Albanian Writer Wins Booker Prize

The Albanian author Ismail Kadare won the 1st Man Booker International Prize for his body of work. Kadare was named earlier this month as the recipient of the $108,000 prize, beating a field that included Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margaret Atwood of Canada, American writer Saul Bellow, Czech Milan Kundera and Britain's Ian McEwan and Muriel Spark.
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/entertainment/literature_and_authors.

You can learn more about Kadare's life and work from the online database Contemporary Authors

This Week in the New Yorker

Recent issues of the New Yorker include debut fiction by Uwem Akpan, Karen Russell, and Justin Tussing and new fiction by J.M. Coetzee, recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Check out an abridged version of the magazine at http://www.newyorker.com/main/magazine. The complete text is available for UB students, faculty, and staff in the Lockwood Library. Check the Bison catalog for details.

New Books from UB's English Faculty

Feature of the Month:
Experiencing Tess of the d' Urbervilles : a Deweyan account by Arthur Efron


http://www.rodopi.nl/


A copy is available in Lockwood Library. Check the UB Bison catalog for details!

Online Resources at UB

Feature of the Month:
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. Topics covered include English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.

Students, faculty, and staff can access EEBO at
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/eeb.html

Summer Reading Recommendations

Catch up on your leisure reading this summer. Check out these lists of recommended titles for you and your family members:

New York Times Book Review

American Library Association's Recommended Reading for Children and Their families