{"id":1530,"date":"2014-02-20T11:29:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T16:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2014-03-01T15:25:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T20:25:52","slug":"see-all-those-people-down-there-theyre-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1530","title":{"rendered":"See All Those People Down There? They\u2019re Reading!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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50 finalists for the L.A. Times<\/i>\u2019s annual Book Prizes<\/a> were announced recently. Bestselling young adult novelist John Green (whose book The Fault in Our Stars<\/i> I actually read) is slated to receive the Innovators Award for his \u201cdynamic use of online media to entertain and engage.\u201d Susan Straight, will add a lifetime achievement award to her a nice list of other prizes: the Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement, National Book Award finalists (for Highwire Moon<\/i>), and the Lannan Literary Prize.<\/p>\n

Finalists were named in 10 categories: biography, current interest, fiction, graphic novel\/comics, history, mystery\/thriller, poetry, science and technology, first fiction, and young adult literature. See the full list at the link above. I\u2019ve reproduced four of the categories below. Haven\u2019t read a one, but eager to read the highlighted ones! Winners will be announced in April.<\/p>\n

Current Interest<\/i> <\/strong>
\nSheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital<\/i><\/b><\/span>, Crown
\nDavid Finkel, Thank You for Your Service<\/i><\/b><\/span>, Sarah Crichton Books\/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
\nCharlie LeDuff, Detroit: An American Autopsy<\/i><\/b><\/span>, The Penguin Press
\nBarry Siegel, Manifest Injustice: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom<\/i><\/b><\/span>, Henry Holt & Co.
\nLawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Knopf<\/p>\n

Fiction<\/i> <\/i><\/strong>
\nPercival Everett, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell<\/i>, Graywolf Press
\nClaire Messud, The Woman Upstairs<\/i>, Knopf
\nRuth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being<\/i>, Viking
\nSusan Steinberg, Spectacle: Stories<\/i>, Graywolf Press
\nDaniel Woodrell, The Maid’s Version: A Novel<\/i>, Little, Brown & Co.<\/p>\n

History<\/i><\/strong>
\nRichard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman, FDR and the Jews<\/i><\/b>, Belknap Press of Harvard University
\nChristopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914<\/i><\/b>, HarperCollins
\nGlenn Frankel, The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend<\/i>, Bloomsbury USA
\nDoris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism<\/i>, Simon & Schuster
\nAlan Taylor, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832<\/i>, W. W. Norton & Co.<\/p>\n

Mystery\/Thriller<\/i><\/strong>
\nRichard Crompton, Hour of the Red God<\/i>, Sarah Crichton Books\/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
\nRobert Galbraith, The Cuckoo’s Calling<\/i><\/b><\/span>, Mulholland Books\/Little, Brown & Co.
\nJohn Grisham, Sycamore Row<\/i>, Doubleday Books
\nGene Kerrigan, The Rage<\/i><\/b>, Europa Editions
\nFerdinand von Schirach, The Collini Case<\/i>, Viking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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