Unless I’m wrong, pandas at the zoo get more press attention than the winners of the Did anyone besides the L.A. Times take notice? The New York Times, The Washington Post, Other winners were Pete Dexter for 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-av","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPrizes<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>.<\/FONT><\/EM> This
\nyear’s winners were named over the weekend. They included Henry Wiencek in history, for
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\nGod,”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> and Ishmael Reed, who received the Robert Kirsch Award for
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\nin Oakland.”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> <\/P>
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\nThe Chicago Tribune and U.S.A. Today didn’t. If all politics is local, book politics is localer.<\/P>
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\nDog in the Night-Time”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> (first fiction); Anthony Hecht for
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\nNew Chinese Empire”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> (current-interest nonfiction); Jennifer Donnelly
\nfor
\nLight”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> (young adult fiction), and Randy J. Hilts for
\n“Protecting America’s
\nHealth”<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/EM> (science and technology).<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"