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Salman Rushdie, Percival Everett and Miranda July are National Book Award finalists
Read full article: Salman Rushdie, Percival Everett and Miranda July are National Book Award finalistsSalman Rushdie’s memoir about his near-fatal stabbing, “Knife,” and Percival Everett’s revisionist historical novel, “James,” are among the finalists for the 75th annual National Book Awards.
Percival Everett, Rachel Kushner and Miranda July are fiction nominees for National Book Awards
Read full article: Percival Everett, Rachel Kushner and Miranda July are fiction nominees for National Book AwardsPercival Everett’s “James,” his acclaimed retelling of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” is a fiction nominee for the National Book Awards.
For novelists of Westerns, Cormac McCarthy transcended — and reinvented — the genre
Read full article: For novelists of Westerns, Cormac McCarthy transcended — and reinvented — the genreIn his obituaries, Cormac McCarthy has been widely praised as a descendant of William Faulkner and Herman Melville among others, those excavators of the American spirit whose biblically influenced prose raised narratives to tragic and poetic heights.