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“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”--Martin Luther King

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Awards

I read Phil Klay's "Redeployment" a couple of weeks ago.  It is indeed a fine book.

An interview with Phil Klay, this year's National Book Award winner for fiction.

Here's an essay he published earlier this year.

Ursula K. Le Guin,  winner of the ceremony's lifetime achievement award, unloaded on Amazon, and capitalism in general. "We need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and production of art," she said.


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