National Book Award Finalists for 2013

The finalists for the National Book Award have been announced.


Have you read any of the nominated books or authors? Is there any one in particular that you are
rooting for in the way you'd root for the Dodgers or the Red Sox?

Which one of the nominated books and/or authors would you like to read if you were financially able to obtain a copy?

How much do a literary awards influence your decision to choose a partiular book?

And-- be honest-- wouldn't you just love to be nominated for something?















http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/bu...ounced.html?_r

2013 National Book Award winners will be announced tonight -- exciting!
If you're interested to see the list of all National Book Award winners for 2013 and prior years (dated back to 1950), check out the link below.
Cheers.

I recently started and stopped reading Lucie Brock-Broido's “Stay, Illusion” in the poetry category. Perhaps I should have finished it, but it rambled too much for me and I had other things to read at the time. Maybe I'll try it again later.

I read Pynchon's latest novel last month, but other than that I don't think I've read any of these.

And the National Book Award went to:


Fiction:
James McBride, The Good Lord Bird

Non-fiction:
George Packer, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

Poetry
Mary Szybist, Incarnadine

Young People's Literature
Cynthia Kadohata The Thing About Luck


Additionally, Maya Angelou received an award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community, and E.L. Doctorow was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/bo...ards.html?_r=0