NEWS LITE : TALE OF IRISH IN NEW YORK BEATS OUT WOLFE'S ATLANTA.Unmoved by best-seller lists and magazine covers, National Book Award voters bypassed Tom Wolfe and gave the fiction prize Wednesday night to the relatively unknown Alice McDermott. She was cited for ``Charming Billy,'' the story of an Irish family and community in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Although long well-regarded within the literary world, McDermott has never had anything like the broad following of Wolfe, whose novel ``A Man in Full'' was the year's biggest publishing event. ``I wouldn't be true to my Irish heritage if I thought this was an entirely good thing,'' said the soft-spoken McDermott in New York. McDermott was a finalist in 1987 for the novel ``That Night.'' ``I could hear my grandmother saying don't get a swelled head swelled head a disease of rams, a form of malignant edema caused by Clostridium septicum or other Clostridia spp. The swelling and emphysema are present only on the head and neck. The disease is thought to occur as a result of fighting. Called also ovine bighead. about this. I will clutch on to my Irish humility with great vigor.'' The big winner Wednesday night was the publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Farrar, Straus & Giroux Publishing company in New York City noted for its literary excellence. It was founded in 1945 by John Farrar and Roger Straus as Farrar, Straus & Co. , which received prizes in three of the four competitive categories. Besides McDermott, the publisher's writers getting awards were Edward Ball for nonfiction and Louis Sachar for young people's literature. Ball investigated his own family's slave-owning heritage in ``Slaves in the Family,'' his first book. In his acceptance speech, Ball said he would set aside one-quarter of his income from the book to help set up restitution programs for relatives of former slaves. Sachar was cited for ``Holes,'' a crime and coming-of-age story set in a juvenile detention center. Wolfe, nominated for the epic-length ``A Man in Full'' set in Atlanta, could have become the first person to win the prestigious award for both fiction and nonfiction. Also competing for the fiction prize were Robert Stone, nominated for ``Damascus Gate''; Allegra Goodman, ``Kaaterskill Falls''; and Gayl Jones, ``The Healing.'' In February, soon after her novel was published, Jones and her husband, Bob Higgins, barricaded themselves in their Lexington, Ky., home as police tried to serve Higgins with a 15-year-old warrant from Michigan. Higgins killed himself when police stormed the house. She was taken to a mental hospital and has been in seclusion seclusion Forensic psychiatry A strategy for managing disturbed and violent Pts in psychiatric units, which consists of supervised confinement of a Pt to a room–ie, involuntary isolation, to protect others from harm since. Unearthed Unearthed is the name of a Triple J project to find and "dig up" (hence the name) hidden talent in regional Australia. Unearthed has had three incarnations - they first visited each region of Australia where Triple J had a transmitter - 41 regions in all. live Beatles tape for sale at auction The recording was nothing more than a sound check, and not even that pleasing to the technician in charge. But 25 years later, the tape - thought to be the first known concert recording of the Beatles - is expected to fetch up To overtake. - Addison. To stop suddenly. - L'Estrange. See also: Fetch Fetch to $58,000 when it goes under the hammer at Christie's in London next month. Irene Draper, 52, said her father, the chief technician at the Bournemouth Gaumont in southern England, made the reel-to-reel recording in August 1963 to check sound quality. But he was not overly impressed with the recording band, so he left the tape in a workroom work·room n. A room where work is done. Noun 1. workroom - room where work is done room - an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view" and forgot about it. He only looked for it at his daughter's urging. ``I nearly went through the roof when I heard it again after all these years,'' Irene Draper told the Daily Telegraph. ``It brought memories of those wonderful, exciting days flooding back. I knew it was really hot stuff.'' The 25-minute, 10-song tape picks up the female fans' screams - still muted at this stage in the Beatles' career - as well as humorous remarks by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, the auction house said. The auction is scheduled for Dec. 10. Family home gets price Jacked up Jack Nicholson has sold for about $2.5 million the five-bedroom Beverly Hills house he bought in 1991 to keep Rebecca Broussard, now 35, and their kids, now 9 and 6. He paid $2 million for it. Broussard and the kids have relocated, but the actor still lives nearby in a house he has owned since the 1960s. In June, Nicholson helped daughter Jennifer, 34, buy a Brentwood home for $2.75 million. Kennedy Library to honor Irish pact Eight Northern Ireland negotiators will receive a special Profile in Courage Award from the John F. Kennedy Library The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library and museum of the 35th President of the United States John F. Kennedy. It is located on Dorchester's Columbia Point in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and was designed by the architect I.M. Pei. for brokering the peace agreement. The Boston library said Wednesday it chose non-Americans for the first time to recognize ``the extraordinary political courage demonstrated by the eight political leaders to bring about peace in Northern Ireland.'' The eight are: Nobel Peace prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. winners David Trimble of the Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party) is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland[1]. and John Hume of the Social Democratic and Labor Party; Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein; John Alderdice of the Alliance Party; David Ervine of the Progressive Unionist Party
The awards, named after President Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, will be presented Dec. 7. Allen speaking from experience ``If I were Clinton,'' Woody Allen, another guy who wooed and won a woman less than half his age, told the New York Daily News New York Daily News Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S. , ``I would have gone in front of the American people and said, Yes, I'm having an affair with this woman. My wife is still behind me, so it's really none of your business, and if this is not OK with you, fine, get yourself a new president.'' News Lite is compiled by Karen Duffy from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 3 photos PHOTO (1) Supermodel Christopher Reeve models a new tie from his line in New York. Associated Press (2) Alice McDermott is a National Book Award winner. (3) Woody Allen |
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