Did The Beverly Lynne - Bikini Royale 2 (2010)MoviegoerFix the NBAs? And Other News
By Sadie Stein
On the Shelf
It was considered a huge upset when The Moviegoerbeat out Catch-22, Revolutionary Road, and Franny and Zooeyfor the 1962 National Book Award. Slate asks: Was the fix in? And why?
Speaking of snubbing Richard Yates: “Each time Yates shuffled into Roads that summer, I avoided making eye contact. Why didn’t he get help, join AA?” Leslie Absher recounts her interactions with the author.
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You may be dead before you finish these: a slideshow of those books most difficult to finish.
He apparently hated beards, and other trivia about Roald Dahl.