NBA finalists

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from the PW Daily email newsletter: 


NBA Finalists Announced at City Lights
by Bridget Kinsella 
Sir Francis Drake may have missed the Golden Gate in
the fog, Lawrence Ferlinghetti said, but having the
National Book Awards finalists announced for the first
time on the West Coast at City Lights Books “was like
we’ve been discovered at last.”
Before announcing the finalists, City Lights’ Paul
Yamasaki said the day was even more historic because,
“I’ve never seen so many writers congregated at this
time of the morning without staying up all night the
night before.” Then he announced the finalists.

In fiction the nominees are Mark Z. Danielewski, Only
Revolutions (Pantheon); Ken Kalfus, A Disorder
Peculiar to the Country (Ecco/HarperCollins); Richard
Powers, The Echo Maker (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); Dana
Spiotta, Eat the Document (Scribner/Simon & Schuster);
and Jess Walter, The Zero (Judith Regan
Books/HarperCollins).

The nonfiction nominess are Taylor Branch, At Canaan's
Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 (Simon &
Schuster); Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the
Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Alfred A.
Knopf); Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold
Story of Those Who Survived the Great

American Dust Bowl (Houghton Mifflin); Peter Hessler,
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and
Present (HarperCollins); and Lawrence Wright, The
Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Alfred
A. Knopf).

The poetry selections are Louise Glück, Averno
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux); H.L. Hix, Chromatic
(Etruscan Press); Ben Lerner, Angle of Yaw (Copper
Canyon Press); Nathaniel Mackey, Splay Anthem (New
Directions); and James McMichael, Capacity (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux).

The nominess in young people's literature are M.T.
Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing,
Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1:The Pox Party
(Candlewick Press); Martine Leavitt, Keturah and Lord
Death (Front Street Books/Boyds Mills Press); Patricia
McCormick, Sold (Hyperion Books for Children); Nancy
Werlin, The Rules of Survival (Dial/Penguin); and Gene
Luen Yang, American Born Chinese (First
Second/Holtzbrinck).

About 60 people from the Bay Area’s literary and
publishing community turned out at City Lights for the
announcement—including 45 writers. Faces in the crowd
included: Avalon CEO Charlie Winton, David Ulin from
the Los Angeles Times, Oscar Villalon of the San
Francisco Chronicle and authors Anne Lamott, Barry
Gifford, Ishmel Reed, Tess Uriza Hothle and Peter
Plate.

One finalist, Jess Walter, was able to attend the
event because he just happened to be on book tour in
the area. He lives in Spokane. “At first I thought it
was one of my practical joker friends,” Walter told PW
Daily, referring to when he got the call the day
before from NBA executive director Harold Augenbraum.
"It’s a great thrill and more than a little surprise.
You finish a novel and you feel like it’s come
together, but to have other writers see it. That’s
remarkable, really."

Winners will be announced November 15 at an awards
dinner in New York.

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