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    A Different Kind of March Madness

    Feb 14, 2018 4 minutes
    –ANDREW MCFADYEN-KETCHUM

    men’s college basketball teams battle it out on the court in the NCAA tournament. Bets are laid and rivalries stoked as millions of fans tune in to watch the games. Meanwhile, a different kind of March Madness—complete with brackets, rivalry, and trash talking—has been taking place in the literary world for the past thirteen years: the annual Tournament of Books (ToB). Hatched in 2004 by writers Rosecrans Baldwin, Andrew Womack, and Kevin Guilfoile, the ToB pits books of fiction published in the previous year against one another in a format similar to the NCAA tournament,

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