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Event: The Publishing Triangle Awards
Apr. 27th, 2010 10:51 amDate: April 29, 2010
Time: 19.00 - 22.00
Location: Tishman Auditorium/The New School
66 West 12th Street
New York, NY
http://www.publishingtriangle.org/
CELEBRATING
THE LEADERSHIP AWARD: MICHELE KARLSBERG
BILL WHITEHEAD AWARD: BLANCHE WIESEN COOK
ANNOUNCING
THE FERRO GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBT FICTION
THE EDMUND WHITE AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION
THE LORDE-GUNN POERTY AWARDS
THE SHILTS-GRAHN NONFICTION AWARDS
Blanche Wiesen Cook is the 2010 recipient of the Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, named in honor of the legendary editor of the 1970s and 1980s. Cook, a historian, activist, and scholar, has received near universal acclaim for her multibook biography of Eleanor Roosevelt. Volume 1, 1884-1933, published in 1992, won the Lambda Literary Award and Los Angeles Times Book Award. The second volume, The Defining Years, 1933-1938, appeared in 1999 and the final book is forthcoming. She is Distinguished Professor of History and Women’s Studies at the John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The editor of Crystal Eastman on Women & Revolution, Cook has also edited and contributed to many anthologies and written on LGBT issues throughout her career. For more than twenty years, she produced and hosted her own program for Radio Pacifica, “Women and the World in the 1980s” (originally called “Activists and Agitators”). She was a founder and co-chair of the Freedom of Information and Access Committee of the Organization of American Historians, which was actively committed to maintaining the integrity of the Freedom of Information Act.
Veteran book publicist Michele Karlsberg is the winner of the Publishing Triangle’s Leadership Award. Created in 2002, this award recognizes contributions to lesbian and gay literature by those who are not primarily writers—editors, agents, librarians, and others. As a book publicist, Karlsberg, has been an enthusiastic advocate of LGBT literature for two decades. Among the authors she has worked for are Kate Clinton, Bob Morris, Jewelle Gomez, Felice Picano, Ellen Hart, and Shawn Stewart Ruff, as well as the two most recent winners of the Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, Katherine V. Forrest and Martin Duberman. As curator of Outspoken, a nationwide gay and lesbian literary series, she helps new and established voices reach a wider audience. Karlsberg also has produced the first Olivia Book Expo on the Holland Americas line, and is the co-editor of the anthologies To Be Continued and To Be Continued Take Two.
( Finalists Announced for Best LGBT Fiction, Poetry, and Non-Fiction )
Time: 19.00 - 22.00
Location: Tishman Auditorium/The New School
66 West 12th Street
New York, NY
http://www.publishingtriangle.org/
CELEBRATING
THE LEADERSHIP AWARD: MICHELE KARLSBERG
BILL WHITEHEAD AWARD: BLANCHE WIESEN COOK
ANNOUNCING
THE FERRO GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBT FICTION
THE EDMUND WHITE AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION
THE LORDE-GUNN POERTY AWARDS
THE SHILTS-GRAHN NONFICTION AWARDS
Blanche Wiesen Cook is the 2010 recipient of the Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, named in honor of the legendary editor of the 1970s and 1980s. Cook, a historian, activist, and scholar, has received near universal acclaim for her multibook biography of Eleanor Roosevelt. Volume 1, 1884-1933, published in 1992, won the Lambda Literary Award and Los Angeles Times Book Award. The second volume, The Defining Years, 1933-1938, appeared in 1999 and the final book is forthcoming. She is Distinguished Professor of History and Women’s Studies at the John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The editor of Crystal Eastman on Women & Revolution, Cook has also edited and contributed to many anthologies and written on LGBT issues throughout her career. For more than twenty years, she produced and hosted her own program for Radio Pacifica, “Women and the World in the 1980s” (originally called “Activists and Agitators”). She was a founder and co-chair of the Freedom of Information and Access Committee of the Organization of American Historians, which was actively committed to maintaining the integrity of the Freedom of Information Act.
Veteran book publicist Michele Karlsberg is the winner of the Publishing Triangle’s Leadership Award. Created in 2002, this award recognizes contributions to lesbian and gay literature by those who are not primarily writers—editors, agents, librarians, and others. As a book publicist, Karlsberg, has been an enthusiastic advocate of LGBT literature for two decades. Among the authors she has worked for are Kate Clinton, Bob Morris, Jewelle Gomez, Felice Picano, Ellen Hart, and Shawn Stewart Ruff, as well as the two most recent winners of the Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, Katherine V. Forrest and Martin Duberman. As curator of Outspoken, a nationwide gay and lesbian literary series, she helps new and established voices reach a wider audience. Karlsberg also has produced the first Olivia Book Expo on the Holland Americas line, and is the co-editor of the anthologies To Be Continued and To Be Continued Take Two.
( Finalists Announced for Best LGBT Fiction, Poetry, and Non-Fiction )
1) Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin. Reading this series when I was a teenager made me want to be a writer. I felt such loss when I finished a book, because the characters had become part of me. I internalized Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, to the point that I still sometimes talk like him. I felt Mary Ann Singleton´s angst when she felt like she couldn´t connect to others upon moving to San Francisco, and I sobbed when characters starting dying of AIDS. To this day, it is my greatest dream to create a world as richly textured and believable as the one Maupin created at 28 Barbary Lane. 
2) Music for Torching by A.M. Homes. I don´t think there´s a writer on this planet whose work I admire more than that of Homes, who was my teacher when I was an undergraduate at Columbia University. She´s written so many amazing novels, but this one stands out to me for its stark treatment of suburbia. Homes is a dangerous writer, it has been said, and I agree. She delves into the parts of our tranquil suburban world where no one is supposed to go. The scene where the main couple has sex while sobbing and saying things to each other like "I´m bored. I´m so bored, it´s not even funny" stands as my favorite written sex scene of all time. I like to read sex scenes I haven´t read before, and that one I definitely hadn´t read. It also spurred me to write a sex scene in my forthcoming novel "Father, Son, and Holy Buddha" which is, I promise, totally off the hook. 
Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsberg 
1) Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin. Reading this series when I was a teenager made me want to be a writer. I felt such loss when I finished a book, because the characters had become part of me. I internalized Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, to the point that I still sometimes talk like him. I felt Mary Ann Singleton´s angst when she felt like she couldn´t connect to others upon moving to San Francisco, and I sobbed when characters starting dying of AIDS. To this day, it is my greatest dream to create a world as richly textured and believable as the one Maupin created at 28 Barbary Lane. 
2) Music for Torching by A.M. Homes. I don´t think there´s a writer on this planet whose work I admire more than that of Homes, who was my teacher when I was an undergraduate at Columbia University. She´s written so many amazing novels, but this one stands out to me for its stark treatment of suburbia. Homes is a dangerous writer, it has been said, and I agree. She delves into the parts of our tranquil suburban world where no one is supposed to go. The scene where the main couple has sex while sobbing and saying things to each other like "I´m bored. I´m so bored, it´s not even funny" stands as my favorite written sex scene of all time. I like to read sex scenes I haven´t read before, and that one I definitely hadn´t read. It also spurred me to write a sex scene in my forthcoming novel "Father, Son, and Holy Buddha" which is, I promise, totally off the hook. 
Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsberg