By Douglas Holtz-Eakin
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Independent voices from the TWT Communities
The National Book Awards ceremony, held just blocks from the Occupy Wall Street protests, was a gilded tribute to the 99 percent.
"I thought I should point out, since nobody else has," said poet Ann Lauterbach, who introduced Ashbery, "that we are occupying Wall Street."
Earlier in the week, she told The Associated Press that writing was a way to "ease the looming fact of death."