Get to Know the Finalists for the National Book Award for Fiction
If you're not going to read all of them, you might as well read about them. Let the speculation begin!
The finalists for this year’s National Book Awards were announced earlier this week, and let’s be real, it’s the fiction category that gets most of the publishing world’s attention. This crop of finalists tends to the literary-and-lesser-known end of things—only one had generated substantial buzz before being nominated—and since I don’t have time (or, frankly, interest) to read all of them before the winner is announced on November 15th, I thought I’d do the next best thing: read about them.
Come along for a journey through my browser history, and let’s cook up some half-baked theories about who will go home with the medal.
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