This combination of photos released by Knopf shows the cover of "Everything Inside," by Edwidge Danticat, left, and a portrait of Danticat. Danticat's story collection has won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction. (Knopf/left, and Lynn Savarese via AP)NEW YORK, N.Y. – Edwidge Danticat's story collection “Everything Inside” has won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction. The critics circle usually announces its awards during a Manhattan ceremony, but called off the gathering over concerns about the coronavirus outbreak. Danticat's stories — tales of love, family and mortality set partly in her native Haiti — previously won the Story prize for best short fiction.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Aaron Persky, the former Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge known for his sentencing in the Brock Turner sexual assault case, has been hired as a high school tennis coach, according to school officials. Persky has begun the school season as the coach of Lynbrook High School's junior varsity girl's tennis team, said Rachel Zlotziver, a spokesperson for the Fremont Union High School District, in a statement. "He was a highly qualified applicant, having attended several tennis coaching clinics for youth and holds a high rating from the United States Tennis Association," Zlotziver said. The school held a meeting with the parents of tennis team members to give them background about Persky's situation, which garnered national attention. Persky was recalled from his position by voters in June 2018 after the controversial sentencing in the Stanford sexual assault case.

Turner loses appealIn releasing the book, says publisher Penguin Random House, Miller is reclaiming her identity. On January 18, 2015, at about 1 a.m., Turner raped Miller behind a Dumpster near an on-campus fraternity. In a 12-page impact statement that went viral, Miller said the rape left her "closed off, angry, self-deprecating, tired, irritable, empty." Her impact statement was also recited from the floor of the US House of Representatives. The power of Miller's impact statement demonstrated she had "the brain and the voice of a writer from the very beginning," she said.