Comments on: National Book Award Finalists http://www.edrants.com/national-book-award-finalists/ a cultural website in ever-shifting standing Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Law of Averages : Edward Champion’s Filthy Habits http://www.edrants.com/national-book-award-finalists/comment-page-1/#comment-240709 Law of Averages : Edward Champion’s Filthy Habits Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:47:11 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=6857#comment-240709 [...] in the same context as Philip Roth’s American Pastoral moment and Richard Russo’s “wrong end of the telescope” speech from Bridge of Sighs: But sometimes it happens that we enter a public place and find that, for [...] [...] in the same context as Philip Roth’s American Pastoral moment and Richard Russo’s “wrong end of the telescope” speech from Bridge of Sighs: But sometimes it happens that we enter a public place and find that, for [...]

]]> By: charles b http://www.edrants.com/national-book-award-finalists/comment-page-1/#comment-237820 charles b Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:19:04 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=6857#comment-237820 Any publisher can submit two books in each category for the National Book Awards. There's a fee attached to each book. Every single submission is read by the judging panel. When Rick Moody was the fiction judge, one or two small press fictions made it to the finals. And, actually, this year's bunch of fiction finalists is really strong, every one of them deserving a nomination. It will be an upset if anybody but Johnson wins. But having read Tree Of Smoke, there's a reason for that. Any publisher can submit two books in each category for the National Book Awards. There’s a fee attached to each book. Every single submission is read by the judging panel. When Rick Moody was the fiction judge, one or two small press fictions made it to the finals.

And, actually, this year’s bunch of fiction finalists is really strong, every one of them deserving a nomination. It will be an upset if anybody but Johnson wins. But having read Tree Of Smoke, there’s a reason for that.

]]> By: Daniel http://www.edrants.com/national-book-award-finalists/comment-page-1/#comment-237819 Daniel Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:06:53 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=6857#comment-237819 Do small presses get more or less ignored for these things? I haven't been following literary awards much. Do small presses get more or less ignored for these things? I haven’t been following literary awards much.

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