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Please plan to join us at UCLA in April 2008 for the 28th annual presentation of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. We'll carry forward a proud tradition that has honored A. Scott Berg, Ray Bradbury, Robert Caro, Joan Didion, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gabriel García Márquez, Allen Ginsberg, Mark Haddon, ... (more)Anthony Hecht, Seymour Hersh, Tony Hillerman, Christopher Isherwood, Ken Kesey, Milan Kundera, Ursula Le Guin, Doris Lessing, Robert Littell, Frank McCourt, David McCullough, Ian McEwan, Larry McMurtry, Tillie Olsen, Walker Percy, Ishmael Reed, Carl Sagan and W.G. Sebald, among many other authors.

The host of National Public Radio's Weekend Edition reads from and signs his new political novel. (Book World, The Washington Post) Reservations - 202.338.2000

"SCOTT SIMON, Chicago native and host of NPR’s “Weekend Edition,” signs his second novel, Windy City, a detailed and fascinating portrait of Chicago politics that begins with the sudden death of the mayor and quickly shifts focus to the Indian vice-mayor."

---from bookstall.booksense.com

"Scott Simon, the host of NPR’s Weekend Edition, returns to read from and talk about his new novel. Set in Chicago, “the best place to set a political novel,” according to Simon, who began his journalism career there in
1977, this narrative dramatizes the high-stakes circus that follows the ... (more)death of the mayor." (Politics and Prose website)