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  • It was considered a huge upset when The Moviegoer<\/em> beat out Catch-22<\/em>, Revolutionary Road<\/em>, and Franny and Zooey<\/em> for the 1962 National Book Award. Slate asks: Was the fix in?<\/a> And why? <\/li>\n
  • Speaking of snubbing Richard Yates:\u00a0\u201cEach time Yates shuffled into Roads that summer, I avoided making eye contact. Why didn\u2019t he get help, join AA?\u201d Leslie Absher <\/a>recounts her interactions with the author.<\/li>\n
  • Books written from beyond the grave<\/a>. Dead Mark Twain was especially prolific. <\/li>\n
  • You may be dead before you finish these: a slideshow of those books most difficult to finish<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • He apparently hated beards, and other trivia about Roald Dahl<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    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:\u00a0\u201cEach time Yates shuffled into Roads that summer, I avoided making eye contact. 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