NBA Finalists Announced

With apologies to The Logo, Jerry West and pro basketball, I just couldn’t think of another image to accompany this post…

The 2005 National Book Award Finalists were announced and it’s an impressive list. I must admit that I’m pulling for William Vollman, but check out all the folks and see if your favorite made the cut.

Fiction
—The March by E.L. Doctorow, published by Random House
—Veronica by Mary Gaitskill, published by Pantheon
—Trance by Christopher Sorrentino, published by FSG
—Holy Skirts by Rene Steinke, published by William Morrow
—Europe Central by William T. Vollman, published by Viking

Nonfiction
—Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion by Alan Burdick, published by FSG
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius by Leo Damrosch, published by Houghton Mifflin
—The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, published by Knopf
—102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn, published by Times Books
—Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free and Empire’s Slaves by Adam Hochschild, published by Houghton Mifflin

Poetry
—Where Shall I Wander by John Ashberry, published by Ecco
—Star Dust by Frank Bidart, published by FSG
—Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965-2005 by Brendan Galvin, published by Louisiana State University Press
—Migration: New and Selected Poems by W.S. Merwin, published by Copper Canyon Press
—The Moment’s Equation by Vern Rutsala, published by Ashland Poetry Press

Young People’s Literature
—The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall, published by Knopf
—Where I Want to Be by Adele Griffin, published by Putnam
—Inexcusable by Chris Lynch, published by Atheneum
—Autobiography of My Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers, published by HarperTempest
—Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles, published by Harcourt