Publishers Lunch
A week of National
Book Award longlists ends with the fiction list of ten nominees, including
recent Oprah Book Club selection Colson Whitehead -- the best-known author on
the list as well -- and last year's Young People's Literature winner Jacqueline
Woodson. Three of the titles are published by Norton; the rest are all from
imprints at the largest houses. The full list features:
Chris Bachelder, The
Throwback Special (Norton)
Garth Greenwell, What
Belongs to You (FSG)
Adam Haslett, Imagine
Me Gone (Little, Brown)
Paulette Jiles, News
of the World (William Morrow)
Karan Mahajan, The
Association of Small Bombs (Viking)
Elizabeth McKenzie, The
Portable Veblen (Penguin Press)
Lydia Millet, Sweet
Lamb of Heaven (Norton)
Brad Watson, Miss
Jane (Norton)
Colson Whitehead, The
Underground Railroad (Doubleday)
Jacqueline Woodson, Another
Brooklyn (Amistad)
In other awards news, the 12 new recipients of National Humanities Medals, to be
presented at the White House later this month, include
authors: Rudolfo Anaya,
Ron Chernow,
Louise Gluck,
James McBride,
Louis Menand,
Elaine Pagels,
Abraham Verghese,
and Isabel Wilkerson.
The Dayton Literary
Peace Prize announced
the finalists for their fiction and nonfiction awards
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