{"id":6986,"date":"2012-02-22T12:17:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T16:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=6986"},"modified":"2016-07-11T18:04:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T22:04:23","slug":"2012-penfaulkner-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/02\/22\/2012-penfaulkner-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 PEN\/Faulkner Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The finalists for the 2012 PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction have been announced (<a title=\"PEN\/Faulkner Finalists\" href=\"http:\/\/www.penfaulkner.org\/2012\/02\/21\/announcing-the-finalists-for-the-2012-award-for-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). The winner will be named on March 26.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Lost Memory of Skin<\/em>, by Russell Banks<\/li>\n<li><em>The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories<\/em>, by Don DeLillo<\/li>\n<li><em>The Artist of Disappearance<\/em>, by Anita Desai<\/li>\n<li><em>We Others: New and Selected Stories<\/em>, by Steven Millhauser<\/li>\n<li><em>The Buddha in the Attic<\/em>, by Julie Otsuka<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only one I&#8217;ve read is <em>We Others<\/em>, and I fully endorse it (my review <a title=\"Mookse Review of We Others\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/10\/01\/steven-millhauser-we-others\/\">here<\/a>). I&#8217;m happy to see two of the finalists are short story collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PEN\/Faulkner finalists have been announced. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/02\/22\/2012-penfaulkner-finalists\/\"><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-6986","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-1OG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986","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=6986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19281,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions\/19281"}],"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=6986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6986"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}