Ron Charles is deputy editor and a weekly fiction critic of The Washington Post

The Washington Post

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"Book World

Book World

Book World or Bookworld may refer to:* "Book World", a defunct Chicago Tribune entertainment section* "Book World", a Washington Post entertainment section established in 1972* B.C...

", the book review section of the Post. Before joining Book World in 2005, Ron Charles was the book review editor and staff critic for seven years at The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor

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Charles won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award

National Book Critics Circle Award

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 Nona Balakian Citation, for book reviews.

Around August 2010, with his review of Franzen's Freedom, Charles began a series of video book reviews for the The Washington Post titled "The Totally Hip Video Book Review". In the series Charles hams it up with sight gags and intentionally bad joke

Joke

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s. It is a satirical look at current books in the news and the art of book reviewing.

External links

• Ron Charles, articles at The Washington Post
  The Washington Post
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• "Totally Hip Video Book Reviewer", videos at The Washington Post
• Ron Charles, at Twitter
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• Interview with Ron Charles, by Bookslut, 10/2009