Tension! Surprises! Injury! It’s the Charles Taylor Prize! (National Post)
Jeffrey Simpson stepped up to the podium wearing sunglasses, an unusual choice of accessory for a 10 a.m. announcement regarding the annual Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction. But the newspaper columnist and jury member for this year’s award quickly explained that he was concealing a black eye, delivered to him by fellow juror Shirley Thomson, who landed a sharp right-hook during the ...
