{"id":8442,"date":"2013-01-14T14:19:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T18:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=8442"},"modified":"2013-01-14T14:51:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T18:51:07","slug":"nbcc-award-finalists-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2013\/01\/14\/nbcc-award-finalists-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"NBCC Award Finalists Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the National Book Critics Circle announced its finalists for the 2012 publishing year (click <a href=\"http:\/\/bookcritics.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>for their release). The winners will be announced on February 28:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>HHhH<\/strong><\/em>, by Laurent Binet, tr. from the French by Sam Taylor<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Billy Lynn&#8217;s Long Halftime Walk<\/strong><\/em>, by Ben Fountain<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Orphan Master&#8217;s Son<\/strong><\/em>, by Adam Johnson<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Magnificence<\/strong><\/em>, by Lydia Millet<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>NW<\/strong><\/em>, by Zadie Smith<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Nonfiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Behind the Beautiful<\/strong><strong> Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity<\/strong><\/em>, by Katherine Boo<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Private Empires: ExxonMobil and American<\/strong> <strong>Power<\/strong><\/em>, by Steve Coll<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective<\/strong><strong> Story<\/strong><\/em>, by Jim Holt<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Spilover: Animal Infections and the Next Human<\/strong><strong> Pandemic<\/strong><\/em>, by David Quammen<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for<\/strong><strong> Identity<\/strong><\/em>, by Andrew Solomon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations<\/strong><\/em>, by David Ferry<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths<\/strong><\/em>, by Lucia Perillo<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Fragile Acts<\/strong><\/em>, by Allan Peterson<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Landscape, or A Guide for Boys<\/strong><\/em>, by D.A. Powell<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Olives<\/strong><\/em>, by A.E. Stallings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Autobiography<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>The Distance Between Us<\/strong><\/em>, by Reyna Grande<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>My Poets<\/strong><\/em>, by Maureen N. McLane<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and\u00a0a Lost Middle East<\/strong><\/em>, by Anthony Shadid<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Swimming Studies<\/strong><\/em>, by Leanne Shapton<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>In the House of the Interpreter<\/strong><\/em>, by Ng\u00fcg\u00ef wa Thiong&#8217;o<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson<\/strong>, by Robert A. Caro<\/li>\n<li><strong>All We Know: Three Lives<\/strong>, by Lisa Cohen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece<\/strong>, by Michael Gorra<\/li>\n<li><strong>Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography<\/strong>, by Lisa Jarnot<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo<\/strong>, by Tom Reiss<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Criticism<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Reinventing Bach<\/strong><\/em>, by Paul Elie<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture<\/strong><\/em>, by Daneil Mendelsohn<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Madness, Rack, and Honey<\/strong><\/em>, by Mary Ruefle<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights<\/strong><\/em>, by Marina Warner<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness<\/strong><\/em>, by Kevin Young<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the National Book Critics Circle announced its finalists for the 2012 publishing year (click here for their release). The winners will be announced on February 28: Fiction HHhH, by Laurent Binet, tr. from the French by Sam Taylor Billy Lynn&#8217;s Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain The Orphan Master&#8217;s Son, by Adam Johnson Magnificence,  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-2ca","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442","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=8442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8446,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442\/revisions\/8446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8442"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}