In 1962, the academy nominated sublime wit Dorothy Parker for reading an album of "her own short stories, verse and a book review" for cult jazz label Verve.
In an interview before the show, the actor Dylan Baker, who was nominated for his reading of Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, explained that he got his start in the business when a friend of a friend needed someone to read a novel about the Civil War, which turned out to be Charles Frazier's mammoth-selling "Cold Mountain".
He had been nominated for his reading of a 6.5-hour abridged version of his autobiography, "My Life".
She flew in from Iowa City for the event, to meet Tavia Gilbert, who was nominated for her reading of "The Dirty Life," a memoir by Kristin Kimball.
And in 1974, memorably over-the-top Irish actor Richard Harris (nominated for his reading of '70s pop-spiritual staple "Jonathan Livingston Seagull") beat John Wayne, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Vincent Price and Billie Holiday (Holiday died in 1959, but a 1973 album of old recordings packaged as "Songs and Conversations" was deemed eligible, possibly on account of the "conversations" between takes).
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the GOP is going to nominate for President a guy who reads the National Enquirer and thinks it's on the level.
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When McInerney was nominated for the Baileys prize I read Glorious Heresies and I was blown away.
Husband thinks Abrams should make sticker for cover that reads: Erroneously Nominated for NBA.
