Michelle Obama to visit 10 cities on book tour
Michelle Obama will visit 10 cities to promote her memoir “Becoming,” a tour featuring arenas to accommodate crowds far too big for any bookstore. The former first lady will begin at the United Center in her native Chicago on Nov. 13, the book’s release date. She will finish at the American Airlines Center in Dallas on Dec. 17, Live Nation and the Crown Publishing Group says. In between, appearances will include Barclays Center in New York City, the Pepsi Center Arena in Denver and The Forum in Los Angeles. Obama and former President Barack Obama each have been working on memoirs, for which they negotiated a multimillion dollar deal with Crown. No date has been set for his book, although it’s expected in 2019.
New audiobook features Biden
An upcoming audiobook will feature former Vice President Joe Biden talking about his late son Beau with such interviewers as Stephen Colbert, Constance Wu and Aaron Sorkin.
“Conversations With Joe” will be released Oct. 16 by Audible, the publisher and distributor owned by Amazon.com. The recordings are taken from Biden’s “American Promise” tour from last year, when he was promoting his memoir “Promise Me, Dad.” He centered the book on his reflections on Beau Biden, who died in 2015 of brain cancer.
— Associated Press
Audible says that “Conversations With Joe” will feature Biden’s thoughts on his son’s life and his family’s determination to honor his memory. Beau Biden was an Iraq War veteran who later served as Delaware’s attorney general.
New PEN award honors writers in prison
A new prize for writers in prison has been established by PEN America, the literary and human rights organization.
The PEN/Edward Bunker Prize in Fiction will honor works of short fiction.
Bunker had an extensive criminal record and was still in prison when he wrote his first book, “No Beast So Fierce,” which came out in 1973. He was paroled two years later and went on to write such novels as “Little Boy Blue” and to appear in such films as “Reservoir Dogs” and “The Running Man.” He died in 2005.
Winners of the new award will receive a clear Swintec typewriter, the kind used by Bunker.
The Bunker Prize will become part of PEN’s annual Prison Writing Awards, for which other categories include poetry and nonfiction.
— Associated Press
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