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November 19
National Book Awards Ceremony
Cipriani Wall Street
New York City.
In honor of John Cheever,
we are highlighting his 1958 National Book Award Fiction
Winning book, The
Wapshot Chronicle,
by revisiting an essay from the National Book Awards
archive. Written by then NBF executive director Neil
Baldwin, the feature looks closely at the personality
behind the masterpiece. More
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Moderated by Bradford Morrow
May 15 at 6:30pm
A unique series for sophisticated writers, readers,
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Illuminating
the ways the experience of reading can inform -- and
even transform -- the act of writing is one of the
primary goals of every outreach program sponsored
by the National Book Foundation. In this updated feature,
some of our nation's most distinguished writers explain
the book that changed their lives and why. More
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