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National Book Award Winners

Nov 17, ’11 9:42 AM

The National Book Awards were announced last night at a ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York.

The nominees are…
National Book Award - Fiction

FICTION

  • Andrew Krivak, The Sojourn (Bellevue Literary Press)
  • Téa Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife (Random House)
  • Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic (Alfred A. Knopf)
  • Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision (Lookout Books)
  • Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury USA)

And the award goes to…Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury USA)

National Book Award - Non-Fiction
NONFICTION

  • Deborah Baker, The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism
    (Graywolf Press)
  • Mary Gabriel, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution (Little, Brown and Company)
  • Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
    (W. W. Norton & Company)
  • Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Viking
  • Lauren Redniss, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout (It Books)

And the award goes to…Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (W. W. Norton & Company)

National Book Award - Poetry
POETRY

  • Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split (TriQuarterly)
  • Yusef Komunyakaa, The Chameleon Couch (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Carl Phillips, Double Shadow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Adrienne Rich, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010
    (W.W. Norton & Company)
  • Bruce Smith, Devotions (University of Chicago Press)

And the award goes to…Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split (TriQuarterly, an imprint of Northwestern University Press)

National Book Award - Young People's Literature
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE

  • Franny Billingsley, Chime (Dial Books)
  • Debby Dahl Edwardson, My Name Is Not Easy (Marshall Cavendish)
  • Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again (Harper)
  • Albert Marrin, Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy (Alfred A. Knopf)
  • Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now (Clarion Books)

And the award goes to…Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again (Harper)

Congratulations to all.

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NBA Winners

Nov 18, ’10 9:42 AM

National Book Award Winner

The 2010 National Book Award winners were announced at a ceremony at the Cipriani banquet hall in New York last night. The winners are:

FICTION

Lord of Misrule (McPherson & Co.) by Jaimy Gordon

A novel of luck, pluck, farce and above all horse racing not at tony and elegant sites like Churchill Downs and Ascot but rather at a rinky-dink racetrack in Indian Mound Downs, W.Va.

Exceptional writing and idiosyncratic characters make this an engaging read.”
—Kirkus Reviews

NON-FICTION

Just Kids (Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers) by Patti Smith

This beautifully crafted love letter to her friend (who died in 1989) functions as a memento mori of a relationship fueled by a passion for art and writing. Smith transports readers to what seemed like halcyon days for art and artists in New York as she shares tales of the denizens of Max’s Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner’s, Brentano’s, and Strand bookstores. In the lobby of the Chelsea, where she and Mapplethorpe lived for many years, she got to know William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Johnny Winter. Most affecting in this tender and tough memoir, however, is her deep love for Mapplethorpe and her abiding belief in his genius. Smith’s elegant eulogy helps to explain the chaos and the creativity so embedded in that earlier time and in Mapplethorpe’s life and work.
—Publishers Weekly (Jan.)

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POETRY

Lighthead (Penguin Books) by Terrance Hayes

The deservedly acclaimed Hayes returns in his fourth book with the kinds of sly, twisting, hip, jazzy poems his fans have come to expect, but also with a new somberness of tone and mature caution.
—Publishers Weekly (Apr.)

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YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE

Mockingbird (Penguin Books) by Kathryn Erskine

Much more than a story about a determined girl dealing with a disability, Erskine’s moving and insightful masterpiece delivers a compelling message for all–that striving to understand others is a beginning point for addressing the incivility and hostility present in today’s world.
—Publishers Weekly (Nov.)

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Congratulations to the winners.

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NBA Finals

Nov 13, ’10 9:42 PM

The NBA Finals in November? Didn’t LeBron just get warmed up? Not THAT NBA. The National Book Awards will be announced on Wednesday. Ron Charles of the Washington Post handicaps the fiction nominees.

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National Book Award Nominees

Oct 14, ’10 9:42 PM

National Book Award FinalistPat Conroy announced the nominees for the National Book Award from the parlor of Flannery O’Connor’s childhood home in Savannah, GA yesterday.

The winners will be announced on November 17th at the 61st National Book Awards Benefit Dinner in New York City.

The nominees are:
NBA - Fiction Nominees

Fiction

Peter Carey for Parrot and Olivier in America (Alfred A. Knopf)
Jaimy Gordon for Lord of Misrule (McPherson & Co.)
Nicole Krauss for Great House (W.W. Norton & Co.)
Lionel Shriver for So Much for That (Harper)
Karen Tei Yamashita for I Hotel (Coffee House Press)

NBA - Non-Fiction Nominees

Nonfiction

Barbara Demick for Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Spiegel & Grau)
John W. Dower for Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq (W.W. Norton & Co.)
Patti Smith for Just Kids (Ecco)
Justin Spring for Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Megan K. Stack for Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War (Doubleday)

NBA - Poetry Nominees

Poetry

Kathleen Graber for The Eternal City (Princeton University Press)
Terrance Hayes for Lighthead (Viking Penguin)
James Richardson for By the Numbers (Copper Canyon Press)
C.D. Wright for One with Others (Copper Canyon Press)
Monica Youn for Ignatz (Four Way Books)

NBA - Young People's Literature Nominees

Young People’s Literature

Paolo Bacigalupi for Ship Breaker (Little, Brown & Co.)
Kathryn Erskine for Mockingbird (Philomel Books)
Laura McNeal for Dark Water (Alfred A. Knopf)
Walter Dean Myers for Lockdown (Amistad)
Rita Williams-Garcia for One Crazy Summer (Amistad)

Congratulations to all of the nominees.

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New Poet Laureate

Jul 1, ’10 9:42 PM

W.S. MerwinCongratulations to W.S. Merwin who was named the new Poet Laureate today. He succeeds Kay Ryan. Mr. Merwin is a very deserving recipient of the honor, having won two Pultizer Prizes and a National Book Award.

Below is one of my favorite poems. I get very emotional every time I read it – thinking about my own father and the words left unsaid between us. My dad died in 2003 from colon cancer. I miss him a lot.

Yesterday

My friend says I was not a good son
you understand
I say yes I understand

he says I did not go
to see my parents very often you know
and I say yes I know

even when I was living in the same city he says
maybe I would go there once
a month or maybe even less
I say oh yes

he says the last time I went to see my father
I say the last time I saw my father

he says the last time I saw my father
he was asking me about my life
how I was making out and he
went into the next room
to get something to give me

oh I say
feeling again the cold
of my father’s hand the last time

he says and my father turned
in the doorway and saw me
look at my wristwatch and he
said you know I would like you to stay
and talk with me

oh yes I say

but if you are busy he said
I don’t want you to feel that you
have to
just because I’m here

I say nothing

he says my father
said maybe
you have important work you are doing
or maybe you should be seeing
somebody I don’t want to keep you

I look out the window
my friend is older than I am
he says and I told my father it was so
and I got up and left him then
you know

though there was nowhere I had to go
and nothing I had to do

From “Opening the Hand,” by W. S. Merwin, published by Atheneum.
Copyright 1983 by W. S. Merwin.

Have you called your parents recently?

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