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<ul><li>British Indian Novelist <keyword id="25391" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Salman-Rushdie">Salman Rushdie</keyword>'s yet to be published <keyword id="7543158" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Quichotte">Quichotte</keyword> is among the books on the 2019 Booker prize longlist.</li><li>The judges have described Quichotte as a "picaresque tour-de-force of contemporary America, with all its alarms and craziness."</li><li>Salman Rushdie, 72, had earlier won the Booker Prize for his second book Midnight's Children in 1981.</li><li>He is best known for writing Satanic Verses, which earned him awards as well as death threats. </li></ul>British Indian Novelist Salman Rushdie's yet to be published Quichotte i<a href="https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-salman-rushdie-margaret-atwood-in-2019-booker-longlist-2775364">s among the books on the 2019 Booker prize longlist.</a>The judges <a href="https://www.virginmediatelevision.ie/xpose/article/entertainment-news/291810/Sir-Salman-Rushdie-could-scoop-Booker-Prize-once-again">have described</a> Quichotte as a "picaresque tour-de-force of contemporary America, with all its alarms and craziness". Salman Rushdie, 72, had earlier won the Booker Prize for his second book ‘Midnight's Children’ in 1981. Indian filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/web-series/vishal-bhardwaj-midnight-children-netflix-5468425/">is soon going to launch a web series</a> based on Midnight's Children on Netflix. The story was made into a movie in 2012 by Deepa Mehta. In spite of his early success as a writer, Rushdie was the center point of many controversies. He received death threats over his controversial book Satanic Verses <a href="https://www.thequint.com/entertainment/celebrities/salman-rushdie-satanic-verses-padma-lakshmi-controversy">about</a> Islam, after which he lived for 12 years under British Security. In fact, it is<a href="https://www.dw.com/en/still-fighting-for-free-speech-salman-rushdie-turns-70/a-39301596-0"> believed </a>that there was a <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/iran-imposes-new-600000-fatwa-on-author-salman-rushdie/articleshow/51124985.cms">bounty</a> of as much as $4 million to kill him. However, the book won him the Whitbread Award in 1988. He is known to have penned down all the time he hided in his own autobiography, Joseph Anton, in hiding. The book was launched in 2012. The celebrated writer had started his career in the advertising industry before he turned into a writer. Almost forty years ago, Rusdhie <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/iran-imposes-new-600000-fatwa-on-author-salman-rushdie/articleshow/51124985.cms">couldn't pass a copy test </a>at J. Walter Thompson. However, he did get a job at Sharp Mc Manus after that. "The only question I remember was they asked you to imagine that you met a Martian who mysteriously spoke English and you had to explain to them in less than 100 words how to make toast." He worked as a freelance copywriter, an actor, and a journalist. His career as a writer was much celebrated as he was knighted by Elizabeth Queen II, for his contribution to literature.

Salman Rushdie, who dealt with death threats for his work gets another mention in the Booker Prize longlist

<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/insiderpicks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Insider Picks</a> writes about products and services to help you navigate when shopping online. Insider Inc. receives a commission from our affiliate partners when you buy through our links, but our reporting and recommendations are always independent and objective.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Alyssa Powell/Business Insider</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>The Man Booker Prize is one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world. </li><li>The Prize is awarded to what is, in the judges' opinion, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK. There's also an international award for books translated into English.</li><li>It's a great way to find the best books of the year, without having to read through hundreds of titles on your own. Below, you'll find the five winners of the last five years, as well as the six titles shortlisted each year. </li></ul>The Man Booker Prize is one of the literary world's most prestigious awards - and perhaps the one best equipped to help you find your next great read.To win the Man Booker Prize is to be declared the best fiction book of the year that was written in English and published in the UK and Ireland by a panel of judges meant to represent every side of the book world. In the past, that means that judges haven't been confined to "any in-group of literary critics, authors, and academics," but purposefully handpicked for a tribunal that more accurately represents the "common man" at large - including poets, politicians, journalists, broadcasters, and actors.Such an endorsement - and the £50,000 prize money awarded to first place - transforms an author's life and career. It correlates with a worldwide audience, drastically increased book sales, and something closer to financial freedom. For readers, it's also a great place to find your next great read. Instead of thumbing through stacks of books on your own to figure out the top 1%, you can leave the work up to the professionals and reap the benefits of their consensus: the best book of the year, and the six shortlisted titles falling closely behind it. Below, you'll find the 30 titles shortlisted or ranked number one in the last five years. The 2019 selections will be released later this year: the longlist on July 24, the shortlist on September 3, and the winner on October 14, 2019. Captions provided by Amazon and lightly edited for length.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/intelligence/5-biggest-questions-around-amazons-new-grocery-chain?IR=T&amp;itm_source=businessinsider&amp;itm_medium=ctgr_bii&amp;itm_term=ctgr_leadgen&amp;itm_content=ecommerce&amp;itm_campaign=5-biggest-questions-around-amazons-new-grocery-chain"></a>

