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Topic: Literary Prizes

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Most writers get screwed

Anna March, Jen Fitzgerald, Ashley Ford, Ashley Perez

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Stephin Merritt, "mean" critic

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Inside the NYT "Notable" list

Details from Roz Chast's "Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir" and Alison Bechdel's "Are You My Mother?" (Bloomsbury USA/Mariner Books)

"This isn't literary"

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H.P. Lovecraft (Wikimedia)

Don't deny Lovecraft's racism

Franco Moretti (Verso Books)

Learning from failed books

James McBride (Reuters/Mike Cassese)

Book awards get it right

Rachel Kushner, George Saunders (Lucy Raven/AP/Evan Agostini)

Literary prize smackdown!

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National Book Awards wise up

National Book Award winners Katherine Boo (left) and Louise Erdrich (Heleen Welvaart/Angela Erdrich)

National Book Award winners

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In praise of Nobel obscurity

Genre fiction dissed again

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Anna Clark - Isak

What makes a book great?

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How the National Book Awards became irrelevant

Poet Tomas Transtromer wins Nobel in literature

Associated Press

Philip Roth and Carmen Callil (inset)

Women are allowed to hate Philip Roth

The Associated Press

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An illustration from "Beauty and the Beast"

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson

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