BTW News Briefs

NEIBA Announces Drugan, Gilman Winners

The New England Independent Booksellers Association has awarded its Rusty Drugan Scholarship for Emerging Leaders to Josh Christie, a bookseller at Sherman's Books & Stationery in Freeport, Maine. The scholarship, given in memory of the late Wayne "Rusty" Drugan, who served as NEIBA's executive director from 1992 to 2006, covers a two-night stay at the regional's fall conference.

NEIBA also announced that Ellen Pyle of Macmillan is the winner of this year's Gilman Award, given "for outstanding service as a sales representative to New England indpendent bookstores."

Both awards will be presented at NEIBA's fall conference in Providence, Rhode Island.

Curious George to Star in PSA Campaign

Curious George will play a starring role in the new public service advertising campaign of the Library of Congress. On July 26, the Advertising Council and the Library of Congress announced the launch of a new series of public service advertisements (PSAs) to encourage parents to read with their children and inspire them to become lifelong learners.

The campaign, created in partnership with Universal Partnerships & Licensing and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, encourages parents and kids to visit www.Read.gov as a source for discovery, learning, family fun, and to experience the joy of reading.

The PSAs also direct tweens to a website that features the Library of Congress’s serialized story The Exquisite Corpse Adventure, and adventure written by many well-known children’s authors. Each tells part of the story for two weeks before the story is given to a different author. Each episode also features the work of award-winning children's illustrators.

Longlist for Man Booker Prize for Fiction Announced

On July 27, the following 13 titles were named to the longlist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction:

• Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber & Faber)
• Emma Donoghue, Room (Pan MacMillan/Picador)
• Helen Dunmore, The Betrayal (Penguin/Fig Tree)
• Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room (Grove Atlantic/Atlantic Books)
• Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)
• Andrea Levy, The Long Song (Headline Publishing Group/Headline Review)
• Tom McCarthy, C (Random House/Jonathan Cape)
• David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet  (Hodder & Stoughton/Sceptre)
• Lisa Moore, February (Random House/Chatto & Windus)
• Paul Murray, Skippy Dies (Penguin/Hamish Hamilton)
• Rose Tremain, Trespass (Random House/Chatto & Windus)
• Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap (Grove Atlantic/Tuskar Rock)
• Alan Warner, The Stars in the Bright Sky (Random House/Jonathan Cape)

The 2010 Man Booker shortlist will be announced on Tuesday, September 7, and the winner will be revealed a week later at a dinner at London's Guildhall.