Vincent Lam's Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures is one of three short story collections shortlisted for the prestigious American Story Prize. Past winners include Edwidge Danticat, Patrick O'Keeffe, and Mary Gordon. The winner is announced in New York on February 27th. Congratulations to Vincent Lam! www.thestoryprize.org

Frances Itani praises Kevin Patterson's "elegant style and compassionate vision" in a review of Consumption for The Washington Post.

Among those titles named to the Globe 100 list (Globe & Mail) this year were:

 Michael Winter's The Architects Are Here,
 David Adams Richards' The Lost Highway,
Shaena Lambert's Radiance,
JB MacKinnon and Alisa Smith's The 100 Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating
and Vaclav Havel's To the Castle and Back, translated by Paul Wilson.

The Quill & Quire has named Todd Babiak's The Book of Stanley, Shaena Lambert's Radiance, and Sandra Martin's The First Man in My Life to its 2007 Books of the Year list.

Read The New York Times Book Review, Sunday Oct 28