The Man Booker Prize is the UK equivalent of America's Pulitzer Prize for books - these are all the finalists from the past 5 years

One look at <keyword id="2521490" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Man-Booker-2014">Man Booker 2014</keyword> finalists, and you would see it has fairly accommodated <keyword id="2521491" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="British-Writers">British writers</keyword>, with a dash of American <keyword id="6404409" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="writers">writers</keyword>, with a hint of an Australian writer, and a Scottish one – just to keep the flavours from bursting out too loud. This year, <keyword id="651566" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Man-Booker">Man Booker</keyword> organisers had said once that the list was getting as ‘diverse’ as it can. 
 
While English as a language has been traversing through unknown terrains, appropriating expressions from native hinterlands as its own, gaining newer dimensions, the competition between genuine vs borrowed is getting even hotter. 
 Indian-origin <keyword id="628756" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Neel-Mukherjee">Neel Mukherjee</keyword>, who is more aptly called a British citizen, has made a cut. And so has Tasmania’s Richard Flanagan. Ali Smith’s How to be both and Joshua Ferris’ To Rise Again at a Decent Hour make it to the list too. American authors Joshua Ferris and Karen Joy Fowler have been sending joy-waves through their country’s literary clubs. Diversity, did we hear? 
 
Two major publishing houses who are allies now, are responsible for five of the six publications in the shortlist. Now, now, now…that’s called an eye for talent and a surefire shot at picking writers who are certain to grab the headlines. Because, once a Booker finalist, is always a celebrated writer! 
 
In any case, this year’s finalists pack some genuine expressions in their works. English has been a language that has been some sort of a laboratory for experiment of expressions. A writer is often in search of newer expressions to transfer the sum of his experiences. 
 
Whether it is Neel Mukherjee’s family saga set in Kolkata in the 1960s, or Flangan focusing on Australian PoWs being used as forced labour on the Burma Death Railway, or Jacobson’s for his ‘J’ where flitting images of past and the progressive imagination of those phases create a dangerous concoction of schemas – English as a language has surely been reaching its potential since long. 
 
With three British writers, two Americans and an Australian to keep the scale from tipping against the intent of the Booker Committee which had said it would open doors to writers of any nationality in its over four and half decades of history. There is another perspective to the works that are being selected for the shortlist of Man Booker prize 2014. When you look at the works, they are varied and not really set in the ‘English’ identity. Some jar as works, some simply mesmerise. 
 
Opening Booker doors to English writers from other nationalities like India was to introduce more character into the works dealing with fractured consciousness till late. Will this prompt writers from other languages to turn towards English? 
 
After all, no matter how recluse a writer is; who does not want his/her works to cross the borders of his country and be accessed by millions and millions who are looking for some fresh expressions? Why not? Literature is, after all, a medium to change minds, to wipe out biases, to incite feelings that may help empathy. In the war torn borders, and the ever tense world that’s chasing some elusive happiness, a writer is an artist who can create newer spaces in the minds of the reader. 
 
Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others sounds like he has borrowed the title from a film. The experience that’s transferred from his work is close to the experience that all countries in transition from old to new are facing. It’s relevant across the geographical borders. 
 
If Mukherjee manages to win the title and take home the purse of £ 72,000, Kolkata will yet again be the final word on literature from India that could be represented in the west. It would further encourage more and more writers who could have found expressions in their mother-tongue which happens to be Bengali, to think, speak and write in English. 
 
