In September it was announced that Ocean Vuong had been awarded the MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius Award”. Queer Reader has never described an author as a “genius”, but in this case the word is entirely appropriate. Ocean Vuong is a brilliant
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Last night it was announced that Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel won the Publishing Triangle’s Randy Shilts Award for Gay Non-fiction.
Imani Perry won the Judy Grahn Award for Looking for Loraine: The Radiant Radical Life of
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It’s awards season again. Soon lists will be released of the best books of last year. We will know shortly whether Stephen McCauley, the author of so many consistently superb novels, will be rewarded for his efforts. It remains a
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