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Salman Rushdie's memoir of his attack is among 12 books up for a top nonfiction prize
Read full article: Salman Rushdie's memoir of his attack is among 12 books up for a top nonfiction prizeSalman Rushdie’s account of a stabbing attack that blinded him in one eye is among contenders announced Thursday for a prestigious nonfiction book prize.
In war saga 'The Sympathizer,' Vietnamese voices are no longer stuck in the background
Read full article: In war saga 'The Sympathizer,' Vietnamese voices are no longer stuck in the backgroundFor decades, Vietnamese people often been relegated to the background in popular cinematic depictions of the Vietnam War.
Geraldine Brooks' 'Horse' and biography of George Floyd win Dayton literary awards
Read full article: Geraldine Brooks' 'Horse' and biography of George Floyd win Dayton literary awardsGeraldine Brooks’ “Horse,” a novel about race and forgotten history, and Robert Samuels’ and Toluse Olorunnipa’s “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice” have won awards from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation.
Winfrey, Maddow and Schwarzenegger among those helping NYC's 92nd Street Y mark 150th anniversary
Read full article: Winfrey, Maddow and Schwarzenegger among those helping NYC's 92nd Street Y mark 150th anniversaryOprah Winfrey, Rachel Maddow and Arnold Schwarzenegger will be among those appearing this fall at the 92nd Street Y, as the New York City cultural institution marks its 150th anniversary.
Magazine faces criticism for giving award to Richard Ford.
Read full article: Magazine faces criticism for giving award to Richard Ford.NEW YORK, NY Bruce Springsteen will be presenting a lifetime achievement award next spring to Richard Ford, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Independence Day" centers on a real estate agent from Springsteen's native New Jersey. But not everyone is happy about Ford's receiving the Hadada Award, bestowed by the Paris Review at the magazine's annual spring Revel. Others, including author Roxane Gay, cited Ford's history of hostile behavior toward writers who criticized his work. In 2004, he spat on Colson Whitehead after Whitehead wrote a negative review of Ford's "A Multitude of Sins." The Paris Review didn't have an immediate comment Tuesday.