{"id":325,"date":"2009-07-20T14:19:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T18:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2009-08-14T16:40:57","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T20:40:57","slug":"new-blog-natl-book-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2009\/07\/new-blog-natl-book-award\/","title":{"rendered":"New Blog for the Nat&#8217;l Book Award:60 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/nba.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-327 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"nba\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/nba.jpg\" alt=\"nba\" width=\"133\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a>The National Book Foundation has a new blog up to celebrate it&#8217;s 60th anniversary. The Blog features 77\u00a0fiction novels that have won their National Book Award. Notice something strange?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/jacketcopy\/2009\/07\/77-novels-for-60-years-.html\" target=\"_blank\">As the LA Times says:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The National Book Foundation, celebrating its 60th anniversary, is running a series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalbook.org\/nba77fictionwinners.html\">celebrating the 77 novels<\/a> that have won its fiction award &#8212; or rather, awards. Because obviously somebody got fancy in there if they ended up with 17 more winning books than there have been years.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe blog features the book jacket covers, which is interesting in itself. But click on one of the covers to read more about that book. Very interesting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbafictionblog.org\/nba-winning-books-blog\/2009\/7\/9\/1956.html\" target=\"_blank\">In discussing <em>Ten North Fredrick<\/em>, Harold\u00a0 Augenbraum, an editor at the National Book Foundation writes:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As I write this, I have just finished reading all 77 of the National Book Award Fiction Winners.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty cool, I wonder if I could do it?\u00a0 In looking at the covers, I have read(reading) three of the books. I loved Spartina, The World According to Garp, and I am reading Peter Matthiessen on my Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>How about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Book Foundation has a new blog up to celebrate it&#8217;s 60th anniversary. The Blog features 77\u00a0fiction novels that have won their National Book Award. Notice something strange? As the LA Times says: &#8220;The National Book Foundation, celebrating its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2009\/07\/new-blog-natl-book-award\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[22,35,49],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uclibraries","tag-didyaknow","tag-just-interesting","tag-new-and-notable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}