Bret Harte - "Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories"

Jack London - "Jerry of the Islands"

Jacques Casanova de Seingalt - "To Paris And Prison: The False Nun"

Jacques Casanova de Seingalt - "The Eternal Quest: With Voltaire"

True Grit author to get award for southern writing
Charles Portis, the author of True Grit and Norwood, will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award in southern literature by Oxford American magazine, a literary quarterly that features writing from and about the American South.

China bars HIV-positive Aussie author
China has refused a visa to Australian writer Robert Dessaix on the grounds he is HIV-positive.

Doug Wright Awards finalists named
Cover artist Seth and web-comic creator Kate Beaton are among the finalists for the 2010 Doug Wright Awards for Canadian comics that were announced Friday.