Percival Everett's 'James' awarded Carnegie Medal for fiction NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett's latest honor comes from the country’s public libraries. On Sunday, the American Library Association announced that Everett’s “James” was this year’s winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, which includes a $5,000 cash award. Kevin Fedarko’s “A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon” was chosen for nonfiction.
Everett’s acclaimed reworking of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of Jim, Huck Finn’s enslaved companion, has already received the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize and is a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award. A Sundance documentary called ‘The Stringer’ disputes who took AP’s 'napalm girl' photo in Vietnam PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The authorship of The Associated Press’s renowned “napalm girl” photograph is being called into question in the new documentary “The Stringer,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. A freelance Vietnamese photographer named Nguyen Thanh Nghe claims that he took the iconic photo of Kim Phuc on June 8, 1972, not retired AP photographer Nick Ut.
Ut has long been credited for the image. Representatives for the AP, who saw the film for the first time at the premiere, are contesting the implication that the company reviewed their findings and dismissed them. Mel Gibson’s ‘Flight Risk’ .