Will Man Booker do any good to authors and winners? It’s always a double edged sword that is bound to cut both ways. An author who nurses the ambition of reaching far and beyond, high and higher, prizes like Man Booker do hold a lot of promise. 
 
It is difficult to say whether the Man Booker Foundation opened gates first to authors of different nationalities writing in English, or the authors claimed the space first and Man Booker Committee merely acknowledged the fact that literary works in English were coming mostly from people who were from different identities than the ones who were conventionally considered eligible. 
 
In an egg first or chicken, kind of situation the loss may be more than evident in the coming years. By opening gates, Man Booker may stand to gain a lot with works from different nationalities pouring into its quarters, but what would be ruined is the writers writing in their mother tongue. That would be a death blow to some native languages.

Man Booker: Embracing A New Language, Casting Expressions In A Different Mold

The air is crisp and it is the perfect weather to cozy up with a book and maybe brave the chilly winds to attend literary fests in the comfortable winter sun. 
 ZEE JLF exclusively shared the shortlist of all the amazing books and authors discovered and loved over the 10 years of the Festival starting 2006 for you to play catch-up to, with <keyword id="824043" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Business-Insider">Business Insider</keyword>. 
 
There are of course categories over which the favorites have been divided and here they are: 
 
1) Female Writers - ‘Badass <keyword id="624" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Women">women</keyword> writing for/about badass women’ includes: 
 -Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by <keyword id="2704735" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Anita-Anand">Anita Anand</keyword>, which looks at the life of an Indian princess and goddaughter of <keyword id="6377522" type="POSITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="queen">Queen</keyword> <keyword id="5657" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Victoria">Victoria</keyword> who went on to become a leading figure in the British suffragette movement. 
 -The <keyword id="4049788" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="essential-gloria-steinem">Essential Gloria Steinem</keyword> Reader: As If Women Matter, a compilation of the feminist icon's writing; two books discussing sexuality and gender in the Middle East. 
 -Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middles East Needs a Sexual Revolution by <keyword id="845515" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mona-Eltahawy">Mona Eltahawy</keyword> and Sex and the Citadel by <keyword id="2171668" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Shereen-El-Feki">Shereen El Feki</keyword>, which offer a provocative and revealing look into this touchy issue. 
 - Postmodern feminist classic The Handmaid's Tale by the brilliant <keyword id="221634" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Margaret-Atwood">Margaret Atwood</keyword> 
 -'We Should All Be Feminists' by <keyword id="4049784" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="chimamanda-ngozi-adhichie">Chimamanda Ngozi Adhichie</keyword>, which was featured in Beyonce's 'Flawless' and is required reading in Swedish schools. 
 
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2) Memoirs - Known to inspire the most latent of dreams, learning from the experiences and challenges of others. 
 
-Jung Chang's family saga Wild Swans; Molly Crabapple's stunning memoir-manifesto. 
 -Drawing Blood; In Other Words by <keyword id="89243" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jhumpa-Lahiri">Jhumpa Lahiri</keyword>, a nuanced look into learning and writing in Italian. 
 
-Jerry Pinto's Em and the Big Hoom, an autobiographical work of fiction of a boy's account of life with his mentally ill mother. 
 -Helen Macdonald's <keyword id="157266" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Samuel-Johnson">Samuel Johnson</keyword> Prize-winning H is for Hawk. 
 
3) Hindi and <keyword id="52565" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="urdu">Urdu</keyword> writers - Instrumental in shaping the outlook of the regional literature. Some of the Festival team's favorite books include: 
 
-Saadat Hasan Manto, an Urdu writer seen by many as a master of the short story. 
 
- The Mirror of Beauty, originally published in Urdu, is an epic novel set in the last days of the Mughal empire. 
 -Krishna Sobti's <keyword id="4049785" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="zindaginama">Zindaginama</keyword>, a classic of Hindi literature. 
 
-Abdullah Hussein’s The Weary Generations, an instant bestseller in Urdu, now in its 40th edition and one that’s never been out of print. 
 
4) African literature- Moving across seas to the literary genius of <keyword id="12925" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="20" keywordseo="Africa">Africa</keyword>, they explored the continent to bring out prominent writers: 
 
-Ben Okri's Man Booker Prize-winning The Famished Road. 
 
