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Category: Celebrity News | Tags: National Book Awards Has Only Happy People On Wall Street [Hope]
pimg src="http://gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2008/11/SafariScreenSnapz015.jpg" alt="SafariScreenSnapz015.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" / They say human happiness depends largely on your position (social, economic) relative to those around you, an axiom that would explain why the bunch of struggling New York writers at the National Book Awards on Wall Street seemed so giddy in press reports about the "a href="http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/national-book-awards-in-tough-times-celebration/"determined... party/a." "Our dinner here is larger than it's been in five years... we have an afterparty (with) 300, 400 people coming," the foundation's executive director a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/awards/national_book_awards_on_wall_street_101234.asp?c=rss"told emGalleyCat/em/a (video after the jump). Call it the awards' year of hope, then, particularly with the hopey president-elect a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/books/20awards.html"getting a shout-out in several/a speeches and an African American author taking home the nonfiction prize for the first time since 1991. A short (fun!) video and a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE4AJ13F20081120?feedType=RSSamp;feedName=entertainmentNews"winners/a after the jump./p pNonfiction: Annette Gordon-Reed's account of three generations of a slave family owned by Thomas Jefferson, "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.”/p pFiction: Peter Matthiessen took the Fiction Award for "Shadow Country," about a sugarcane farmer and outlaw suspected serial killer./p pPoetry: Mark Doty's "Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems."/p pYoung People's Literature Award: "What I Saw and How I Lied," Judy Blundell./p p2008 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters: Maxine Hong Kingston./p p2008 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community: Barney Rosset, publisher, Grove Press and emThe Evergreen Review/em./p pAn entertaining little video a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/awards/national_book_awards_on_wall_street_101234.asp?c=rss"from emGalleyCat/em/a:/p pobject classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="437" height="333" id="viddler" param name="movie" value="http://www.viddler.com/player/6e6c6afb/" / param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" / param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" / param name="wmode" value="transparent" / embed src="http://www.viddler.com/player/6e6c6afb/" width="437" height="333" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" name="viddler" / /object/p/embed br style="clear: both;"/
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