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April 26, 2004
OH, THOSE PRIZES
Unless I'm wrong, pandas at the zoo get more press attention than the winners of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. This year's winners were named over the weekend. They included Henry Wiencek in history, for "An Imperfect God," and Ishmael Reed, who received the Robert Kirsch Award for "Blues City: A Walk in Oakland."
Did anyone besides the L.A. Times take notice? The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune and U.S.A. Today didn't. If all politics is local, book politics is localer.
Other winners were Pete Dexter for "Train" (fiction); Neil Smith for "American Empire" (biography); Mark Haddon for "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" (first fiction); Anthony Hecht for "Collected Later Poems" (poetry); Ross Terrill for "The New Chinese Empire" (current-interest nonfiction); Jennifer Donnelly for "A Northern Light" (young adult fiction), and Randy J. Hilts for "Protecting America's Health" (science and technology).
Posted by at April 26, 2004 11:05 AM