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The Latest News from K.L. Cook
- K. L. Cook's The Girl from Charnelle Wins the 2007 Willa Award
The Girl from Charnelle has won the 2007 Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction. Named after Willa Cather and awarded annually for outstanding literature featuring women's stories set in the West, the WILLA Awards are chosen by a distinguished panel of twenty-one professional librarians. Read more...
- K. L. Cook Named Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
K. L. Cook is the Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York for the 2007-08 academic year. Former Viebranz Visiting Professors of Creative Writing at St. Lawrence have been Robin Hemley, John Daniel, Heather Sellers, and Trudy Lewis.
- The Girl from Charnelle Named to Four "2006 Best Books" Lists
The Girl from Charnelle was selected as a 2006 Southwest Book of the Year, a 2006 School Library Journal Best Adult Book for High School Students, a 2006 Mississippi Press/Gulf Coast Live Best Book of the Year, and an Editor's Choice pick of the Historical Novel Society.
- The Girl from Charnelle in Paperback on March 1
The paperback of The Girl from Charnelle will be published by Harper Perennial on March 1, 2007. Extra "P.S." features include an essay by Cook about the inspiration for the novel, an interview, a "1960 in Context" section, and Cook's favorite novels about 1950s-60s small-town America. Click on "read more" to order paperback from Amazon.com Read more...
- Cook Essay in When I Was a Loser Anthology
K. L. Cook's essay, "A Nova, an Eyelash, a Snoring Man: Notes on Adolescent Summers," will be published in the anthology When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School in March. The anthology is edited by John McNally. Read more...
- Backstory for The Girl From Charnelle
Cook's essay about the inspiration for The Girl From Charnelle is featured as the July 27, 2006 entry on a cool new site called "Backstory." Click the link below to read Cook's essay and other "stories behind the stories" for recent novels. Read more...
- Editor's Choice Selection by Historical Novel Society
The Girl From Charnelle has just been named an "Editor's Choice" selection by the Historical Novel Society. This organization reviews every novel dealing with an historical theme (800+ reviews a year) and selects twenty titles each quarter for special mention. Click the link below for the Editor's Choice picks and reviews. Read more...
- The Girl From Charnelle Reviews
Read reviews from Houston Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, Historical Novel Society (Editor's Choice), Library Journal (starred), School Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly, among others, for The Girl From Charnelle. Click the following link, or go to "Reviews," to read more. Read more...
- Book Tour Article in Poets & Writers
Cook's article, "On the Road: The Do-It-Yourself Book Tour," appeared in the November/December Issue of Poets & Writers. Click the link below to read the full article. Read more...
- Three New Stories in Arts & Letters
Three new short stories by K. L. Cook--"Chalk Dust on a Dress," "The Couple Upstairs," and "First Birth"--and a review of Cook's collection of stories, Last Call, appear in the Fall 2005 issue (#14) of Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture. Click the link to order the issue. Read more...
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