Great new essay from Viet Thanh Nguyen: How the first National Book Awards reflected 1950s America by mcthrowawayman1 Related: about terry pratchett and neil gaiman’s writing style (good omens) So in Ship of Theseus by Abrams and Dorst, who is Straka? A secret shelf of banned books thrives in a Texas school, under the nose of censors ‘I’d love a scathing review’: novelist Percival Everett on American Fiction and rewriting Huckleberry Finn Should you return a *slightly* damaged book?