Julie Powell Wins Blooker Prize

Posted on April 3, 2006

Julie Powell has won the first annual Blooker Prize for her book, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, One Tiny Apartment Kitchen, which is based on her blog called The Julie/Julia Project. The book has sold over 100,000 copies. There are plans to make it into a movie.

Judge Paul Jones said in a statement, "A great blook isn't a website shoveled onto paper. Julie and Julia successfully makes the transition and grows as it goes, having learned from the blog readers. The deeply personal story here, the story of an obsession, leads us all to see what could be trivial and indulgent as a personal and as it turns out communal art, an art of transformation and of conquest (of egg dishes and of self-doubt)."

The other Blooker winners were Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest in Fiction and Totally Boned by Zach Miller in Comics.

Update: Amy Adams and Meryl Streep starred in the Julie & Julia film. Nora Ephron wrote the screenplay and directed.