Novelist Rabih Alameddine and poet Patricia Smith win National Book Awards
Read full article: Novelist Rabih Alameddine and poet Patricia Smith win National Book AwardsThe 76th annual National Book Awards have been presented by the nonprofit National Book Foundation, with winners including Rabih Alameddine for fiction, Patricia Smith for poetry, and Omar El Akkad for nonfiction.
National Book Award finalists announced: Alameddine, Majumdar, Li and Russell are among the nominees
Read full article: National Book Award finalists announced: Alameddine, Majumdar, Li and Russell are among the nomineesFiction by Rabih Alameddine, Megha Majumdar, and Karen Russell, along with a memoir by Yiyun Li, are among this year's National Book Award finalists.

Trump treats Fox News like state-run television, journalists say
Read full article: Trump treats Fox News like state-run television, journalists sayCNNWASHINGTON (CNN) - President Donald Trump speaks about Fox News as though the network is his own state-run TV channel, journalists told CNN's Brian Stelter on "Reliable Sources" Sunday. The next day, Trump called in to Fox radio host Brian Kilmeade's show and rated various Fox reporters' coverage of him. "It's Dear Leader state-run TV," Ioffe said. David Zurawik, the Baltimore Sun media critic, said Varney's comments recalled "state-run TV behind the iron curtain 1991 Czechoslovakia." While the network declined to comment on Trump's remarks, Fox senior political analyst Brit Hume replied to Trump on Wednesday, saying: "Fox News isn't supposed to work for you."
