{"id":7594,"date":"2012-07-25T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=7594"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:25:13","slug":"2012-booker-longlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/07\/25\/2012-booker-longlist\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Booker Longlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;ve announced the 2012 Booker longlist today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Yips<\/em>, by Nicola Barker<\/li>\n<li><em>The Teleportation Accident<\/em>, by Ned Beauman<\/li>\n<li><em>Philida<\/em>, by Andr\u00e9 Brink<\/li>\n<li><em>Skios<\/em>, by Michael Frayn<\/li>\n<li><em>The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry<\/em>, by Rachel Joyce<\/li>\n<li><em>Swimming Home<\/em>, by Deborah Levy<\/li>\n<li><em>Bring Up the Bodies<\/em>, by Hilary Mantel<\/li>\n<li><em>The Lighthouse<\/em>, by Alison Moore<\/li>\n<li><em>Umbrella<\/em>, by Will Self<\/li>\n<li><em>Narcopolis<\/em>, by Jeet Thayil<\/li>\n<li><em>Communion Town<\/em>, by Sam Thompson<\/li>\n<li><em>The Garden of Evening Mists<\/em>, by Tan Twan Eng<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, I was surprised and upset (as were many) that when the Man Booker revamped its homepage they discontinued the forum. I met many of my literary friends there, and it has been a lively place.<\/p>\n<p>As luck would have it, I have recently been putting together a forum dedicated to my favorite publishers and to short stories. I thought, why not add in literary prizes as well. So we did, and several familiar faces from the old Booker forum have made there way there already.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to join us discussing all things Booker related there, <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.myfreeforum.org\">http:\/\/mookseandgripes.myfreeforum.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2012 Man Booker Prize Longlist has been announced. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/07\/25\/2012-booker-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":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-7594","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\/07\/The-Man-Booker-Prize-Logo.jpg?fit=200%2C241&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-1Yu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594","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=7594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19463,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594\/revisions\/19463"}],"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=7594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7594"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}