While we were sleeping…
The National Book Critics Circle awards nominations were announced. The contenders for best fiction in 2006:
- What is the What by Dave Eggers (BGB Review coming soon)
- The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford (BGB Review coming soon – notes from the Atlanta Reading here)
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy (BGB Review by Dr J)
Read the nominees for the other categories here. Of note to the Atlanta crowd: Atlanta writer Taylor Branch is nominated for the third (and final) part of his biography of MLK, The Edge of Canaan. Part 1, won this award. I think that Branch recently read from the book at The Center for Southern Literature, but there is no evidence of that at their web site. So I may be making that up.
Awards, Books, To Checkout | Tim | 
January 24, 2007 7:52 am
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By Beth (The Atlanta One), January 25, 2007 @ 10:31 am
Gawd, I’m lame; I haven’t read any of the nominated books. I miss my youth of a few years ago when I could read and hold down a job …
By DJ Cayenne, January 25, 2007 @ 10:36 am
I’ve only read one (Richard Ford) and have another on my stack to read. Start taking the bus to work so you can read en route. It’sMarta.