Fiction finalists were; Rachel Kushner for “The Flamethrowers” (my favorite reading); Jhumpa Lahiri for “The Lowland”; James McBride for “The Good Lord Bird” (Winner); Thomas Pynchon for “Bleeding Edge”; and George Saunders for “Tenth of December”.
Nonfiction finalists were; Jill Lepore for “Book of Ages”; Wendy Lower for “Hitler’s Furies”; George Packer for “The Unwinding” (Winner); Alan Taylor for “The Internal Enemy” (my favorite reading); and Lawrence Wright for “Going Clear”.
Young People’s Literature finalistswere; Kathi Appelt for “The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp”; Cynthia Kadohata for “The Thing About Luck” (Winner); Tom McNeal for “Far Far Away”; Meg Rosoff for “Picture Me Gone”; and Gene Luen Yang for “Boxers & Saints” (my favorite reading).
Poetry finalists were; are Frank Bidart for “Metaphysical Dog” (my favorite reading); Lucie Brock-Broido for “Stay, Illusion”; Adrian Matejka for “The Big Smoke”; Matt Rasmussen for “Black Aperture”; and Mary Szybist for “Incarnadine” (Winner).
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