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NBAs in the News
Kurt
Vonnegut Memorial Library to Open
Vonnegut was a 1970 NBA
Finalist.
— Maryann Yin, Galleycat.com,
Aug 30
Event
preview: The AJC Decatur Book Festival
Five event highlights you can't miss
Patricia Smith is a 2009
NBA Poetry Finalist.
— Rosalind Bentley, accessAtlanta.com,
Aug. 30
Thomas
Pynchon on plagiarism
Pynchon was a 1974 NBA Winner.
— Letters of Note: Correspondence
deserving of a wider audience, Aug 24
Author,
Playwright Don DeLillo to Receive 2010 Saint Louis Literary
Award
— Jeanette Grider, Saint
Louis University, Aug 24
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Pat Conroy to Announce
2010 National Book Award Finalists
 In
June we announced that the 2010 National Book Award Finalists
Announcement will take place on Wednesday, October
13 at the Flannery
O’Connor Childhood Home in Savannah, Georgia. We’re
now pleased to add that acclaimed author and Georgia native
Pat Conroy will announce this year’s Finalists in Fiction,
Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature. More
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Entry deadline
for 2010 National Book Awards has passed. Thank you to all
who entered. Next deadline: Books submitted for the award
must be received by the judges on or before August 16, 2010.
Review online
guidelines
and deadlines >
2010
NBA Judges >
11/17 - NBA Dinner & Ceremony
Details
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Visit our booth at the
Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 12
to pick up a free copy of The Best of the National Book
Awards: Celebrating 60 Years of Fiction. More
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We've Moved
 The
Foundation's offices have moved from 95 Madison Avenue, Suite
709, New York, NY 10016 to 90 Broad Street, Suite 604, New
York, NY 10004. Please address all mail to our new location.
Our telephone and fax numbers will remain unchanged.
Rosanne Cash to Host 5th
5 Under 35 Celebration
 Every
year, we kick off National Book Awards Week with 5
Under 35, a celebration of five emerging fiction writers
who are selected by past Award Winners and Finalists. This
year, we’re delighted to announce that Rosanne Cash,
accomplished musician and writer and daughter of Johnny Cash,
will host our fifth annual 5 Under 35 event in New York City
on November 15, 2010. More
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Suggested Reading from
the NBA Backlist
The Foundation would
like to suggest some titles worthy of a read this summer.
We're starting small and will be adding to the list as the
season progresses.
Naturalists/Environmentalists
(Reading about the life aquatic)
 Following
the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook by David M. Carroll,
2009
NBA Nonfiction Finalist
The Sea Around
Us by Rachel Carson, 1952
NBA Nonfiction Winner
My Story as Told by Water
by David James Duncan, 2001 NBA Nonfiction Finalist
The Complete Poems by
Elizabeth Bishop, 1970 NBA Poetry Winner
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