Word: bookers
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...Byatt's 1990 novel Possession was a hot, epistolary Victorian romance framed as a literary mystery, complete with epic poems, lost letters, adultery, suicide, lesbians, a bastard child, a grave robbery and hilarious send-ups of contemporary academics. No wonder it won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize and has sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide: it satisfies every possible literary constituency...
Byatt's latest novel, The Children's Book (Knopf; 675 pages), her ninth work of fiction since Possession, earned a spot on the Man Booker short list and has been hailed as a return to peak form. It's not quite that good - it has Possession's omnivorous range but not its propulsive discipline. Still, The Children's Book is a rich and ambitious work, steeped in ideas and capped with a lacerating final...
Then, as Winters began his first season at Booker T. Washington High School, his combination junior-high-and-high-school coach stepped in, and encouraged the athlete to change positions. Luckily for the Crimson—whom Winters has led to victories over Brown, Lehigh and Cornell, being named Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week along the way—Winters’ coach knew him well enough to foresee his success at quarterback. That coach was former Kansas State linebacker and the Oklahoman’s father, Kevin Winters...
...CORY BOOKER, Newark's mayor, joking in a YouTube video that he would put the comedian on the no-fly list at Newark's international airport in retaliation for the remark...
...Hilary Mantel's win comes with just the faintest twinge of regret from those of us who have always regarded her as our secret." - Claire Armitstead, critic, writing about Mantel's Booker win in the Guardian...