2008 NBCC Awards Ceremony: Dexter Filkins, The Forever War
by Eric Banks | Mar-15-2009
Dexter Filkins accepts the 2008 NBCC award in nonfiction. (Photo Miriam Berkley.)New York Times correspondent Dexter Filkins’s The Forever War won the 2008 award in nonfiction on Thursday. Here, nonfiction committee chair Art Winslow announces the award, followed by Filkins’s comments.
NBCC board member Oscar Villalon discussed The Forever War at Critical Mass earlier in the 30 Books/30 Days series.
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