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Oprah Winfrey on Impact of ‘The Color Purple’ and New Movie Adaptation: ‘The Power of a Story Well Told’
Oprah Winfrey paid tribute to a particularly influential story. At the 74th National Book Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner, held Wednesday in New York City, Winfrey, 69, discussed the importance of diverse books and “all those young people out there who found their voices in books written for them or by them” in a speech.…
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By popular demand, Great Books 2 – ‘Great Science Books’
The College of Humanities’ new Great Books course has been a hit, according to faculty and students. “I’ve loved teaching in Great Books, a chance to hear other professors and actually talk across disciplines with students,” said Scott Black, professor of English. “It’s like being back in college.” “Each week it’s been a pleasure to…
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Review: Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s books continue to cast a spell over readers.
Anyone who received an illustrated book of saints for their first Communion, with depictions of St. Lucy holding out a platter with her eyeballs on it and St. Sebastian writhing and arrow-pierced, can appreciate how early exposure to gory images of suffering saints might spark ideas for a future horror writer. The horror author creating…
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What’s So Controversial About the National Book Awards?
Photo: National Book Foundation via YouTube As 18 nominees and winners shuffled offstage after last night’s 74th annual National Book Awards ceremony, a reporter couldn’t help but state the obvious to another colleague: “It was so not controversial at all.” “It,” of course, referred to the much-whispered-about pro-Palestine statement that closed the event. Read by…
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LITERARY FICTION
By Anthony Cummins For The Daily Mail Published: 17:01 EST, 16 November 2023 | Updated: 17:10 EST, 16 November 2023
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2023 National Book Awards for Young People’s Literature in Photos
On Wednesday evening, November 15, book publishers, authors, and agents gathered at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan’s financial district for the 74th National Book Awards. From that ceremony, we present the five finalists for the Young People’s Literature prize, along with their editors. Click here to see our coverage of winner Dan Santat’s acceptance speech.…
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Magic, nudity, dark satire: ‘Unstageable’ Russian literary masterpiece brought to life in Sydney
Eamon Flack remembers the exact moment he first encountered The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov’s darkly satirical classic set in Soviet Russia. It was the winter of 2000, and he was “living a grim existence in Brisbane”, he tells ABC RN’s The Stage Show. A friend, a musician he’d recently met, gave Flack a copy…
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9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. At the National Book Awards last night, the nonfiction chair Ada Ferrer explained what she and her fellow judges had been looking for as they narrowed the field from hundreds of submissions to five finalists and finally one winner (Ned Blackhawk’s “The Rediscovery of…
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UCLA’s Justin Torres wins National Book Award for ‘Blackouts’
Justin Torres, a UCLA professor of English, has won the National Book Award for Fiction. The award was presented Wednesday evening in a New York City ceremony hosted by actor-director LeVar Burton and featuring a presentation by Oprah Winfrey. The National Book Foundation also presented honors for nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature.…
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Book Review: Back to Bangka, by Georgina Banks
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