LA Times Book Prize Winners

Current Interest:Elizabeth D. Samet, Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point
We didn’t get all of our picks and predictions right - but we correctly picked Dinaw Mengestu, Karin Fossum and Tim Weiner. We were woefully off the mark in other categories, but that’s what makes the LA Times Book Prizes so interesting…you never know who’ll walk away with the honors.
The Festival of Books is at UCLA today from 10am - 6pm and tomorrow from 10am - 5pm. With hundreds of authors and bookish booths from publishers and booklovers all over the world, there will be something for everyone. And as the emcee of last night’s awards pointed out, it’s the largest annual book event in the world. How can you pass that up?

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16 Responses to “LA Times Book Prize Winners”

on 26 Apr 2008 at 8:58 pm Latisha

THOSE ARE GOOD POINTS AND ALL, BUT AS A MAN I HAVE NO REASON TO WANT TO WEAR DRESSES OR BABYSIT. I DON’T CARE IF THERE ISN’T A MEN’S STUDIES MAJOR (ALTHOUGH I COULD SEE SOMEONE WANTING TO DO IT, SO MORE POWER TO THEM). HONESTLY (AND I’M NOT TRYING TO INSULT WOMEN HERE, I LOVE THEM TO DEATH) IT SEEMS LIKE A LOT OF WOMEN WANT TO BE A BIT MORE LIKE MEN THAN MEN WANT TO BE LIKE WOMEN. GENERALLY, THAT IS
on 26 Apr 2008 at 9:49 pm Coral

HRES 590 and VAWA are two good examples of legal misandry in action.For more information about other initiatives, read Legalizing Misandry.
on 26 Apr 2008 at 10:39 pm Flannery

Sorry, but a number of feminists are constantly insulting men, therefore insulting men is a form of feminism. Some feminists are misandric extremists.
on 26 Apr 2008 at 11:30 pm Matilda

Agreed, but kowtow to the dictionary.
on 27 Apr 2008 at 12:20 am Kimberleigh

Indeed :-} I looked it up once when I realised that the word wasn’t “misanthropy”, and wondered what it might be instead.
on 27 Apr 2008 at 1:11 am Ruth

DAD?!?!?!!!
on 27 Apr 2008 at 2:01 am Marissa

Women do volunteer for the armed forces today. Not many people (of either gender) get drafted.
on 27 Apr 2008 at 2:52 am Chas

August 14, 2001
on 27 Apr 2008 at 3:43 am Hardy

The comments on the page (WaPo) blast this piece of horeshit journalism!!! Hilarious.
on 27 Apr 2008 at 4:33 am Lesleigh

LEAVE MEN ALONE SOBS
on 27 Apr 2008 at 5:24 am Radcliff

Hell hath no fury like a dick scorned?
on 27 Apr 2008 at 6:14 am Robbie

Well, your initial reaction will be “WTF?”… maybe?
on 27 Apr 2008 at 7:05 am Lester

Nice try, but you’re the wild exception and even you don’t fool me and I hope you don’t fool yourself. You’re not actively working to improve the treatment of men but you’re continuing to harp about the unfair treatment of women with claims like “Women have not won the equality battle yet.” Explain what you mean by this claim, otherwise it’s just empty rhetoric and militant propaganda–battle? Really? You’re fighting the oppressive men?
on 27 Apr 2008 at 7:55 am Rhonda

"No true Scotsman"
on 27 Apr 2008 at 8:46 am Prudence

Yes:Rubbish verb 1. attack strongly

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