-Taiye Selasi's debut Ghana Must Go chronicles the lives of a Ghanaian-Nigerian family across generations and continents. 
 - The brilliant Half of a Yellow Sun by <keyword id="538649" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Chimamanda-Ngozi-Adichie">Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie</keyword>. 
 -The first installment of Zimbabwean-born <keyword id="99628" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Alexander-McCall-Smith">Alexander McCall Smith</keyword>'s beloved No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. 
 - African Psycho by Congolese writer <keyword id="2861092" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Alain-Mabanckou">Alain Mabanckou</keyword>, described by <keyword id="425741" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="The-Economist">The Economist</keyword> as the 'prince of absurd'. 
 
-Open City, the bestselling debut by Teju Cole who's been hailed as ‘the WG Sebald of the 21st century’. 
 
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5) Non-fiction- Chronicling real events and places, often more bizarre and unique than imagination itself, is a talent not bestowed to all.: 
 -Maximum City by <keyword id="80841" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="suketu-mehta">Suketu Mehta</keyword> offers a revealing portrait of <keyword id="6356654" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bombay">Bombay</keyword>. 
 
-Raghu Karnad's spectacular debut Farthest Field explores the often overlooked role of Indian soldiers in WW2 through the lives of his grandfather and grand-uncles. 
 -The award-winning Behind the Beautiful Forevers by <keyword id="3916987" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Katherine-Boo">Katherine Boo</keyword> is another searingly honest look into Mumbai. 
 -Jerusalem: The Biography by bestselling writer and historian <keyword id="1359419" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Simon-Sebag-Montefiore">Simon Sebag Montefiore</keyword>. 
 -Peter Frankopan's fascinating The <keyword id="48523" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Silk">Silk</keyword> Roads: A New History of the World 
 - <keyword id="5487" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="William-Dalrymple">William Dalrymple</keyword>'s Return of a King: The Battle for <keyword id="6354541" type="COUNTRY" weightage="20" keywordseo="afghanistan">Afghanistan</keyword>, winner of the Hemingway Prize and <keyword id="4049790" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="kapuciski-prize">Kapuściński Prize</keyword> in 2015. 
 
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 This year, the Festival, which opens from January 19 to 23, 2017, has its speaker’s table going full force with participation from noteworthy names, such as Man <keyword id="56252" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="20" keywordseo="Booker-Prize">Booker Prize</keyword> winners Paul Beatty, Richard Flanagan and <keyword id="721253" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Alan-Hollinghurst">Alan Hollinghurst</keyword>, prolific Indian-American writer <keyword id="157413" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Chitra-Banerjee-Divakaruni">Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni</keyword>, famed <keyword id="6354291" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="kannada">Kannada</keyword> writer S.L. Bhyrappa, poets Anne Waldman, Gulzar, <keyword id="10355" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Javed-Akhtar">Javed Akhtar</keyword> and <keyword id="4049789" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="kate-tempest">Kate Tempest</keyword> and politician and polymath <keyword id="42749" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Shashi-Tharoor">Shashi Tharoor</keyword>.

