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One fan remarked, “Does her phone case say what I think it says?”

Another posted on TikTok, “all the pazzi deniers are SILENT,” suggesting that fans are convinced that the friendship has become romantic. W. Norton and Company)

Poetry

• AFTER YOU WERE, I AM by Camille Ralphs (McSweeney's Publishing)
• CHRONICLE OF DRIFTING by Yuki Tanaka (Copper Canyon Press)
• DEATH OF THE FIRST IDEA by Rickey Laurentiis (Knopf)
• INTO THE HUSH by Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon Press)
• NIGHT WATCH by Kevin Young (Knopf)
• THE OTHER LOVE by Henri Cole (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• SALVAGE by Hedgie Choi (University of Wisconsin Press)
• SMALL LIVES by Gary Jackson (University of New Mexico Press)
• STAY DEAD by Natalie Shapero (Copper Canyon Press)
• UNRAVEL by Tolu Oloruntoba (McClelland & Stewart)

Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize

• BODIES FOUND IN VARIOUS PLACES by Elvira Hernández, translated from the Spanish by Daniel Borzutzky and Alec Schumacher (Cardboard House), Poetry
• EXOPHONY: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue, by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (New Directions), Nonfiction
• GAZA: The Poem Said Its Piece, by Nasser Rabah, translated from the Arabic by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal and Khaled Al-Hilli (City Lights), Poetry
• HEART LAMP by Banu Mushtaq, translated from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi (And Other Stories), Fiction
• NEAR DISTANCE by Hanna Stoltenberg, translated from the Norwegian by Wendy H.

  Gabrielsen (Biblioasis), Fiction

• SAD TIGER by Neige Sinno, translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer (Seven Stories Press), Nonfiction
• THE FROG IN THE THROAT by Markus Werner, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann (NYRB Classics), Fiction
• THE RUINS by Ye Hui, translated from the Chinese by Dong Li (Deep Vellum), Poetry
• THE WAX CHILD by Olga Ravn, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken (New Directions), Fiction
• UGLINESS by Moshtari Hilal, translated from the German by Elisabeth Lauffer (New Vessel Press), Nonfiction
• WE DO NOT PART by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by e.

  Some of Murphy’s major passions included art and music. W. Norton and Company)

• HEART THE LOVER by Lily King (Grove Press)
• LONG DISTANCE by Ayşegül Savaş (Bloomsbury Publishing)
• ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III) by Solvej Balle, translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell (New Directions)
• SEA, POISON by Caren Beilin (New Directions)
• THE SOUTH by Tash Aw (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• WE DO NOT PART by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by e.

  Her impact is immeasurable…she touched and inspired all with whom she encountered. The National Book Critics Circle Awards will be presented on March 26th at the New School in New York City.

  The National Book Critics Circle Awards, founded in 1974 at the Algonquin Hotel and considered among the most prestigious in American letters, are the sole prizes bestowed by a jury of working critics and book review editors.

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  Autobiography

  • BOOK OF LIVES: A Memoir of Sorts, by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday)
  • THE BROKEN KING by Michael Thomas (Grove Press)
  • I'LL TELL YOU WHEN I'M HOME: A Memoir, by Hala Alyan (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
  • MEMORIAL DAYS: A Memoir, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
  • MOTHER MARY COMES TO ME by Arundhati Roy (Scribner)
  • PAPER GIRL: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America, by Beth Macy (Penguin Press)
  • SHATTERED: A Memoir – Honest Hospital Dispatches on Physical Loss, Parenthood, and Finding Hope, Gratitude, and Love, by Hanif Kureishi (Ecco)
  • THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • A TRUCE THAT IS NOT PEACE by Miriam Toews (Bloomsbury Publishing)
  • TWICE BORN: Finding My Father in the Margins of Biography, by Hester Kaplan (Catapult)

  Biography

  • BUCKLEY: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America, by Sam Tanenhaus (Random House)
  • CONSTANTINE CAVAFY: A New Biography, by Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • LOVE, QUEENIE: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star, by Mayukh Sen (W.

    Above all else, Murphy was an incredibly loving wife and mother. She never missed a performance, a ball game, or occasion where her children were involved. The image quickly went viral. She made sure their family home was always beautiful and had an open arms policy. In fact, a February interview with GQ reinforced just how focused she is on her career.

    Still, despite the viral content and fan enthusiasm, neither Bueckers nor Fudd has confirmed anything beyond friendship. Murphy taught herself how to play the ukulele, a talent she shared with most every student in Ashdown. We can never thank you all enough. Murphy will be greatly missed and her lessons will live on through every family member she loved, every student she taught and every person whose life she touched.

    Murphy spent over 40 years working and later retiring, as a school teacher for the Ashdown public school system. She loved to paint and draw in her spare time, especially with her children and grandchildren. When and if Bueckers does say something about her sexuality, she’ll add to the more than 30% of WNBA players that are part of the LGBTQI+ community.

    Fudd’s phone case and shared memes have amplified fan speculation, but neither player has attributed context or confirmation to these acts.

    Bueckers has millions of followers across social platforms, endorsement deals with brands like Gatorade and StockX, and the weight of being seen as a face of the future WNBA. Murphy was larger than life and was a force to be reckoned with.

    

    Time will tell. A celebration of Murphy’s life will be at 2:00pm on Tuesday, December 23, 2025, at Texarkana, Funeral Home-Texas. While known for being overprotective, she was that way out of her utter and unconditional love.