roll out the red carpet

the winners for the National Book Award are:

• Young People’s Literature: “What I Saw and How I Lied” by Judy Blundell (on order)
• Fiction:  “Shadow Country” by Peter Matthiessen
• Nonfiction: “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family” by Annette Gordon-Reed
• Poetry: “Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems” by Mark Doty (on order)

Give ‘em What They Want does a nice round-up of articles about the winners.

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