National Book Awards, LIVE
The National Book Awards will be Webcast live tomorrow evening, 8 p.m., ET. Below are the finalists, with links to consumer reviews, where available:
Fiction
Andrew Krivak, The Sojourn, (Bellevue Literary Press); review links
Téa Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife, (Random House) – reviewed the most widely of all the finalists – links and excerpts here
Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic, (Knopf/ Random House) – review links
Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision, (Lookout Books/Department of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington) – review links
Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, (Bloomsbury USA) – review links
Nonfiction
Deborah Baker, The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism, (Graywolf Press) – review links
Mary Gabriel, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, (Little, Brown/Hachette) – review links
Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, (Norton) – review links
Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, (Viking/Penguin) – review links
Lauren Redniss, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, (It Books/HarperCollins) – review links
Young People’s Literature
Franny Billingsley, Chime, (Dial/Penguin)
Debby Dahl Edwardson, My Name Is Not Easy, (Marshall Cavendish)
Thanhha Lai, Inside Out and Back Again, (Harper)
Albert Marrin, Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy, (Knopf/Random House Children’s Books)
Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now, (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) – NYT Book Review
Poetry
Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split, (TriQuarterly/Northwestern University Press) – Interview
Yusef Komunyakaa, The Chameleon Couch, (FSG/Macmillan)
Carl Phillips, Double Shadow, (FSG/Macmillan) – Chicago Tribune review
Adrienne Rich, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010, (Norton) – San Francisco Chronicle review
Bruce Smith, Devotions, (University of Chicago Press) – review, NYT BR