Yesterday, the 2013 winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction was announced (click here for their announcement).
- Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Finalists were:
- Threats, by Amelia Gray
- Kind One, by Laird Hunt
- Hold It ‘Till It Hurts, by T. Geronimo Johnson
- Watergate, by Thomas Mallon
As a writer I’m happy to see that one of the finalists is a political novel. Letting the outside world in improves both places.