New Jack Kerouac book to be published. A novel co-written by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, two giants of the “Beat Generation” of poets, writers and drug-takers, is to be published for the first time more than 60 years after it was written.
Tom Rob Smith is worried by cranberries. In his three-storey apartment in south London’s converted Jam Factory, he is busy writing his second novel to a tight deadline. His first novel, Child 44, caused a lot of hoopla at the London Book Fair when, after a bidding war, it was sold in 22 countries and Ridley Scott bought the film rights. Child 44 is a thrilling, intense piece of fiction set in Stalin’s Russia. [Guardian]
Author admits making up memoir of surviving Holocaust. Eleven years after the publication of her best-selling Holocaust memoir - a heartwarming tale of a small Jewish girl trekking across Europe and living with wolves - the Massachusetts author yesterday admitted the whole story was a hoax. In a statement issued by her Belgian lawyer, Misha Defonseca of Dudley, whose book, “Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years,” has been translated into 18 languages and is the basis for a new French movie, “Survivre avec les Loups” (”Surviving With the Wolves”), confessed that she is not Jewish and that she spent the war safely in Brussels. [Boston Globe]
Nominees for the 28th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced Thursday, along with the winner of this year’s Robert Kirsch Award. Finalists in nine categories were unveiled at the National Arts Club in Manhattan by Kenneth Turan, a Times film critic and director of the Times Book Prizes, and David L. Ulin, Times book editor. The winners will be announced April 25 at UCLA’s Royce Hall as part of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. [LA Times]
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