Author Bret Lott (Jewel, A Song I Knew By Heart) is to receive The Denise Levertov Award on May 8, 2007, at the Seattle Art Museum. He is the fourth to receive this honor. “The Levertov Award is presented annually in May to an artist or creative writer whose work exemplifies a serious and sustained engagement with the Judeo-Christian tradition,” reports Image Journal.
In related news, literary awards are important cues for readers who might not notice or hear of a book otherwise, according to Maya Jaggi. She writes, “Good fiction is a dialogue between story and reader, to which a reader brings not only personal history but imaginative experience of other books. Judging is as much about being open to others’ readings as trying to persuade them of your own.”
Apropos the quote on ‘ten mistakes’ I can recommend a book called ‘Eat, shoots and leaves’ by Lynne Truss. I heard an interview she gave on the mothercorp (CBC) and she managed to be funny and entertaining on the subject. (How I don’t know how :=)
I greatly enjoyed Bret Lott’s book “Reed’s Beach”. I rarely see it mentioned in connection to him.
To me, it has all the eliments of a book that will stay with a person forever. I didn’t get that so much from “Jewel”.