11th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards

Call for Entries (books published in 2010). Deadline for submission is 5 January 2011. Go to Submission Form.

Letters About Literature 2010-2011

Now accepting submissions. Deadline for entry is 10 December 2010. Go to Guidelines/Entry Form.

Senate President Therese Murray presents a citation of commendation to her constituent, Kingston resident Neale P. L. Johnson, an LAL 2010 honoree. Read More About It.

10th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards

will be featured at National Book Festival on September 25 and Boston Book Festival on October 16. Read more about it and see all the "Must Read" books in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children's/young adult literature HERE.

National Book Festival 2010

It will be another great day in DC on Saturday, September 25, 2010, as we gather for the 10th annual National Book Festival, sponsored by the Library of Congress and co-hosted by President and Mrs Obama.

Massachusetts authors confirmed to participate include M.T. Anderson, Jules Feiffer, Julia Glass, Allegra Goodman, Norton Juster, Anita Silvey, and E. O. Wilson. Read more about it.

See Photos of the 2009 Festival.

New Works

Massachusetts poets with new books in 2009 read at the 2nd Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Lowell, Massachusetts. Go to the Webcast.

The Literary Map of Massachusetts

We are mapping the sites and sounds of books and reading in our commonwealth. Go to the Online Map.

Quote of Note:

'When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser. -- Keith Richards

(Yes, THAT Keith Richards. Thanks to Nancy Anthony, Salem State College, for the alert.) Read more.

What We Are Reading, City by City, in the United States

Check out this slide show at The Daily Beast. -- Go to Slide Show --