National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists

Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards have been announced with some fairly high-profile names on the list. Franzen’s Freedom, Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad, and Patti Smith’s Just Kids all make the list. I’m rooting for Patti Smith to take another prize even if I haven’t got my hands on the book yet. Actually, I’m going to order it right now.

Here is a partial list, with the complete one in the link.

Fiction:

A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Knopf)
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (FSG)
To the End of the Land by David Grossman (Knopf)
Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson (FSG)
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (Faber Faber)

Autobiography:

Half A Life by Darin Strauss (McSweeneys)
Just Kids by Patti Smith (Ecco)
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate by Kai Bird (Simon Schuster)
Autobiography of An Execution by David Dow (Hachette)
Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve)
Hiroshima in the Morning by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (Feminist Press)

Poetry:

One With Others by C.D. Wright (Copper Canyon)
Nox by Anne Carson (New Directions)
The Eternal City by Kathleen Graber (Princeton)
Lighthead by Terrance Hayes (Penguin)
The Best of It by Kay Ryan (Grove)

[via PW]

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