They announced the winners of the 2013 (American) National Book Awards yesterday, with James McBride taking the fiction prize, for The Good Lord Bird (get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk).
Not a one of the longlisted fiction (or non) titles made it to my desk (not even the Pynchon, yet, sigh) -- yes, I'm completely at sea as far as the current American scene goes .....
Not a one of the longlisted fiction (or non) titles made it to my desk (not even the Pynchon, yet, sigh) -- yes, I'm completely at sea as far as the current American scene goes .....