
Novelist Annie Proulx won the lifetime-achievement prize at this year’s National Book Award ceremony. During her speech, the 82-year-old listed the many reasons why we live in a Kafkaesque time, one being how television “sparkles with images of despicable political louts and sexual harassment reports.”







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