Here are the top books of Jaipur Literature Festival for the past decade

<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Mitchell_by_Kubik.JPG">Wikimedia Commons</a>David Mitchell</div></div>British novelist <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DavidMitchellAuthor">David Mitchell</a> is an expert when it comes to characters, but not writing 140 characters at a time. Nevertheless, he's written his latest work for Twitter, publishing the short story in 140-character tweets because that's how he wants you to read it.
Mitchell, whose novels "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Number9Dream-David-Mitchell/dp/0812966929">number9dream</a>" and "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Atlas-Novel-David-Mitchell/dp/0375507256">Cloud Atlas</a>" were shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize, admitted he's not a huge fan of Twitter. "I'm not really a social media animal," he told the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/globalnews">BBC World Service</a> radio station. "I like my privacy. Post Snowden we know that there's enough people to want to take our privacy away without voluntarily helping them. I don't want to add to this ocean of trivia and irrelevance."
Mitchell only created a Twitter account in the first place after his publicist convinced him that it would help promote his upcoming novel "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Bone-Clocks-A-Novel/dp/1400065674">The Bone Clocks</a>." But he wanted to offer his Twitter followers something more. "It still kind of bothered me a little bit that I was using this Arab Spring-sized technology just to basically say, 'Hi, I'm going off on the road, come and see me, buy my book.' It just seemed a bit cheesy, really, so I thought, 'How can I find a use for it?'" 
The story, "The Right Sort," is narrated by a teen tripping on his mother's Valium pills for the first time. The boy's experience of the world on Valium is "a sequence of nice little throbs and pulses," which he likes because it's more orderly, Mitchell said. "Those are the tweets. He's basically thinking in tweets because of the Valium."
He admits publishing his short story on Twitter is a clever marketing tool for his unrelated upcoming novel. But Mitchell also hopes his short bursts of tweets will provide a stronger reading experience than the traditional method. 
"With Twitter it's less like a balloon flight where you look down and see the text and more like sort of a train ride with a very narrow window through rapidly changing landscapes and tunnels," he said. "You can't see it all at once."
"The Right Sort" will be comprised of 280 tweets over the course of a week, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/14/david-mitchell-publishes-short-story-twitter">The Guardian reports</a>. Mitchell has been tweeting since early this week and will continue posting bursts of 20 tweets each day through the weekend.
Here's one of his recent tweets.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
I wait. Silence. Just my breaths, the empty passage, running down the side. The brambles move like hungry underwater things.
- David Mitchell (@david_mitchell) <a href="https://twitter.com/david_mitchell/statuses/490016118593966080">July 18, 2014</a></blockquote>
Mitchell admitted writing his short story for a Twitter audience was challenging. He compared the narrow confines of a 140-character tweet to a straight jacket, but acknowledged that it helped him write a story that was new for him.

This Bestselling Novelist Has An Excellent Reason For Publishing His Latest Short Story On Twitter

