November means many things to many folks: Day of the Dead, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, football weekends. There is another—albeit less known—cultural event each November. Every mid-November the National Book Foundation gathers in Manhattan for a celebration of the past year’s written word. The zenith of the evening comes with the presentation of the Nation Book Awards. See who the nominees were or place a hold on one of the 2008 winners:
Fiction
Shadow Country
Peter Matthiessen cut, revamped, and reformed his Watson trilogy
Nonfiction
The Hemingses of Monticello: an American Family
Annette Gordon-Reed discusses the close relationship between the Hemingses and Jefferson families
Poetry
Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems
a selection from Mark Doty’s seven books of poetry.
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