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12/02/07 - The New York Times Book Review issued its list of 100 Notable Books of the Year, naming both BEARING THE BODY by Ehud Havazelet and VARIETIES OF DISTURBANCE by Lydia Davis.

10/10/07 - VARIETIES OF DISTURBANCE, Lydia Davis’s collection of short stories, is named one of five finalists for the National Book Award. The New York Times described the book as "haunting, dreamlike and yet indisputably real."

10/05/07 - Karen Russell appears at the 2007 New Yorker Festival Fiction Night, reading alongside Jonathan Lethem. Fiction Night is an annual evening of paired readings by writers whose stories have appeared in The New Yorker, and conversations between writers on the themes that feature in their work.

09/19/07 - The film adaptation of Stephen McCauley’s novel TRUE ENOUGH was released a week ago by A4 Films in France. Directed by Academy Award-winning director Sam Karmann, "La Vérité ou Presque" was the highest grossing French film in its first week of its release. It is McCauley’s second novel to have a life in film, as 20^th Century Fox released THE OBJECT OF MY AFFECTION in 1998.

09/12/07 - The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction announces that Ehud Havazelet’s acclaimed first novel BEARING THE BODY, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in August, is one of seven finalists for its 2007 John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize.

08/24/07 - Karen Russell’s novel ST. LUCY’S HOME FOR GIRLS RAISED BY WOLVES is long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award. The award is dedicated to “spotting and advancing new writing talent” and carries a prize of £10,000.

06/04/07 - The Glorious Ones, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's new musical about theatre history's major players, will be staged at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse in 2007-08, Variety reported. The play opens on November 5, 2007.

The musical traces the lives of commedia dell'arte troupers in the 1600s, and is inspired by a novel by Francine Prose first published in 1974.

Graciela Daniele, who directed and choreographed the show's world premiere this spring at Pittsburgh Public Theater, will repeat her duties. She staged and choreographed Ahrens and Flaherty's Dessa Rose at the Newhouse, and has been a frequent A&F collaborator (Ragtime, for example). A&F's My Favorite Year and A Man of No Importance were also produced by Lincoln Center Theater, at the Broadway Beaumont and Off-Broadway Newhouse, respectively. HarperCollins plans to reissue the Prose novel to coincide with the Lincoln Center premiere.

02/16/07 - The new lineup for the 2007 BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES anthology is announced, and guest editor Stephen King has chosen “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” the title story of Karen Russell’s 2006 short story collection, and Aryn Kyle's "Allegiance," which was originally published in Ploughshares Magazine.

02/06/07 - Granta Magazine anoints twenty-one under-35 literary stars as the 21 Best of Young American Novelists. Gary Shteyngart, author of ABSURDISTAN and THE RUSSIAN DEBUTANTE'S HANDBOOK, and Karen Russell, author of ST. LUCY'S HOME FOR GIRLS RAISED BY WOLVES are among the winners. As noted on www.Granta.com, the honor is meant to distinguish “a new generation of American writing which shows, beside its talent, what bothers and inspires the imagination of modern America.”

12/10/06 - The New York Times Book Review declares Gary Shteyngart’s ABSURDISTAN one of its Ten Best Books of 2006, calling it “smart, funny and, in the end, extraordinarily rich and moving.” The book was also named one of the best books of the year by Time, the Washington Post Book World, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, and Rocky Mountain News.