Barbara Walters says the paparazzi were lying in wait, but she’s not saying anything about her future employment.
Walters returned to “The View” on Monday, after reports circulated widely the previous Friday that she would be retiring from television in May 2014. The television news legend is 83 years old.
She said photographers were waiting for her as she went to work on Monday, expecting she would discuss her future plans on the air. Instead, Walters had nothing to say about whether or not the stories were true, saying “I have no announcement to make.”
Walters created “The View” in 1997.
Non-authors added to National Book Awards panels
Prize-winning authors Charles Baxter and Gish Jen will be judges for this fall’s National Book Awards. But for the first time in decades, non-authors also will serve on the four panels that decide some of literature’s most prestigious honors.
The National Book Foundation announced Monday that Seattle-based bookseller Rick Simonson and former New York Times Book Review editor Charles McGrath will be among the journalists, bookstore officials and others recruited as judges. The foundation announced earlier this year that it was expanding the pool of potential judges in response to publishers’ concern that some recent winners had been too obscure. Several publishers serve as board members of the foundation.
Categories for the judging committees, each consisting of five members, will be fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature.
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