National Book Awards - fiction long list

[Becky Lindroos]

I see Darnielle book is available on Audible -  the trouble is that the author is reading it.  In my fairly extensive experience with audio books this is not usually a good idea - authors are not readers.  And from the sample I think this is not one of the exceptions,  although I can see some promise.  I think if you are a Darnielle fan you might get a text version.  Fwiw, it was just released today so there are no reviews. 

Bekah
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On Sep 18, 2014, at 9:19 AM, Tyler Wilson <tbsqrd at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Yes; so excited for Darnielle! His book is top of my to-read list. Been trying to score a galley for months, but no dice. 
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> As for the others:  I haven't read any with the exception of a partial read of Antopol's "The UnAmericans". Anyone else here read this? I hate to be a dick about the work of someone who is likely on cloud nine right now, but I thought her writing was just horrible. Derivative, cliched... And in a poorer fashion than most. It contains like five stories, I believe. I started three of them but couldn't finish any.
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> I've never met another that has read this book. Can anyone offer a different perspective? I was shocked this made the list.
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> BTW, Ben Lerner's 10:04 is fantastic. I've only begun to wade in, but the writing, if not the subject matter, is superb. 
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> On Sep 18, 2014, at 9:07 AM, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> And John Darnielle! (Of whom I am a big fan)
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>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:
>> The long list for National Book Awards fiction long was announced today 
>> http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/blogs/275569981.html
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>> Here goes:
>> Rabih Alameddine, ‘An Unnecessary Woman,’Grove Press
>> Molly Antopol, ‘The UnAmericans,’ W.W. Norton<icon1.png>& Company (short stories)
>> John Darnielle, ‘Wolf in White Van,’ Farrar, Straus and Giroux (debut novel)
>> Anthony Doerr, ‘All the Light We Cannot See,’ Scribner​
>> Phil Klay, ‘Redeployment,’ The Penguin Press
>> Emily St. John Mandel, ‘Station Eleven,’ Alfred A. Knopf
>> Elizabeth McCracken, ‘Thunderstruck & Other Stories,’ The Dial Press
>> Richard Powers, ‘Orfeo,’ W.W. Norton & Company<icon1.png>
>> Marilynne Robinson, ‘Lila,’ Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Strib review runs in October)
>> Jane Smiley, ‘Some Luck,’ Alfred A. Knopf (Strib review runs in October)
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>> I am so excited to see Powers and Smiley on there.   :-)    (Although Smiley’s book is not likely to live up to her magnum opus, The Greenlanders.) 
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>> Bekah
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