Our Man in Boston: More From Gore Vidal [Back in the Day]
The Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
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New Moon: The awakening of the new...
Quigley (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
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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Book awards honor Colum McCann, Eggers, Vidal
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
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 honorary winner Dave...
- Colum McCann novel wins national award for fiction - The Washington Times
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Colum McCann, Phillip Hoose Among National Book...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
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) | 11/19/2009
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) | 11/19/2009
"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) | 11/19/2009
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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Providence poet Waldrop wins National Book Award
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
By News staff Waldrop Providence poet Keith Waldrop's "Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy" has won the National Book Award for poetry. Waldrop, who lives on the East Side, has taught at Brown for 41 years, where he is the Brooke Russell Astor Professor of Humanities . Waldrop, 76, has written about 20 books of poetry. He's also an actor, director and publisher. Critics and admirers have called...
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Colum McCann wins National Book award for fiction
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Irish-born writer's novel Let the Great World Spin, focused on Philip Petit's World Trade Centre tightrope walk, acclaimed as 'gravity-defying feat' Colum McCann won the fiction prize at the National Book awards in New York last night for his novel Let the Great World Spin, an allegorical story inspired by the events of 9/11 and set around Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between the twin towers in...
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Gore Vidal: Profile of a Writer
Mike's Writing Workshop & Newsletter (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS: See Who Won (LIST)
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
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) | 11/19/2009
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
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Liveblogging the National Book Awards
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
9:00 Eggers reads a letter to publishers from a girl says, "I'll only read books on paper. That's how my parents did it," and is greeted by loud cheers from the crowd. "She followed with expletives about a certain digital reader," Eggers added. 8:52 In her speech before giving out the Literarian Award, Samantha Hunt just compared Dave Eggers to Barney Rosset and Lawrence Ferlinghetti...
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Barack Obama In 2006: Khalid Shiekh Mohammed Will Get “Full Military Trial”
Below The Beltway (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Similar Posts:Parents Of Daniel Pearl Speak Out Against Plan To Send Khalid Shiekh Mohammed To Civilian Court FBI Agent: Torture Didn’t Help Get Information From Khalid Sheikh Mohammed No, The Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Story Does Not Prove That “Torture Works” Barack Obama, Ron Paul Got Most Donations From Active Duty Military Gore Vidal Unloads On [...]
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Gore Vidal: a life in pictures
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
From The Telegraph: Writing in his new book, Snapshots in History’s Glare, Gore Vidal begins one paragraph with the words: ‘Despite never having been very social…’. He then proceeds to talk of asking Andy Warhol, Mick and Bianca Jagger and...