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“ FIRST HERO HE WAS GATHERING dirty laundry when the bombs started falling. It was early on the morning of December 7, 1941, at the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Mess Attendant Dorie Miller had just gone on duty aboard the battleship...

FIRST HERO

HE WAS GATHERING dirty laundry when the bombs started falling.
It was early on the morning of December 7, 1941, at the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Mess Attendant Dorie Miller had just gone on duty aboard the battleship USS West Virginia. A six-foot-three, 225-pound Texan, Miller was the ship’s heavyweight boxing champ. But his everyday duties were somewhat less challenging. As one of the ship’s African American mess attendants, he cooked and cleaned for the white sailors.

 (The story of one the first American heroes of World War Two continues here.)

Steve Sheinkin tells the history of Dorie Miller’s bravery and many other African-American servicemen in The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights, Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.

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May 16, 1979 Under a sliver of moon, on an island off the coast of China, a twenty-six-year-old army captain slipped away from his post and headed for the water’s edge. He moved as calmly as possible, over the pine scrub to a ledge overlooking the...

May 16, 1979

Under a sliver of moon, on an island off the coast of China, a twenty-six-year-old army captain slipped away from his post and headed for the water’s edge. He moved as calmly as possible, over the pine scrub to a ledge overlooking the shore. If his plan were discovered, he would be disgraced and executed. (via Age of Ambition | Discourse in Progress)

Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

Source: discourseinprogress.com
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John Lahr, author of Tennesse Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, Longlisted for a 2014 National Book Award

  • "Of the books you’ve written, which is your favorite, and why?"
  • An unfair question, since each book inevitably engineers some emotional transition in a writer’s life. But given one, I’d say my first book, “Notes on a Cowardly Lion,” which I finished the week my father died when I was 26. In it, I mourned him and preserved him.
Source: The New York Times
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MOLLY ANTOPOL — ON TOUR FOR THE UNAMERICANS, OUT IN PAPERBACK 10/6

Longlisted for the National Book Award • “5 Under 35” Honoree 
"A writer of seismic talent."—Adam Johnson

9/25-9/28 — Carmel, CA — Pebble Beach Authors & Ideas Festival

10/7 — Boston, MA — Newtonville Books, with Katherine Hill

10/8 — Brooklyn, NY — Community Bookstore

10/9 — New York, NY — KGB Bar, Behind the Book Reading Series

10/11 — San Francisco, CA — The Make Out Room, Writers With Drinks In San Francisco

10/16 — San Francisco, CA — LitQuake at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, with Boris Fishman

10/18 — San Francisco, CA — LitQuake, The Art of the Short Story (Z Space) & An Evening with The Rumpus (The Make Out Room)

10/21 — Palo Alto, CA — Books Inc., Peninsula Parlour Event

10/22 — Albuquerque, NM — Jewish Book Festival

10/24 — Austin, TX — Texas Book Festival

11/3 — San Francisco, CA — Bookshop Santa Cruz

11/12 — Sausalito, CA — Studio 333, Why There Are Words Reading Series

11/21 — Miami, FL — Miami Book Fair International

12/2 — Rochester, NY — Jewish Community Center

12/9-12/10 — Waltham, MA — Hadassah Brandeis Institute

For more, visit www.mollyantopol.com.

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Hashtag: Awesome Things Happening to Awesome Books

It’s been an amazing week for some Joyland contributors. We’d like to congratulate Molly Antopol, author of The UnAmericans, and Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven, on being longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction. We’d also like to congratulate Arjun Basu, author of Waiting for the Man, for his inclusion on the longlist for the $100,000 Giller Prize for Fiction. 

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