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Posted Friday, Oct. 3, 2008, at 12:10 PM ETBrendan I. Koerner explained how Nobel Prizes are awarded. Chris Suellentrop asked whether Oprah's choice of East of Eden for her book club was good for John Steinbeck, while Elisabeth Sifton looked back on her experience editing Saul Bellow. Katie Roiphe examined the mild anti-Americanism of Graham Greene's The Quiet American.
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