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All Sides Weekend: Books

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The novel “Hell of a Book” went from a publisher’s discard pile a decade ago to National Book Award winner this week.

Author Jason Mott won the fiction prize for his account of a Black author on a book tour whose life intersects with a Black boy in the rural South.

Today on All Sides Weekend: Books, host Christopher Purdy and guests discuss the National Book Award winners and offer other reading recommendations.

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