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Colum McCann novel wins national award for fiction
- The 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate literature and to wonder about its future.
- The 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate literature and to wonder about its future.
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Novelist Colum McCann wins book award
- Colum McCann's "Let the Great World Spin," a novel about daring, luck and mortality in 1970s New York, won the fiction prize Wednesday night at the 60th annual National Book Awards.
Tales of rich and poor loom large at book awards
- Stories of rich and poor are common themes among Wednesday night's nominees for the National Book Awards.
What was old is new again
- There is no restaurant in downtown Washington with more history than the Occidental: The venerable old restaurant, within the Willard Hotel complex, celebrates its 100th birthday this year.
- There is no restaurant in downtown Washington with more history than the Occidental: The venerable old restaurant, within the Willard Hotel complex, celebrates its 100th birthday this year.
Veteran journalist recalls mother’s influence
- John Dickerson is a native Washingtonian and a graduate of the University of Virginia. He covered politics for TIME Magazine for twelve years, the last four as their White House correspondent. He is currently Slate magazine’s chief political correspondent. Dickerson has written a book about his mother, “On Her Trail: My Mother, Nancy Dickerson, TV News First Woman Star” (Simon & Schuster, 2006), who died in 1997. He lives with his family in Washington.
Yeas and Nays: Friday, Nov. 24
- Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin cover people, power and politics in the beltway each weekday. Email them at yan@dcexaminer.com .
- Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin cover people, power and politics in the beltway each weekday. Email them at yan@dcexaminer.com .
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