{"id":5473,"date":"2011-03-02T12:54:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T16:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=5473"},"modified":"2016-06-27T18:44:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T22:44:26","slug":"2011-penfaulkner-award-for-fiction-finalists-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/03\/02\/2011-penfaulkner-award-for-fiction-finalists-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalists Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the finalists for the 2011 PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction were announced. The winner will be announced on March 15.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jennifer Egan&#8217;s <em><a title=\"Mookse Review of A Visit from the Goon Squad\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/07\/07\/jennifer-egan-a-visit-from-the-goon-squad\/\">A Visit from the Goon Squad<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jaimy Gordon&#8217;s <em>Lord of Misrule<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Eric Pucher&#8217;s <em>Model Home<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Brad Watson&#8217;s <em>Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So we have one debut novel (<em>Model Home<\/em>) and two collections of short stories (<em>The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg<\/em> and <em>Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives<\/em>) going up against two novels that have already received quite a bit of attention and critical acclaim, <em>Lord of Misrule<\/em> having won the National Book Award and <em>A Visit from the Goon Squad<\/em> being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.<\/p>\n<p>I read and really enjoyed<em>\u00a0A Visit from the Goon Squad<\/em> (though <a title=\"KFC Review of A Visit from the Goon Squad\" href=\"http:\/\/kevinfromcanada.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/14\/a-visit-from-the-good-squad-by-jennifer-egan\/\" target=\"_blank\">KevinfromCanada<\/a> and John Self really disliked it). I&#8217;ve also read several of Deborah Eisenberg&#8217;s short stories in this collection (they&#8217;re great). I&#8217;ve also got <em>Lord of Misrule<\/em> on the reading docket. However, now the question is whether to add <em>Model Home<\/em> and <em>Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives<\/em> to the reading list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PEN\/Faulkner finalists have been announced. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/03\/02\/2011-penfaulkner-award-for-fiction-finalists-announced\/\"><u>Read the full post<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12308,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[798],"tags":[],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-5473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PEN-Faulkner-logo.png?fit=224%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-1qh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473","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=5473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18958,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions\/18958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5473"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}