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Review: Southern Reader and Awards Highlights
A critical look at Willard Thorp’s A Southern Reader notes the South’s unresolved regional conflict and emotional leadership. The piece then surveys the National Book Award ceremony plans, judges, and contenders across fiction nonfiction and poetry, plus Dostoevsky observances and book club selections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commodore
New York City
Virgilia Peterson
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Harper
Carlos Baker
John Brooks
Granville Hicks
Saunders Redding
Mark Shorer
Curtis Bok
Harrison Brown
N. R. Howard
Leon Pearson
Richard Revere
Allan Temko
Dead Sea
Edmund Wilson
Gay Wilson Allen
Clifford Dowdey
Harry S. Truman
John Ciardi
Isabella Gardner
Donald Hall
Elizabeth Bishop
Randall Jarrell
W. H. Auden
American Book Publishers Council
American Booksellers Association
Book Manufacturers’ Institute