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Not The Booker Prize Is Back
Eleven years in and Not The Booker Prize is still going strong and asking for your nominations of this year’s best fiction. You can leave your nomination in the comments section here, and also learn more about the award, including this year’s added change of having a 2018 judging panel selected book.
We All Need Mister Rogers Now
Even if it’s Tom Hanks playing Mister Rogers in the upcoming film based on the real-life friendship of Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod. You can check out the just dropped trailer for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood here. The film will hit theaters November 22nd and we’re gonna need to stock up on tissues.
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Officials
Awarded the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, which celebrates “literature’s power to foster peace, social justice and global understanding” to essayist and poet N. Scott Momaday. Learn more about Momaday, whose House Made of Dawn won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and who is credited with “leading a renaissance in Native American literature,” here.