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Once considered a 2020 frontrunner at the beginning of this year, Sen. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-kamala-harris-bio-age-family-key-positions-2019-3">Kamala Harris</a>' sudden exit from the 2020 Democratic presidential field shocked many of her fellow Democrats.</li><li>Harris announced her departure from the race on Tuesday amid discouraging polling numbers and reports of financial struggle, infighting, and turmoil within her campaign team.</li><li>Many of her fellow 2020 contenders and other Democrats expressed sadness and surprise at her departure, which also sparked a wider conversation about gender and race in politics.</li><li>Some Democratic operatives argued Harris' exit demonstrated political savvy, while others said it illuminated what they call sexist and racist treatment she's received from pundits and the media. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>. </li></ul>Once considered a 2020 frontrunner, Sen. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-kamala-harris-bio-age-family-key-positions-2019-3">Kamala Harris</a>' sudden exit from the 2020 presidential field on Tuesday surprised her fellow Democrats.Despite qualifying for the Dec. 19 Democratic debate, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-dropping-out-2020-democratic-presidential-race-2019-12">Harris announced her departure</a> from the primary amid discouraging polling numbers and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harriss-campaign-is-facing-an-internal-revolt-2019-11">reports</a> of financial struggle, infighting, and turmoil within her campaign team."I was very surprised by it," Christine Pelosi, a Democratic strategist and the daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, told Insider. "It was rather shocking when I got a text from someone - I thought, 'that can't be.'" Pelosi said she thought Harris had enough grassroots support to hit 15% of the vote in the Iowa caucuses in February - the threshold necessary for candidates to earn delegates. She thinks Harris' financial struggles were the nail in the coffin. Harris was also facing a looming deadline in her home state, where the ballot will be finalized later this month. A poor primary performance there could've had broad implications for her future in both the 2020 race and the Senate. Ian Russell, a Democratic congressional strategist, said the timing of Harris' exit demonstrated "savvy.""This way she doesn't risk a drubbing in California that could lead to some ambitious Democrat primarying her for the Senate seat," Russell told Insider. Harris, formerly California's attorney general and San Francisco's district attorney, was immediately recognized as a rising Democratic star upon her election to the US Senate in 2016 and quickly positioned herself as one of the Senate's most outspoken and progressive members. Some Democratic operatives lamented Harris' departure. "Kamala Harris is so much better and more qualified than many of the candidates still in the race," Rebecca Katz, a progressive New York-based strategist, told Insider. But Democratic strategists say Harris won't be leaving the national spotlight anytime soon. Adrienne Elrod, a Democratic strategist and former spokesperson for Hillary Clinton, told Insider that she was "saddened" by Harris' departure but thinks the senator will have "a prominent place" in the party for "decades to come." "While her campaign clearly had some struggles, Kamala Harris is a trailblazer and brought so much passion, energy, and plenty of smart, creative ideas about how to make our country a better place to the primary debate," Elrod said. Jesse Ferguson, a former spokesman for Hillary Clinton, told Insider that Harris is "a young, rising-star senator with an influential role in the Senate."He added, "This is far from her last act in politics."Some are already speculating that Harris will be an attractive vice presidential running mate. "I'm sure there's a lot of healing and mourning that needs to go on, but I think she'd be on anybody's shortlist to be vice president," Pelosi said. <h2>Harris' historic candidacy also sparked commentary on the role of gender and racial bias in American politics</h2>With Harris' exit from the race, the six candidates who have qualified to participate in the December Democratic primary debate are all white, a striking contrast to the diverse Democratic electorate. Pelosi, who went to law school with Harris and has long been a supporter of the senator, argued that Harris received more criticism from pundits and the media over her "message and management stumbles" than did many of the white and male candidates. "You really can't tell the story about Kamala Harris 2020 without speaking of the sexism, the 'misogynoir,' and the big money in politics," she said. "I credit her with the integrity to see she could overcome one or two, but not all three, of those factors." She argued that the party and the media's handling of Harris' exit from the race will impact how black women perceive the party and politics generally. "The only black woman in the race has left the stage, so how your treat her demise will be a sign to other black women about how you value them," Pelosi said. <h2>Harris received public displays of support from her family and some campaign staffers:</h2><h2>Other 2020 Democrats and Democratic activists were sad to see her go:</h2><h2>The Trump campaign reacted with glee, posting a tweet referencing Harris' feud with Rep. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-tulsi-gabbard-bio-age-family-key-positions-2019-4">Tulsi Gabbard</a>:</h2>Gabbard herself, however, tweeted out a gracious and laudatory response to Harris' departure from the race: Read more:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-dropping-out-2020-democratic-presidential-race-2019-12">Kamala Harris is dropping out of the 2020 Democratic presidential race</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harriss-campaign-is-facing-an-internal-revolt-2019-11">Kamala Harris' campaign is facing an internal revolt over disastrous management that's taken her out of the top tier of contenders</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-kamala-harris-bio-age-family-key-positions-2019-3">Kamala Harris ran for president in 2020. Here's everything we know about the candidate and how she stacked up against the competition.