Comments on: A Conflict of Interest Among Judges of the 2009 National Book Awards in the Young People’s Literature Category?

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Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:12:18 +0000

[...] emerged just a day before the National Book Awards ceremony as author/blogger Janice Harayda suggested that Kathi Appelt, a judge in the Young People''s category, should recuse herself because finalist [...]

By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom

1minutebookreviewswordpresscom — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:07:52 +0000

Exactly. Thank you so much for getting the point of the post. This situation just seems unfair to everybody involved.

You don’t want to have an award with a real or imaginary asterisk after it. We have enough of those in baseball.

By: knightofswords

knightofswords — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:00:55 +0000

No matter how the voting comes out, there will always be a lingering question. If the book loses, it may even lose unfairly because (perhaps) Appelt felt compelled to vote against it when normally she wouldn’t have.

Too bad.

Malcolm