You heard it here first: Vote Now for the Best of the National Book Awards Fiction

[rich]

glad GR is on the list but wonder choice of collection of short
stories--would rather vote for a stand alone work, no?
ellison's gonna win
(one wonders if that massive unfinished novel of which Juneteenth is
an excerpt will ever be published?)

rich

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