</a>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>This post originally appeared in the Insider Today newsletter.</li></ul>Good morning. The FBI said it is investigating "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-shots-fired-florida-golf-course-2024-9">what appears to be an attempted assassination</a>" of former President Donald Trump. Trump was uninjured following shots that were fired near his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday, according to his campaign and the US Secret Service.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-ryan-wesley-routh-second-trump-assassination-attempt-suspect-2024-9">Here's what we know about the shooting suspect</a>, who is in law enforcement custody.Meanwhile, in today's newsletter, we're looking at how AWS is ramping up its sales team <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ai-sales-machine-aws-google-microsoft-pressure-pay-speed-2024-9">to pitch customers on AI</a>.What's on deck:<ul><li>Markets: It's not legal, but that doesn't stop the rich from doing it to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/white-collar-fraud-wealthy-class-tax-evasion-insider-trading-2024-9">keep their fortunes growing</a>.</li><li>Tech: He oversees a Google cofounder's fortune. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-family-office-koop-ceo-wayne-osborne-wealth-management-2024-9">Now his playbook is for sale</a>.</li><li>Business: Welcome to a new era of jobs: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-portfolio-career-pros-cons-income-streams-side-hustles-2024-9">the portfolio career</a>.</li></ul>But first, coffee is for closers.If this was forwarded to you, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription/newsletter/insider-today">sign up here.</a><h3 id="7fa5f018-5b05-4a37-a8dc-d3f89138bcb3">The big story</h3><h2 id="5fd547b9-ec52-41fc-8e08-4f4b27dd8097">Sell, sell, sell</h2><div type="image" title="Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman surrounded by AWS Logo, and graph with upward trending line" height="1000" width="2000" msid="113399088" hostid="261" sizebytes="117946"></div>When it comes to the AI revolution, building is only half the battle.After drawing scrutiny from investors about their massive investments in generative AI, tech companies are prioritizing getting returns on their big bets.At Amazon Web Services, that's meant a new <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ai-sales-machine-aws-google-microsoft-pressure-pay-speed-2024-9">internal sales campaign focused on its AI offerings</a>, writes Business Insider's Eugene Kim.The three-pronged strategy, dubbed "Find One, Launch One, Ramp One," is about selling, installing, and generating revenue for Amazon's AI assistant, Q, and AI platform, Bedrock.A key piece of the plan is obviously AWS' salespeople, who are being incentivized with performance bonuses tied to Q and Bedrock and even a pizza party at an executive's home for top performers. (I'd probably just opt for the cash.)But it's not just salespeople getting in on the action. Staffers meant to implement tools with customers or craft the right cloud service for a client are now being encouraged to get more involved in the sales process.An AWS spokesperson told Eugene the company is merely responding to their customers' needs, and that the lines between salespeople and non-salespeople are still clear.<div type="image" title="Amazon, OpenAI and Microsoft logo." height="900" width="2000" msid="113399092" hostid="261" sizebytes="52140"></div>AWS' pressure to ramp up AI sales isn't just focused on ROI.While it's long been a leader in the public cloud space, Amazon hasn't held the same dominance in the AI race. In particular, it's faced stiff competition from rival Microsoft, which benefited from its early bet on OpenAI.As a result, AWS has become more aggressive with its AI strategy, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-aws-sales-guidelines-spread-doubt-about-openai-ai-capabilities-2024-8">spreading doubts about its competitors to customers</a>.But apart from all the fighting over customers and the push to create cutting-edge tools, a bigger question remains: Does anyone even want this stuff?It's still early days, but <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pharma-cio-cancelled-microsoft-copilot-ai-tool-2024-7">Microsoft</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-q-ai-early-challenges-aws-chatbot-2024-9">Amazon</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-gemini-woke-images-ai-chatbot-criticism-controversy-2024-2">Google</a> have all previously gotten some not-so-great feedback on their tools. And while these companies can't afford not to pitch their customers on AI tech, they also risk turning them off to the idea by selling them products that might not live up to expectations.I don't mean to sound naive. I am well aware this is a business that needs to make money. And sometimes not doing something can be just as risky as rushing into something.But it's a fine line to balance for tech companies banking on AI being the industry's next gold mine.<h3 id="77f31a4c-8462-4e3d-a71f-838cb79493fb">News brief</h3><h2 id="1fcd294b-3f53-425f-9f20-4093e8623b59">Top headlines</h2><ul><li>Welcome to interest-rate cut week: Here's how the Fed's next move will impact <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/interest-rate-cuts-decision-this-week-federal-reserve-powell-inflation-2024-9">everything from home prices to new cars loans</a>.</li><li>Here are the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2024-emmy-winners-list-nominees-76th-primetime-awards">2024 Emmy winners</a>.