The 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award finalists have been announced (see the official site). The winner will be announced on March 19.
- Threats, by Amelia Gray
- Kind One, by Laird Hunt
- Hold It ‘Til It Hurts, by T. Geronimo Johnson
- Watergate, by Thomas Mallon
- Everything Begins & Ends at the Kentucky Club, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
I don’t know anything about any of them. Does anyone have any recommendations from this list?
Not a clue: I knew a little about the Mallon but that’s it. They gave this to Deborah Eisenberg a couple of years ago, so that’s a high enough calibre precedent for me to be interested in all of these. Will you be having a go at any?
I doubt I’ll be having a go at any, Lee, at least not until someone says I should. To be honest, and I know this is not fair, I haven’t even looked any of these up since the announcement. I have too many projects going on and am remarkably resilient to the distractions right now.