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mobocracy,â Schumer recalled in his coauthored 2007 book
Positively American. He became a College Democrat, canvassed for Eugene McCarthy, and eschewed the radicals. Campus members of the New Leftâs Progressive Labor faction horrified him, and he felt âsickenedâ seeing protesters scream at cops. âThe police werenât pigs. They were the people Iâd grown up with. They were my neighbors. My friends. They were the Baileys [imaginary Irish-American Long Islanders with whom Schu
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NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The
Gotham Book Prize, an annual award created to encourage and honor writing about New York City in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, today announced the ten finalists for the first annual winner. A jury made up of leading New Yorkers and authors, including novelist Melissa Rivero and poet Safiya Sinclair, nominated a short list of ten eligible books, including:
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
The Index of Self-Destructive Acts by Christopher Beha
Kings County by David Goodwillie
You Again by Debra Jo Immergut
The City We Became by N.K Jemisin
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