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"This isn't literary"

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Book awards get it right

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Literary prize smackdown!

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National Book Awards wise up

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In praise of Nobel obscurity

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Genre fiction dissed again

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Hilary Mantel lands on Booker Prize shortlist

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Nigerian wins Caine Prize

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What makes a book great?

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How the National Book Awards became irrelevant

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Poet Tomas Transtromer wins Nobel in literature

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Women are allowed to hate Philip Roth

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2011 Pulitzer winners in journalism and arts

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No sex, please, we're literary!

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Why do the National Book Awards bar fairy tales?

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Who will win the National Book Award for fiction?

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Booker Prize winner: "The Finkler Question"

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Why the Booker is the best literary award

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Is Shirley Jackson a great American writer?

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J.G. Farrell's "Troubles" wins "lost" Booker Prize

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Poet wins U.K.'s Costa Book of the Year

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