The National Book Awards were presented Wednesday evening at Cipriani Wall Street. In keeping with the awards’ recognition of writers with a broad audience and larger reach, favorites Louise Erdrich and Katherine Boo won in the fiction and nonfiction categories. Accepting the nonfiction award for Behind The Beautiful Forevers, Boo said that if the prize were to mean anything, “it is that small stories in so-called hidden places matter because they implicate and complicate what we consider to be the larger story, which is the story of people who do […]
