{"id":16242,"date":"2015-07-29T08:45:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T12:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=16242"},"modified":"2015-07-29T08:55:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T12:55:43","slug":"the-2015-man-booker-prize-longlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2015\/07\/29\/the-2015-man-booker-prize-longlist\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2015 Man Booker Prize Longlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16244\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2015\/07\/29\/the-2015-man-booker-prize-longlist\/booker-2015\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Booker-2015.jpg?fit=110%2C140&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"110,140\" 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=\"Booker 2015\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Booker-2015.jpg?fit=110%2C140&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Booker-2015.jpg?fit=110%2C140&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16244\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Booker-2015.jpg?resize=110%2C140\" alt=\"Booker 2015\" width=\"110\" height=\"140\" \/>It&#8217;s Booker season! I highly recommend heading over to <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.myfreeforum.org\/viewforum.php?f=13\" target=\"_blank\">The Mookse and the Gripes forum<\/a>, where several Booker Prize veterans are talking about the books and the longlist. If you want to become a member of the forum so you can contribute your own thoughts (which we&#8217;d love), you&#8217;ll have to email me as I get too much spam to keep it an open forum. I&#8217;ll try to update this post throughout the day as I read reports on what people think.<\/p>\n<p>Here is this year&#8217;s longlist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Did You Ever Have a Family<\/em><\/strong>, by Bill Clegg (US)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Green Road<\/strong><\/em>, by Anne Enright (Ireland)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>A Brief History of Seven Killings<\/strong><\/em>, by Marlon James (Jamaica)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Moor&#8217;s Account<\/strong><\/em>, by Laila Lalami (US)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Satin Island<\/strong><\/em>, by Tom McCarthy (UK)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Fisherman<\/strong><\/em>, by Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Illuminations<\/strong><\/em>, by Andrew O&#8217;Hagan (UK)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Lila<\/strong><\/em>, by Marilynne Robinson (US)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Sleeping on Jupiter<\/strong><\/em>, by Anuradha Roy (India)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Year of the Runaways<\/strong><\/em>, by Sunjeev Sahota (UK)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Chimes<\/strong><\/em>, by Anna Smaill (New Zealand)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>A Spool of Blue Thread<\/strong><\/em>, by Anny Tyler (US)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>A Little Life<\/strong><\/em>, by Hanya Yanagihara (US)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2015 Man Booker Prize longlist has been announced. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2015\/07\/29\/the-2015-man-booker-prize-longlist\"><u>Read the full post<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13611,"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":[],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-16242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-prize-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/The-Man-Booker-Prize-Logo.jpg?fit=200%2C241&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-4dY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242","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=16242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16247,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242\/revisions\/16247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16242"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}