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Old 09-19-2013, 03:40 PM   #1
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2013 National Book Awards Longlist For Fiction
The National Book Foundation announced its longlist for fiction today. How many have you read?


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2013 National Book Award Fiction Finalists
  • Tom Drury, Pacific (Grove Press)
  • Elizabeth Graver, The End of the Point (Harper/HarperCollinsPublishers)
  • Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
  • Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
  • Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (Hogarth/Random House)
  • James McBride, The Good Lord Bird (Riverhead Books/Penguin Group USA)
  • Alice McDermott, Someone (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge (The Penguin Press/Penguin Group USA)
  • George Saunders, Tenth of December (Random House)
  • Joan Silber, Fools (W.W. Norton & Company)

JUDGES

Charles Baxter, Gish Jen, Charles McGrath, Rick Simonson, René Steinke
Apologies if this has been posted already.
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Old 09-19-2013, 10:42 PM   #2
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Which country is this?
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The US

You can read more about it here..
http://www.nationalbook.org/aboutus_history.html
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Old 09-20-2013, 05:42 AM   #4
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I looked all these up on Amazon. I was underwhelmed.
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Another list that I have not read any. Oh, woe is me!!
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haven't read any of these, though the Kushner, Saunders & Marra books have been on my radar. I'll have to check them out. Thanks for posting.
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I've only read 10th of December. I thought it was great.
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I've only read 10th of December. I thought it was great.

"Tenth of December" has gotten incredible reviews. It looks to be a book of short stories, so the grouping in the first post appears to be a combination of both novels and short stories.

I'll also purchase Thomas Pynchon's new book - anything by him.




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I looked all these up on Amazon. I was underwhelmed.
Me too. The only thing here that actually looks interesting to me is:

Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief

The poetry selections look particularly underwhelming....
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I can recommend the Duke Ellington bio. Other than that I'll read Bleeding Edge, maybe The Lowland and that's about it from this particular list. Most of it is simply too US-specific to be of any interest.
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A clarification of the idea of a 'longlist,' taken from Wiki:

"Beginning with 2013, the Foundation announced a "longlist" of 10 titles in each of the four categories in September (40 titles), followed by a "finalist" list of 5 titles in October (20 titles), and then the winners in November (4 titles)."

I'm a huge Thomas Pynchon fan. If he wins, I wonder if he'll do what he did in 1973, although Irwin Corey at 99 may be too old to offer an 'acceptance' speech on behalf of the author.



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