, in particular his novels, Selfish