{"id":10279,"date":"2013-10-16T15:16:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T19:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=10279"},"modified":"2013-10-23T22:11:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T02:11:34","slug":"2013-national-book-award-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2013\/10\/16\/2013-national-book-award-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 National Book Award Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today they announced the five finalists for each category of the National Book Awards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fiction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\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>The Good Lord Bird<\/em><\/strong>, by James McBride<\/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<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Nonfiction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin<\/em><\/strong>, by Jill Lepore<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Hitler&#8217;s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields<\/em><\/strong>, by Wendy Lower<\/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 War in Virginia<\/em><\/strong>, by Alan Taylor<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, &amp; the Prison of Belief<\/em><\/strong>, by Lawrence Wright<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Poetry:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Metaphysical Dog<\/em><\/strong>, by Frank Bidart<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Stay, Illusion<\/em><\/strong>, by Lucie Brock-Broido<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Big Smoke<\/em><\/strong>, by Adrian Matejka<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Black Aperture<\/em><\/strong>, by Matt Rasmussen<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Incarnadine: Poems<\/em><\/strong>, by Martha Ronk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Young People&#8217;s Literature:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp<\/em><\/strong>, by Kathi Appelt<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Think About Luck<\/em><\/strong>, by Cynthia Kadohata<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Far Far Away<\/em><\/strong>, by Tom McNeal<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Picture Me Gone<\/em><\/strong>, by Meg Rosoff<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Boxers &amp; Saints<\/em><\/strong>, by Gene Luen Yang<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today they announced the five finalists for each category of the National Book Awards. 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