America is The Worst for trying to equate popularity with quality.
The winners of the 2012 Costa Book Awards were announced yesterday, and for the first time ever, each category was won by a female author.
“Another year, another Year In Reading. Another year, a bigger Year In Reading. The site gets older, the site continues to grow – for that we thank everyone who wrote and shared the pieces in this series, as well as everyone who read along.
The numbers this year were simply bonkers. Up from 2011, our 2012 totals amounted to a whopping 74 participants and 261 different books. These books run the gamut from graphic memoirs to cookbooks, and they were written by 238 authors – we’re happy to note that 15 of those authors submitted their own pieces in the series.”
- A Year In Reading: Wrap Up by Nick Moran
This was the most popular book in 2012’s Year in Reading. Find out which others followed closely behind in Nick Moran’s Year In Reading: Wrap Up
The Golden TARDIS for Excellence in Time Travel
The George Wallace Commemorative Airhorn for Multiple Shout Outs
“Mr. Consistent”
The Bob Ross Memorial Golden Paintbrush
The George Washington Cup for Honesty
Get to know Mo Yan, literature’s newest Nobel laureate.
The title story from this collection just won the BBC International Short Story Award. Отлично! Now check out some more Miroslav Penkov goodness.
Congratulations to the five young writers named to the inaugural class of the National Student Poets Program!
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