Next month when you're staring at the $100 ticket cost for the Lammys you'll wonder why you didn't attend the wonderful Publishing Triangle awards on April 28 -- free ceremony, fewer prizes, and free after-party from an all-volunteer army of queer book lovers. Tonight's lineup of nominees is particularly appealing and the keynote will be given by lifetime achievement winner Alan Hollinghurst. You've waited seven years since The Line of Beauty and early buzz on The Stranger's Child
says it's even better. The story traverses the entire 20th century, beginning with a Rupert Brooke-ish lad who is loved by his Cambridge classmate and the classmate's sister before dying young in WWI. See Hollinghurst now because the novel doesn't pub until October, which gives Knopf plenty of time to change that typeface.
For the full list of nominees, click here.
Finalists for The Ferro-Grumley Awards for LGBT Fiction
* Daniel Black, Perfect Peace
* Lucy Jane Bledsoe, The Big Bang Symphony
* Daniel Allen Cox, Krakow Melt
* David McConnell, The Silver Hearted: A Novel
* Eileen Myles, Inferno
* Michael Sledge, The More I Owe You
Tonight at 7:00pm at the New School, 66 W 12th Street.
Love this. Is there anyone more reality-based than John Waters? (How did he EVER make a movie with Sam Waterston AND Kathleen Turner? It's the only one of his films I refuse to see.) And the wonderful and charming Alan Hollinghurst who was so nice to me when I met him years ago at long-gone Warburton's bookstore in Boston. Your two posts are more than enough sunshine, Sunshine, on this gray day in New England. Thanks.
Posted by: Sandy | April 28, 2011 at 09:32 AM
"The Stranger's Child" has a release date of July 1 on AmazonUK - I buy from them all the time. In fact, I'm reading Alan Bennett's new book "Smut" (which has no release date set in the USA).
Posted by: Ivan | April 28, 2011 at 10:02 AM