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Winner: The Odyssey Of Echo Company

By The Society Of Midland Authors

The Society of Midland Authors announces its choices Monday for its annual awards, honoring the best books by Midwest authors published in 2017. In each category, a panel of literary judges chose a winner, as well as one or more honorees whose work was also deemed worthy of recognition. The Society will present the awards May 8 in Chicago.
ADULT NONFICTION
WINNER: Doug Stanton, The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War. (Stanton lives in Traverse City, Michigan.)
See also: It’s An Extraordinary Time To Be Traverse City Author Doug Stanton.

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Posted on April 9, 2018

The Slits’ Viv Albertine Has A New (Her Second) Memoir Out That Brilliantly Chronicles Outsiderism, But Does She Really Have To Be Done With Men?

By Steve Rhodes

“Viv Albertine’s new memoir is a chronicle of outsiderness that goes beyond her years in the Slits to explore class and gender, her parents and sibling rivalry,” Sean O’Hagan writes for the Guardian.
Ooh, that sounds good.
“[A]nd why she’s done with men.”
Ugh. Ya know, sometimes Not All Men is the appropriate response.
Let’s take a look.

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Posted on April 3, 2018