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National Book Award Winner Patti Smith reveals the cover of her soon to be published new memoir (Source: Entertainment Weekly)

National Book Award Winner Patti Smith reveals the cover of her soon to be published new memoir (Source: Entertainment Weekly)

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#NBAwards Finalist in Nonfiction, #Ta-Nehisi Coates writes the following in his personal memoir, Between the World and Me, an open letter to his teenage son: ““And so I had no sense that any just God was on my side. ‘The meek shall inherit the earth’...

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“And so I had no sense that any just God was on my side. ‘The meek shall inherit the earth’ meant nothing to me. The meek were battered in West Baltimore, stomped out at Walbrook Junction, bashed up on Park Heights, and raped in the showers of the city jail.” 

Watch the #NBAwards ceremony live stream at nationalbook.org, xxpm, November 18.  For more from #BetweenTheWorldAndMe, visit: http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2015_nf_tcoates.html#.Vjos8269GSo

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While Martin Luther King Jr., says in his well-known speech, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” Ta-Nehisi Coates, #NBAwards Finalist in Nonfiction, writes in his powerful memoir #BetweenTheWorldAndMe: 

“My understanding of the universe was physical, and its moral arc bent toward chaos then concluded in a box.”

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Watch the #NBAwards ceremony  live stream at nationalbook.org, xxpm, November 18. For more on Ta-Nehisi Coates’s memoir and new framework  for understanding Anerica’s history and crisis, visit: http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2015_nf_tcoates.html#.Vjos8269GSo

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Novelist Edwidge Danticat became a National Book Award Finalist in 2007 for her moving family memoir Brother, I’m Dying. Born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti until the age of twelve, Danticat recalls the lives of her father and uncle; two men who...

Novelist Edwidge Danticat became a National Book Award Finalist in 2007 for her moving family memoir Brother, I’m Dying. Born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti until the age of twelve, Danticat recalls the lives of her father and uncle; two men who follow different paths to escape Haiti’s political turmoil. While one immigrates to the United States, the other remains until the country’s violent unrest destroys his livelihood. In sharing the lives and tragic deaths of these two men, Danticat tells a larger story of family and exile, the Haitian diaspora, and the harsh realities of US immigration policy in a post- 9/11 world.

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Our #TBT, William Carlos Williams, pictured here with Eleanor Roosevelt, Nelson Algren, and Ralph L. Rusk, at the first National Book Awards Ceremony in 1950. Williams won the Poetry Award for both his Selected Poems and part 3 of his opus Paterson....

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This week, we were thrilled to announce the Longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards. These titles in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature represent some of the best writing of the year. The Finalists will be announced October 8, all in the lead up to the 70th National Book Awards on November 20. 

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