Publishers Lunch
The last of the four NBA longlists, for
fiction, was announced Thursday morning. Evenly divided between men and women,
it includes one former NBA winner (Alice McDermott) and a few previous
nominees. There is only one debut novelist (Anthony Marra), two story
collections (Saunders and Silber), and most of the nominees come from four big
houses.
As people are discussing the newly announced changes in Booker
candidates for 2014, under the existing rules Jhumpa Lahiri is a contender for
both prizes:
Pacific,
Tom Drury (Grove)
The End of the Point, Elizabeth Graver (Harper)
The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner (Scribner)
The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf)
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra (Hogarth)
The Good Lord Bird, James McBride (Riverhead)
Someone, Alice McDermott (FSG)
Bleeding Edge, Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press)
Tenth of December, George Saunders (Random House)
Fools, Joan Silber (Norton)
The End of the Point, Elizabeth Graver (Harper)
The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner (Scribner)
The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf)
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra (Hogarth)
The Good Lord Bird, James McBride (Riverhead)
Someone, Alice McDermott (FSG)
Bleeding Edge, Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press)
Tenth of December, George Saunders (Random House)
Fools, Joan Silber (Norton)
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