{"id":14211,"date":"2014-09-17T11:45:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=14211"},"modified":"2014-09-17T11:45:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T15:45:56","slug":"2014-nonfiction-national-book-award-longlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2014\/09\/17\/2014-nonfiction-national-book-award-longlist\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Nonfiction National Book Award Longlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today they announced the longlist for this year\u2019s National Book Award for Nonfiction (they announced the longlist for Young People\u2019s Literature Tuesday (<a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2014\/09\/15\/2014-national-book-award-longlists\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) and for Poetry yesterday (<a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2014\/09\/16\/2014-poetry-national-book-award-longlist\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) and will announced the remaining\u00a0longlist for\u00a0Fiction\u00a0tomorrow).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Can&#8217;t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?<\/strong><\/em>, by Roz Chast<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic<\/strong><\/em>, by John Demos<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes<\/strong><\/em>, by Anand Gopal<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941 &#8211; 1942<\/strong><\/em>, by Nigel Hamilton<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution<\/strong><\/em>, by Walter Isaacson<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh<\/strong><\/em>, by John Lahr<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China<\/strong><\/em>, by Evan Osnos<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>When Paris Was Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940 &#8211; 1944<\/strong><\/em>, by Ronald C. Rosbottom<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Nature&#8217;s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic<\/strong><\/em>, by Matthew Steart<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Meaning of Human Existence<\/strong><\/em>, by Edward O. Wilson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only one I have is Lahr&#8217;s biography on Tennessee Williams, and I think it looks fantastic. Have any of you read the others? Any recommendations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Book Award longlist for Nonfiction was announced today. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2014\/09\/17\/2014-nonfiction-national-book-award-longlist\"><u>Read the full post<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14173,"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":[532],"tags":[569],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-14211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-prize-news","tag-national-book-award"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nbf_logo.jpg?fit=269%2C92&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-3Hd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14211","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=14211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14214,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14211\/revisions\/14214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14211"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}