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Arts Nov 19

National Book Awards honor Charles Yu’s ‘Interior Chinatown,’ Malcolm X biography

By Hillel Italie, Associated Press

Arts Dec 26

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Author Sarah Broom on ‘The Yellow House’ and putting New Orleans East on the map

Sarah Broom’s 2019 memoir, “The Yellow House,” won the National Book Award for non-fiction. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Broom to discuss her mother and how an obsession with houses passed down two generations to the author herself, why Broom…

By Jeffrey Brown

Arts Oct 08

Marlon James, Laili Lalami are National Book Award nominees

None of the finalists has ever won a competitive National Book Award and only four have received any kind of recognition.

By Hillel Italie, Associated Press

Arts Sep 24

The Hate U Give
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Bestselling book ‘The Hate U Give’ tackles police violence against black teenagers

The young adult novel "The Hate U Give" tells the story of a teenager whose childhood friend is shot and killed by a police officer. In the book, now a finalist for a National Book Award and Kirkus Prize, author…

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Poetry Dec 20

Can a poem make the world a better place by documenting the darknesses around us?

Daniel Borzutzky's newest poetry collection, “The Performance of Becoming Human” feature themes of economic and political dysfunction. The collection was recently awarded the National Book Award for poetry.

By Mary Jo Brooks

Jun 01

Why do books about women rarely win top literary prizes?

By Joshua Barajas

Acclaimed author Nicola Griffith sifted through 15 years of prize-winning books for fiction and found that several of the top literary prizes have rarely awarded anything written from a women's point of view.

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Nov 24

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Writer Phil Klay returns to war and the strangeness of coming home for ‘Redeployment’

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“Redeployment,” a collection of stories about the Iraq War and the struggles veterans face when they return, was this year’s winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. Jeffrey Brown interviews writer and Marine Corps veteran Phil Klay about writing…

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Dec 26

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Tracking the breakdown of American social institutions in ‘The Unwinding’

Tracking the breakdown of American social institutions in 'The Unwinding'…

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Dec 02

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James McBride’s ‘The Good Lord Bird’ offers ‘room to laugh’ at difficult history

Author James McBride talks about slavery and humor in "The Good Lord Bird."…

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Dec 02

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James McBride’s ‘The Good Lord Bird’ offers ‘room to laugh’ at difficult history

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James McBride talks about the National Book Award winner in fiction, "The Good Lord Bird."…

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