{"id":10127,"date":"2013-09-19T12:52:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T16:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=10127"},"modified":"2013-09-19T12:52:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T16:52:33","slug":"2013-national-book-award-longlists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2013\/09\/19\/2013-national-book-award-longlists\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 National Book Award Longlists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first year the National Book Award is giving us a longlist of titles for each category. This past week, they&#8217;ve been announcing one category per day, culminating in today&#8217;s fiction longlist.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Fiction:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Pacific<\/em><\/strong>, by Tom Drury<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The End of the Point<\/em><\/strong>, by Elizabeth Graver<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Flamethrowers<\/em><\/strong>, by Rachel Kushner<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Lowland<\/em><\/strong>, by Jhumpa Lahiri<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>A Constellation of Vital Phenomena<\/em><\/strong>, by Anthony Marra<em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Good Lord Bird<\/em><\/strong>, by James McBride<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Someone<\/em><\/strong>, by Alice McDermott<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Bleeding Edge<\/em><\/strong>, by Thomas Pynchon<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Tenth of December<\/em><\/strong>, by George Saunders<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Fools<\/em><\/strong>, by Joan Silber<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Nonfiction:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Finding Florida: The True Story of the Sunshine State<\/em><\/strong>, by T.D. Allman<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami<\/em><\/strong>, by Gretel Ehrlich<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA<\/strong><\/em>, by Scott C. Johnson<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin<\/em><\/strong>, by Jill Lepore<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Hitler&#8217;s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields<\/strong><\/em>, by Wendy Lower<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865<\/em><\/strong>, by James Oakes<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America<\/em><\/strong>, by George Packer<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Internal Enemy: Slavery and the War in Virginia, 1772-1832<\/em><\/strong>, by Alan Taylor<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Duke: A Life of Duke Elington<\/em><\/strong>, by Terry Teachout<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, &amp; the Prison of Belief<\/em><\/strong>, by Lawrence Wright<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Poetry:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Metaphysical Dog<\/strong><\/em>, by Frank Bidart<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Bury My Clothes<\/strong><\/em>, by Roger Bonair-Agard<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Stay, Illusion<\/strong><\/em>, by Lucie Brock-Broido<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>So Recently Rent a World, New and Selected Poems: 1968-2012<\/strong><\/em>, by Andrei Codrescu<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Seasonal Works with Letters on a Fire<\/strong><\/em>, by Brenda Hillman<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Big Smoke<\/strong><\/em>, by Adrian Matejka<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>American Amnesiac<\/strong><\/em>, by Diane Raptosh<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Black Aperture<\/strong><\/em>, by Matt Rasmussen<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Transfer of Qualities<\/strong><\/em>, by Martha Ronk<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Incarnadine: Poems<\/strong><\/em>, by Mary Szybist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Young People&#8217;s Literature:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp<\/em><\/strong>, by Kathi Appelt<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures<\/strong><\/em>, by Kate DiCamillo<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>A Tangle of Knots<\/strong><\/em>, by Lisa Graff<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Summer Prince<\/strong><\/em>, by Alaya Dawn Johnson<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Thing About Luck<\/strong><\/em>, by Cynthia Kadohata<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Two Boys Kissing<\/strong><\/em>, by\u00a0David Levithan<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Far, Far Away<\/strong><\/em>, by\u00a0Tom McNeal<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Picture Me Gone<\/strong><\/em>, by Meg Rosoff<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Real Boy<\/strong><\/em>, by Anne Ursu<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Boxers &amp; Saints<\/strong><\/em>, by Gene Luen Yang<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first year the National Book Award is giving us a longlist of titles for each category. This past week, they&#8217;ve been announcing one category per day, culminating in today&#8217;s fiction longlist. Fiction: Pacific, by Tom Drury The End of the Point, by Elizabeth Graver The Flamethrowers, by Rachel Kushner The Lowland, by &#8230; <a title=\"2013 National Book Award Longlists\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2013\/09\/19\/2013-national-book-award-longlists\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 2013 National Book Award Longlists\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-2Dl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10128,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10127\/revisions\/10128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10127"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}