</li><li>Trump's favorite hobby presents a <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-golf-course-shooting-secret-service-challenges-assassination-attempt-2024-9">'nightmare' security challenge</a>, former Secret Service agent says.</li></ul><h2 id="8120060b-ae66-48dc-b149-f0489a30ffa2">3 things in markets</h2><div type="image" title="A collage showing a businessman along with the definiition of embezzlement and tax evasion." height="1000" width="2000" msid="113399097" hostid="261" sizebytes="219896"></div><ol><li>What's hot in white collar crime. These are the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/white-collar-fraud-wealthy-class-tax-evasion-insider-trading-2024-9">most common illegal maneuvers</a> the rich use to get richer, according to defense attorneys. The top of the list may not surprise you — after all, Martha Stewart, Al Capone, and "The Situation" got busted for the same one.</li><li>Clouds roll over the Sunshine State's housing market. It's getting harder and harder to enjoy living in Florida. Once among the pandemic's hottest housing markets, the state is increasingly expensive, hot, and crowded, residents say. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-housing-market-sales-weather-climate-change-retirement-pandemic-costs-2024-9">Expect gray days for Florida's real estate</a>.</li><li>Starting a hedge fund? Don't do this. Hedge fund launches are on the rise, but the funding environment is mixed. Two top Morgan Stanley bankers broke down common early mistakes <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/morgan-stanley-prime-brokerage-novick-shaw-startup-hedge-fund-mistakes-2024-9">and what to do instead</a>.</li></ol><h2 id="f4b54806-7f81-450c-ba32-92560d4fae9b">3 things in tech</h2><div type="image" title="Photo collage of Wayne Osborne and Google co-founder Larry Page, surrounded by Google search elements, the Google logo, falling money, yachts, and private islands" height="1500" width="2000" msid="113399090" hostid="261" sizebytes="172450"></div><ol><li>For sale: the sacred playbook of Larry Page's money man. Wayne Osborne has been the keeper of the keys to the Google cofounder for years. Now, he's stepping out of the shadows with his own wealth management company to put his trade secrets to work for other clients. Insiders say the goal is to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-family-office-koop-ceo-wayne-osborne-wealth-management-2024-9">dominate wealth management</a> the way Page dominated online search.</li><li>How Elon fumbled Twitter — and apparently gave Grimes' baby name to his other child. A new book by Ryan Mac and Kate Conger unearths new details about the chaotic period in 2022 when Musk decided to buy Twitter, and its descent into ~whatever it is now~. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-grimes-baby-name-new-book-character-limit-2024">They spoke to BI about what they found</a>.</li><li>Google's feeling lucky. The online search giant dodged a jury trial in its big adtech case, thwarting the Justice Department's hopes. The juryless trial came with a price tag, though: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-dodged-jury-advertising-antitrust-trial-with-check-damages-2024-9">$2,289,751, to be exact</a>.</li></ol><h2 id="9260fa45-d397-4b3c-b4f8-4bb193976216">3 things in business</h2><div type="image" title="A smaller and duller city next to a bright and shiny larger city" height="1500" width="2000" msid="113399086" hostid="261" sizebytes="433752"></div><ol><li>Why you probably hate your downtown. There are two versions of the American downtown: one is designed to serve office workers and tourists, and the other is more local-centric, with plenty of housing, schools, and local businesses. Ironically, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2-kinds-of-cities-explains-why-you-hate-your-downtown-2024-9">tourists prefer the latter</a>, but many cities are still depending on the former to revive their economies.</li><li>Meet the portfolio career. We've entered a new era of work where more people are becoming overemployed and diving into multiple sides of hustles instead of the traditional 9-to-5. There's a lot of flexibility and earning potential when it comes to a portfolio career, but <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-portfolio-career-pros-cons-income-streams-side-hustles-2024-9">it's not for everyone</a>.</li><li>Hollywood's bleeding under post-strike pressures. Despite gains in wages and benefits won after last year's Hollywood writers' and actors' strikes, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tv-shows-bounce-back-new-rules-bring-pain-hollywood-points-2024-9">the industry is still struggling</a>. Spending on new content has significantly declined, and everyone's biting their nails over AI.</li></ol><h2 id="1ad7b482-3f4b-44b4-81b6-a864aa386478">In other news</h2><ul><li>I went to Big Lots and saw why the chain is <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/big-lots-felt-like-stepping-back-in-time-retail-discount-2024-9">closing stores and filing for bankruptcy</a>.</li><li>How Bear Grylls spends his 5 to 9 — <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bear-grylls-daily-routine-barefoot-walks-cold-plunges-plenty-meat-2024-9">from walking barefoot outdoors to cold plunges</a>.</li><li>Meet the 10 biggest wealth gainers this year — <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wealth-gain-rich-list-billionaires-nvidia-huang-meta-zuckerberg-buffett-2024-9">who've added a combined $360 billion to their fortunes in 2024</a>.</li></ul><h2 id="9f5d80ac-3466-429f-a50a-2ffbb70c65ff">What's happening today</h2><ul><li>Kamala Harris meets with Teamsters leaders.</li><li>Court hearing in TikTok's challenge to a Biden administration law forcing the app's sale or ban.</li><li>The Booker Prize for Fiction shortlist nominees are announced.</li></ul>The Insider Today team: Dan DeFrancesco, deputy editor and anchor, in New York. 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