Surprised by joy

Congrats to winners of the Nat'l Book Awards, including William T. Vollman, who said he didn't prepare a speech because he thought he'd never win.

I'm searching for a transcript of the proceedings (here are acceptance speeches from past years), which included a speech by Norman Mailer, winner of a lifetime achievement award. Mailer has twice won the Pulitzer Prize and won a Nat'l Book Award in 1969 for "The Armies of the Night," an autobigraphical essay on the antiwar movement and his ambivalent part in it. I reread the book a couple years ago and it really stands up. It's especially interesting in light of today's war.