Our Man in Boston: More From Gore Vidal [Back in the Day]
The Morning News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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Franzen is “sad” about Oprah ending her show
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections, famously refused to allow his book to be part of Oprah’s book club in 2001. Oprah announced yesterday that she will end her talk show in 2011, after 25 years on air. Franzen told The Daily Beast: Oprah’s show is the last place on the networks where serious books still [...]
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New Moon: The awakening of the new...
Quigley (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
New Moon: The awakening of the new century’s first generation By Bernie Quigley - for The Hill on 11/20/09 From my point of view President Obama is the most intelligent and savvy of Democratic Presidents to come to power in the post-war period. He has a sensory intuition which allows him to catch up quickly on things and he is far better at external things than internal things. China ambassador...
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Colum McCann, Phillip Hoose Among National Book...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Colum McCann, Phillip Hoose Among National Book Award Winners By Calvin Reid -- Publishers Weekly, 11/18/2009 11:10:00 PM Novelist Colum McCann , (pic left, photo by Brendan Bourke) , won the 2009 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel Let the Great World Spin (Random House); Gore Vidal (awarded the medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters) was rambling, witty and profound as...
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James Franco Fills the Hiatus by Texting
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
James Franco, actor, creative writing student, and soon-to-be published author, attended last night's National Book Awards at Cipriani downtown, and hence spent most of the evening basking in the attention of being the most famous person at the party: He was more recognizable than honoree Gore Vidal, more rakishly handsome than Dave Eggers, and definitely more rich than anyone else in the room. Franco...
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Ben-Hur: The Book That Shook the World
monochrom (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
"Hate keeps a man alive." Those famous words do not actually appear in the original 1880 novel Ben-Hur by General Lew Wallace. Karl Tunberg, or more likely Christopher Fry or Gore Vidal (there was a dispute over the screenplay credit), gave that line to Roman patrician Quintus Arrius as he confronted the magnificent, nearly-naked galley slave Judah Ben-Hur, played by Charlton Heston, in the...
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Colum McCann Takes NBA Fiction Prize
Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The National Book Award winners were announced November 18 during a ceremony in New York City. These are probably the major US awards after the Pulitzer Prize, and there are several categories. The prize for fiction went to Irish author Colum McCann for Let the Great World Spin , which is based on life in New York City in the 1970s. The piece was described as an "indelibly hallucinatory portrait...
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Colum McCann wins national award for fiction
MSNBC.com: Today (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate American literature and to wonder about its future. McCann won the fiction prize for "Let the Great World Spin," a novel about daring, luck and mortality in the pre-digital world of 1970s New York. He has called his book an act of hope written in part as a response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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Gore Vidal: Profile of a Writer
Mike's Writing Workshop & Newsletter (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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2009 National Book Award winners
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
From The Christian Science Monitor: In the fiction category, the award went to Irish author Colum McCann for “Let the Great World Spin,” his novel focusing on the lives of various New Yorkers on the day in 1974 when French...
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Colum McCann novel wins national award for fiction - The Associated Press
Spanish Teaching (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
RTE.ie Colum McCann novel wins national award for fictionThe Associated PressNEW YORK — The 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate literature and to wonder about its future. Lifetime achievement winner Gore Vidal envisioned only pulp and dust Wednesday as he contemplated the state of books, while fellow …Vanderbilt biography wins National Book [...]
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NAMES+FACES: Depp is named People's sexiest man-- again
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
That's right, Mr. Wolverine Hugh Jackman. No repeat for you. Johnny Depp, 46, is People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive for 2009. The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star joins Brad Pitt (1995 and 2000) and George Clooney (1997 and 2006) as the mag's only repeat offenders.
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National Book Awards include McCann, Eggers, Vidal
Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The National Book Award for Fiction went to Colum McCann for his novel "Let the Great World Spin," a story of New York in 1974 that doubles as an allegory of 9/11. It was the final award at the black-tie...
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS: See Who Won (LIST)
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Check here for a list of winners. Names will be added as they are received. Best of 60 yrs of nba winners: Complete Stories of Flannery O'connor (was put to a vote on the web, 10,000 responses) Young people's literature: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Philip Hoose Poetry: Transcendental Studies by Keith Waldrop Non-fiction: The First Tycoon, by TJ Stiles Fiction Let the Great World Spin,...
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Ron Hogan is Tweeting the National Book...
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Ron Hogan is Tweeting the National Book Awards: GalleyCat Gore Vidal has just name-checked Sidney Lumet, Harry Cohn, & Orson Welles in the space of ten seconds, then segued to Afghanistan. #nba09