{"id":15349,"date":"2015-03-12T19:27:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T23:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=15349"},"modified":"2015-03-12T19:30:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T23:30:59","slug":"2015-national-book-critics-circle-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2015\/03\/12\/2015-national-book-critics-circle-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15350\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2015\/03\/12\/2015-national-book-critics-circle-award-winners\/nbcclogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nbcclogo.png?fit=506%2C136&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"506,136\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"nbcclogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nbcclogo.png?fit=300%2C81&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nbcclogo.png?fit=506%2C136&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15350\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nbcclogo.png?resize=506%2C136\" alt=\"nbcclogo\" width=\"506\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nbcclogo.png?resize=300%2C81&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nbcclogo.png?fit=506%2C136&amp;ssl=1 506w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve announced this year&#8217;s winners of the National Book Critics Circle Award. The winners below in red; the other finalists in light gray.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Lila<\/strong><\/em>, by Marilynne Robinson<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> (my review <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2015\/02\/23\/marilynne-robinson-lila\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>An Unnecessary Woman<\/strong><\/em>, by Rabih Alameddine<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>A Brief History of Seven Killings<\/strong><\/em>, by Marlon James<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>Euphoria<\/strong><\/em>, by Lily King<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>On Such a Full Sea<\/strong><\/em>, by Chang-rae Lee<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Citizen: An American Lyric<\/strong><\/em>, by Claudia Rankine<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>Prelude to Bruise<\/strong><\/em>, by Saeed Jones<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon<\/strong><\/em>, by Willie Perdomo<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>Once in the West<\/strong><\/em>, by Christian Wiman<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>Abide<\/strong><\/em>, by Jake Adam York<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Nonfiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation<\/strong><\/em>, by David Brion Davis<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book<\/strong><\/em>, by Peter Finn and Petra Couvee<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History<\/strong><\/em>, by Elizabeth Kolbert<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>Capital and the Twenty-First Century<\/strong><\/em>, by Thomas Piketty (translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mind, and the Miracle That Set Them Free<\/strong><\/em>, by Hector Tobar<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Autobiography<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Can\u2019t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?<\/strong><\/em>, by Roz Chast<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait<\/strong><\/em>, by Blake Bailey<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>The Other Side<\/strong><\/em>, by Lacy M. Johnson<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>Little Failure<\/strong><\/em>, by Gary Shteyngart<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>There Was and There Was Not<\/strong><\/em>, by Meline Toumani<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh<\/strong><\/em>, by John Lahr<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>William Wells Brown: An African American Life<\/strong><\/em>, by Ezra Greenspan<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson<\/strong><\/em>, by S.C. Gwynne<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>\u201cLiterchoor Is My Beat\u201d: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions<\/strong><\/em>, Ian S. MacNiven<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography<\/strong><\/em>, by Miriam Pawel<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Criticism<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>The Essential Ellen Willis<\/strong><\/em>, by Ellen Willis<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>On Immunity: An Inoculation<\/strong><\/em>, by Eula Biss<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty<\/strong><\/em>, by Vikram Chandra<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>Citizen: An American Lyric<\/strong><\/em>, by Claudia Rankine<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><strong>What Would Lynne Tillman Do?<\/strong><\/em>, by Lynne Tillman<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 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