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Did
The Moviegoer
Fix the NBAs? And Other News
By
Sadie Stein
November 5, 2012
On the Shelf
It was considered a huge upset when
The Moviegoer
beat out
Catch-22
,
Revolutionary Road
, and
Franny and Zooey
for the 1962 National Book Award. Slate asks:
Was the fix in?
And why?
Speaking of snubbing Richard Yates: “Each time Yates shuffled into Roads that summer, I avoided making eye contact. Why didn’t he get help, join AA?”
Leslie Absher
recounts her interactions with the author.
Books written from beyond the grave
. Dead Mark Twain was especially prolific.
You may be dead before you finish these: a slideshow of
those books most difficult to finish
.
He apparently hated beards, and other
trivia about Roald Dahl
.
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