{"id":1032918,"date":"2021-11-19T16:14:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T21:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1032918"},"modified":"2021-11-19T16:14:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T21:14:15","slug":"national-book-award-touts-author-who-queers-romance-for-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/national-book-award-touts-author-who-queers-romance-for-teens\/","title":{"rendered":"National Book Award Touts Author Who Queers Romance for Teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnational-book-award-touts-author-who-queers-romance-for-teens%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1032918&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Teen-640x335-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The left-wing National Book Awards selected as its young people\u2019s literature winner a novel aimed at queering teens.<\/p>\n<p>The book, entitled <em>Last Night at the Telegraph Club<\/em>, \u201cfollows a queer 17-year-old in San Francisco\u2019s Chinatown during the Red Scare who is falling in love for the first time,\u201d the <em>New York Times <\/em>reported.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Although published books about the LGBT lifestyle have grown in recent years, this book about lesbian lovers is designed for teens and even younger readers.<\/p>\n<p>Author Malinda Lo made it clear in her remarks and in many online postings that she is also an activist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn her speech, she urged viewers to pay attention to their school boards and vote in local elections,\u201d the <em>Times<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe need your support to keep our stories on the shelves,\u201d Lo said. \u201cDon\u2019t let them erase us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times <\/em>also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/17\/books\/national-book-awards-winners.html\">reported<\/a> on Jason Mott who won the top prize for fiction:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"30.507377979569\">\n<p>Jason Mott won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday for his novel \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/12\/books\/review\/new-books.html\">Hell of a Book<\/a>,\u201d an account of a Black author\u2019s book tour intertwined with one focused on a Black boy in the rural South and a third character, The Kid, who may be imaginary.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mott, who said that his agent had picked his work out of the unsolicited \u201cslush\u201d pile 10 years ago, is a poet and the author of three novels in addition to \u201cHell of a Book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to dedicate this award to all the other mad kids, to all the outsiders, the weirdos, the bullied,\u201d Mott said. \u201cThe ones so strange they had no choice but to be misunderstood by the world and by those around them. The ones who, in spite of this, refuse to outgrow their imagination, refuse to abandon their dreams and refuse to deny, diminish their identity, or their truth, or their loves, unlike so many others.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For the second year, the award ceremony was virtual unlike past black-tie events held at the Cipriani Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>Phoebe Robinson, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theodysseyonline.com\/14-queer-female-comedians-need-follow\">is listed<\/a> as one of \u201c14 Queer Female Comedians You Need To Follow\u201d on the Odyssey website, hosted this year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe National Book Award is one of the most closely watched literary prizes in the world, previously awarded to luminaries such as William Faulkner, W.H. Auden and Ralph Ellison. It can boost book sales and transform an author\u2019s profile,\u201d the <em>Times<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Penny Starr on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennyStarrDC\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i> or send news tips to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"ea9a999e8b9898aa88988f839e888b989ec4898587c4\">[email&nbsp;protected]<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The left-wing National Book Awards selected as its young people\u2019s literature winner a novel aimed at queering teens. 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