Local author releases book on Cold War

Local author releases book on Cold War

Local author Dr. Patrick Pacalo recently released his ninth book, “The Recalcitrant ‘Namer Nation: Cold Warfare VII.”

The work offers Pacalo’s views on when the Cold War began and ended. While many believe the Cold War commenced after World War II and fell along with the Berlin Wall, Pacalo argues that the state of political and military tension began in 1848 with Karl Marx and ended only in 2015.

The book is available to order at any bookstore or Internet book outlet.

Lena Dunham to help oversee imprint

NEW YORK

Lenny, the feminist newsletter co-founded by author and “Girls” creator Lena Dunham, is becoming Lenny the publishing imprint.

Random House announced recently that Dunham and Jenni Konner will oversee a line of books featuring “exciting, emerging voices” in fiction and nonfiction. The imprint will launch in 2017, with a “select” number of titles each year.

Random House published Dunham’s best-selling “Not That Kind of Girl” in 2014.

Alexander receives $50,000 Jackson Prize

NEW YORK

Will Alexander, one of the country’s most imaginative and unpredictable poets, has won the 10th annual $50,000 Jackson Poetry Prize.

Poets & Writers, a nonprofit literary resource that presents the Jackson award, told The Associated Press last week that Alexander is being honored for “his peerless inventiveness over the last three decades.”

According to Poets & Writers, the Jackson prize is given “to an American poet of exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition.”

Staff/wire report