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