The National Book Award finalists were announced today.
Fiction
Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)
Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (Random House)
Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (W. W. Norton & Co.)
Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf)
Marcel Theroux, Far North (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Non-Fiction
David M. Carroll, Following the Water: [...]
Have you been following The Cybils awards? I have! I’ve been looking forward to Valentines day not for the love and romance but because the Cybils are being announced! The Cybils are a series of book awards given by children’s and young adult book bloggers. The Cybils have only two criteria: literary merit and kid [...]
I’ve haven’t been this excited for award season before! Since the inception of this blog, I’ve been reading a lot more books that were published this past year. Although, I haven’t read nearly all the books getting Newbery buzz, I was curious to see how some of my favorites would do. So without further ado [...]
The National Book Award Winners were announced today.
Fiction
Winner:
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
Finalists:
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
Home by Marilynne Robinson
The End by Savatore Scibona
Non-Fiction
WINNER:
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
Finalists:
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
The Dark Side: The Inside [...]
The 2008 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced just moments ago! The winners are:
FICTION
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)
DRAMA
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
HISTORY
What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)
BIOGRAPHY
Eden’s Outcasts by John Matteson (W.W. Norton)
POETRY
Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins)
POETRY
Failure by Philip [...]
