The PW Morning Report, April 24, 2008

By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 4/24/2008 5:14:00 AM

Thursday, April 24, 2008

A daily round-up of the latest publishing news: Ozick Wins Two PEN Awards; Pie-in-the-Face for Friedman; Burroughs Memoir; Bush Night at the Y; Scalia on 60 Minutes; and London Critics Pan Gone With the Wind Musical

Cynthia Ozick Wins Two PEN Awards, reports AP
Eighty-year-old author is awarded the $5,000 PEN/Malamud prize for short fiction, and the $20,000 PEN/Nabokov award for "enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship"

Thomas Friedman Gets Pie in the Face During Speech at Brown University, reports HuffingtonPost
Two environmentalists attack the New York Times columnist and author of The World Is Flat, apparently believing that the only thing flat is Friedman’s brain waves

Augusten Burroughs Writes About His Savage Father in A Wolf at the Table
New York Times profiles the writer and his memoir from St. Martin’s about his father, calling it "more Stephen King than David Sedaris"

Laura and Jenna Bush’s Big Night at the 92nd Street Y, reports New York Times 
500 people turn up to listen to the Bushes read Read All About It!, their newest collaboration

Justice Scalia to Appear on 60 Minutes Sunday to Promote New Book, reports Reuters
The most conservative justice on the court will be there to talk about Making Your Case (Thomson West)

London Critics Pan Gone With the Wind Musical, reports Reuters
Margaret Mitchell’s classic tome fails to translate to the stage