Kipen: New American Lit Awards Have A Conflict

So there’s to be an Oscars for the book world – the Quill Awards. Televised on TV too. But David Kipen has a problem with one of the overseers of the awards – Reed Business International, the company that owns Publishers Weekly: “Now, PW is a pleasant and frequently useful publication. Unaccountably — maybe by mistake? — it’s even hired a gifted and energetic literary journalist, Sara Nelson, to become its new editor. But still, in co- administering an annual awards ceremony honoring the very industry PW covers, the magazine’s conflicts of interest are, not to put too fine a point on it, ripe for the plucking.”