{"id":16532,"date":"2015-09-15T11:51:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T15:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=16532"},"modified":"2015-09-15T11:51:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T15:51:54","slug":"the-2015-man-booker-prize-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2015\/09\/15\/the-2015-man-booker-prize-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2015 Man Booker Prize Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16534\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2015\/09\/15\/the-2015-man-booker-prize-shortlist\/2015-booker-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-Booker.png?fit=778%2C196&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"778,196\" 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=\"2015-Booker\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-Booker.png?fit=300%2C76&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-Booker.png?fit=778%2C196&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16534 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-Booker.png?resize=778%2C196\" alt=\"\" width=\"778\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-Booker.png?resize=300%2C76&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-Booker.png?fit=778%2C196&amp;ssl=1 778w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/>This morning, the shortlist for this year&#8217;s Man Booker Prize was revealed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>A Spool of Blue Thread<\/em><\/strong>, by Anne Tyler<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Fisherman<\/em><\/strong>, by Chigozie Obioma<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>A Little Life<\/em><\/strong>, by Hanya Yanagihara<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>A Brief History of Seven Killings<\/em><\/strong>, by Marlon James<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Year of the Runaways<\/em><\/strong>, by Sunjeev Sahota<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Satin Island<\/em><\/strong>, by Tom McCarthy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read only two of the six, <em>Satin Island<\/em> and <em>A Spool of Blue Thread<\/em>, and I wish neither the prize. From the longlist, I&#8217;d also read Marilynne Robinson&#8217;s <em>Lila<\/em> (which was the favorite on the forum) and Andrew O&#8217;Hagan&#8217;s <em>The Illuminations<\/em>. I really didn&#8217;t like <em>The Illuminations<\/em>, but I loved and continue to love more and more <em>Lila<\/em>. Alas . . .<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts on the shortlist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, the shortlist for this year&#8217;s Man Booker Prize was revealed. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2015\/09\/15\/the-2015-man-booker-prize-shortlist\"><u>Read the full post<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16244,"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-16532","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\/2015\/07\/Booker-2015.jpg?fit=110%2C140&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-4iE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16532","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=16532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16535,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16532\/revisions\/16535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16532"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}