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'Demon Copperhead' author Barbara Kingsolver to receive National Book Award for lifetime achievement
NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Kingsolver, this year's recipient of a National Book Award medal for literary achievement, remembers well the years she couldn't imagine receiving such honors. “I just felt this continuous skepticism, not from readers but from critics and the gatekeepers....
Noel Parmentel Jr., a literary gadfly with some famous friends, dies at 98
NEW YORK (AP) — Noel E. Parmentel Jr., an essayist, pundit, filmmaker and man about town who satirized politicians across ideology, dated and helped promote a young Joan Didion and otherwise charmed and infuriated New York’s literary elite, has died at age 98. Parmentel's...
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