Thursday, November 18, 2010

Patti Smith Wins National Book Award for Memoir - NYTimes.com

Patti Smith Wins National Book Award for Memoir - NYTimes.com:

"In the fiction category, Jaimy Gordon won for “Lord of Misrule,” a surprise pick for a book published by McPherson & Company, a small literary publisher in Kingston, N.Y. The novel, about the ruthless world of horse racing in West Virginia, was praised by the judges as a “vivid, memorable and linguistically rich novel.”

“I’m totally unprepared, and I’m totally surprised,” a stunned-looking Ms. Gordon said in a brief speech."

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