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...author of imaginist fiction, from J.R.R. Tolkien to George Lucas, from Rowling to Meyer, the fun is in creating the laws, folkways and architecture of the alternative universe that its more fanciful characters inhabit. The Cullens are a fastidious family of vampires; in their tennis whites, with their regal airs, they resemble the aristocratic Flyte brood in Brideshead Revisited. They call themselves vegetarians because they drink the blood of animals, not people. They can fly, move with lightning speed, scale trees in a trice. They also play baseball, which in the Cullen clan is a lot like Rowling's Quidditch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twilight Review: Swooningly True to the Book | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

University President Drew G. Faust’s book on the Civil War—one of the five finalists in the non-fiction section of the National Book Awards—was bested for the prize by a book about the family of Thomas Jefferson’s housekeeper Sally Hemings at the award ceremony in New York last night...

Author: By Betsy L. Mead, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faust’s Civil War Book Falters in Quest for Non-Fiction National Book Award | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...professor at Rutgers and New York Law School, Gordon-Reid is the first black woman to win the award for non-fiction...

Author: By Betsy L. Mead, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faust’s Civil War Book Falters in Quest for Non-Fiction National Book Award | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

Last year's fiction winner, Denis Johnson's 624-page Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), for example, was a critical darling and Pulitzer finalist, that, like those first NBA winners, failed to top bestseller lists. And in 2001, Jonathan Franzen, winner of the fiction award for his 500-page work The Corrections, bristled at being chosen for Oprah's Book Club a month prior, inciting calls of elitism from other writers. But the foundation has recognized some household names in its past: Oprah Winfrey herself received a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1999, as did horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The National Book Awards | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...despite the turnout, one notable voice was missing from the proceedings. University President Drew G. Faust was in New York City as a finalist for the National Book Award in non-fiction, Smith said...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child and Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Faculty Discusses Financial Future | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

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