Archive - August 19, 2011

[Books published in 2010 and Nominated for the Peace Corps Writers Award] Paul Cowan Non-Fiction Award Faith, Interrupted: A Spiritual Journey by Eric Lax (Micronesia 1966-68) Henry Walters and Bernard Berenson: Collector and Connoisseur by Stanley Mazaroff (Philippines 1961-63) The Secrets of People Who Never Get Sick by Gene Stone (Niger 1974-76) Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries Are Leading the Way by Steven Radelet (Western Samoa 1981-83) Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell (Uzbekistan 1996-97) Lyndon B. Johnson by Charles Peters (PC/Staff 1961-63) Thoreau the Land Surveyor by Patrick Chura (Lithuania 1992-94) Maria Thomas Fiction Award Last Train From Cuernavaca by Lucia St. Clair Robson (Venezuela 1964-66) Green Pearl Odyssey by Reilly Ridgell (Micronesia 1971-73) The Plum Rains and Other Stories by John Givens (Korea 1967-69)  Cold Snap: Bulgaria Stories by Cynthia Morrison Phoel (Bulgaria 1994-96)  Gloryland by Shelton Johnson (Liberia 1982-84)  A Dead Hand: A Crime . . .

In an earlier blog I told you about Tony D’Souza (Ivory Coast 2000-02; Madagascar 2002-03)  new novel, Mule, that is being published in September. Here’s how his publisher Houghton Mifflin is promoting it on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMa0jOijtx4