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Coetzee is the first person who has been awarded the distinguished Booker prize twice, but did not publicly receive the award either time. He also did not grant reporters a customary news conference following the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm...
...completely different dystopia —the sexual nightmare that was reading-list favorite, the 1985 The Handmaid’s Tale. Oryx and Crake is somewhat of a return to her roots after a series of well-received realist novels, including Cat’s Eye and the Booker Prize-winning The Blind Assassin...
...DIED. F. BOOKER NOE II, 74, former master distiller of Jim Beam bourbon; after a long illness; in Bardstown, Ky. A grandson of Jim Beam, who ran the family company from 1892 until 1944, Noe worked for almost 50 years at the distillery and in 1988 created Booker's Bourbon, an undiluted, unfiltered small-batch whiskey that helped establish a new market for bourbon, which had been left behind by the growing popularity of vodka...
...bank teller who mortgaged her home to fund, with her brother, the 1961 creation of the classic soul label Stax Records; in Memphis. Stax, which took its name from the first letters of Axton's and her brother Jim Stewart's last names, had hits with songs like Booker T. and the MGs' Green Onions, Otis Redding's (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay, and Sam and Dave's Soul...
Truth is a slippery thing. Just ask Peter Carey. In True History of the Kelly Gang, which won the Booker Prize three years ago, the cunning Australian built a palace of fiction from the "true story" of a legend, the Aussie outlaw Ned Kelly. For My Life as a Fake (Knopf; 266 pages), his point of departure is an even more intricate falsehood, the Ern Malley affair...