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Here are the 2025 National Book Awards finalists : NPR

Here are the 2025 National Book Awards finalists : NPR

The finalists for this year’s National Book Awards have been announced. Among the 25 nominees are novelists Rabih Alameddine and Megha Majumdar as well as journalists Julia Ioffe and Omar El Akkad, who also writes fiction. The winners of each category will be announced on Nov. 19 at an event in New York City. Also being honored are two lifetime …

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2025 National Book Awards Finalists Announced – nationalbook.org

2025 National Book Awards Finalists Announced  nationalbook.org 2025 National Book Award Finalists Are Announced  The New York Times National Book Award finalists announced: Alameddine, Majumdar, Li and Russell are among the nominees  Newsday National Book Award finalists announced for 2025  The Washington Post National Book Awards finalists announced – See which authors made the list  USA Today Source link

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2025 National Book Award Finalists Are Announced – The New York Times

2025 National Book Award Finalists Are Announced  The New York Times 2025 National Book Awards Finalists Announced  nationalbook.org National Book Award finalists announced: Alameddine, Majumdar, Li and Russell are among the nominees  Newsday National Book Award finalists announced for 2025  The Washington Post National Book Awards finalists announced – See which authors made the list  USA Today Source link

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Can Cory Doctorow’s Book ‘Enshittification’ Change the Tech Debate? – The New York Times

Can Cory Doctorow’s Book ‘Enshittification’ Change the Tech Debate?  The New York Times Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?  The Guardian The Age of Enshittification  The New Yorker Enshittification by Cory Doctorow — a manifesto for fixing the internet  Financial Times Cory Doctorow Exposes Amazon’s Enshittification and Antitrust Failures  WebProNews Source link

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Ozzy Osbourne’s New Book Reveals the Best Drug He Ever Took

Ozzy Osbourne’s New Book Reveals the Best Drug He Ever Took

In a book he completed just before his death, Ozzy Osbourne looked back on his struggle to sing the most emotional song at his farewell show. In an excerpt from the upcoming Last Rites, via The Times, the late Black Sabbath icon said he became overwhelmed as he delivered “Mama, I’m Coming Home” in Birmingham, England, three weeks before his death. And he reflected …

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Book bans, challenges rose over two-year period : NPR

Book bans, challenges rose over two-year period : NPR

These books top PEN America’s list of the books most often challenged and banned from school classrooms in the U.S. during the 2024-2025 school year. PEN America hide caption toggle caption PEN America PEN America released its list of the most-banned books of the 2024-2025 school year on Wednesday – and warned that the number of books challenged or banned …

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Kamala Harris’ book tour fuels the critiques that dogged her candidacy – Politico

Kamala Harris’ book tour fuels the critiques that dogged her candidacy  Politico What Does Kamala Harris’ Memoir Have to Teach Us About Trump? Funny You Ask.  Slate Opinion | Kamala Harris’s one good deed  The Washington Post Opinion | Harris’s Memoir Is Another Example of the Democrats’ Problem  The New York Times Kamala Harris is trying to figure out what’s next  CNN Source link

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PlayStation is getting a big, fancy art book full of unused designs

PlayStation is getting a big, fancy art book full of unused designs

It’s been 30 years since the original PlayStation was released in North America and Europe after first debuting in Japan nine months earlier. To mark the occasion, Sony has announced a “large-format photography book” featuring 400 pages filled with photos of prototypes of controllers and consoles the public hasn’t seen before, as well as concept sketches and design models that …

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Sony celebrates PlayStation anniversary with a new photography book that costs £95 (or £245 if you’re fancy)

Sony celebrates PlayStation anniversary with a new photography book that costs £95 (or £245 if you’re fancy)

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Sony PlayStation’s release in the UK, and to celebrate Sony is releasing a fancy photography book of never before seen prototypes and concepts. The catch? It’ll cost you £95. PlayStation: The First 30 Years is a “400 page visual journey through PlayStation history”, reads the PlayStation Blog, which will provide a glimpse into …

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