Thre is only world prize for the art of reportage -- the Lettre Ulysses Award. This year Riverbend's "Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq... let's talk war, politics and occupation", took third prize. Her Just Go came within a few votes of winning the Koufax for Best Post in 2004. The award went to Juan Cole for If American Were Iraq, What Would it be Like, which valued projection over perception.
As the season of inditements, perp walks, mug shots, Zogby and Gallup (real and kept, resp.) polls, insider kiss-n-tell pieces, and of course, pleas and pardons, comes to us -- "Fitzmass", as well as the $3/gal heating oil season and its cognates in the natural gas and electric heating markets, this is a book worth giving.
Not just as a blogger's gift to a semi- or non-neterite relative or lover, but to the boards of school districts, because this is the real deal, the real banned in the land of the free literature that every high school English Lit teacher could be putting in the hands of her (and his) students. If only to teach English.
Posted by EBW at October 26, 2005 09:09 AM