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Newscolum mccann Cultural Headlines Roundup Shaquille O'Neal
The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
9:31 am Thursday Nov 19, 2009 by Caroline Stanley

1. Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin won the fiction prize last night at the 60th annual National Book Awards; T.J. Stiles’ biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, The First Tycoon, was the nonfiction winner. [via AP]
2. Shaquille O’Neal will curate an art show about scale called Size DOES Matter for New York’s nonprofit Flag Art Foundation come February. [via Bloomberg]
3. FOX News displayed doctored footage for the second time in a week. Is it time for heads to roll? [via The Daily Beast]
4. Andrew Lloyd Webber is back in the hospital after developing an infection following surgery for prostate cancer. [via Guardian]
5. Take a look at Vampire Weekend’s funny new video for “Cousins,” which is directed by Garth Jennings. [via Pitchfork]

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