The National Book Awards: A Post Mortem
National Book Awards post-mortem
Is anyone really surprised when a committee comes up with a camel? Choosing the best book published is a difficult, maybe even a silly endeavor--best in what way? Sometimes there is an undoubted winner. But consider, even in the few books I have read this, I would be hard-pressed to choose the best. And these poor judges are faced with the task of deciding from a great many such. It's no wonder we spend so much time pillorying them.
Is anyone really surprised when a committee comes up with a camel? Choosing the best book published is a difficult, maybe even a silly endeavor--best in what way? Sometimes there is an undoubted winner. But consider, even in the few books I have read this, I would be hard-pressed to choose the best. And these poor judges are faced with the task of deciding from a great many such. It's no wonder we spend so much time pillorying them.
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