one of these things is not like the other

Reason # 29,843 why I love YA.

I very belatedly came across this picture, from the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association 2009 Book of the Year Awards last fall. This is the shot of the winners:

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One of these people doesn't look like the rest.

Now, I have to offer this caveat, that the NAIBA award—like the recent Indie Book Awards—is a bookseller award, and these tend to be far less hoighty-toighty and penis-centric than the very male-centric literary awards because booksellers choose t...