The National Book Critic's Circle Awards are upon us and joining us to discuss the nominees are:
Michele Filgate is events coordinator at Community Bookstore in Brooklyn, NY. She’s also a writer and critic.
Eric Banks is a board member and past president of the NBCC. He’s the former editor of Bookforum and Artforum and the director of the NY Institute for the Humanities.
See below for the complete list of nominees that Michele and Eric discussed during the segment.
Biography
- Scott Anderson - Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East(Doubleday)
- Leo Damrosch - Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World (Yale UniversityPress)
- John Eliot Gardiner - Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven (Knopf)
- Linda Leavell - Holding on Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Mark Thompson - Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis (Cornell University Press)
Criticism
- Hilton Als - White Girls (McSweeney’s)
- Mary Beard - Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations (Liveright)
- Jonathan Franzen - The Kraus Project: Essays By Karl Kraus, Translated and Annotated By Jonathan Franzen with Paul Reiter and Daniel Kehlmann (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Janet Malcolm - Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Franco Moretti - Distant Reading (Verso)
Fiction
- Chimamanda Ngozi aDichie - Americanah (Knopf)
- Alice McDermott - Someone (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Javier Marias - The Infatuations (Knopf)
- Ruth Ozeki - A Tale for the Time Being (Viking)
- Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch(Little, Brown)
Nonfiction
- Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy - Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice (Norton)
- Sherri Fink - Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Crown)
- David Finkel - Thank You for Your Service (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- George Packer - The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Lawrence Wright - Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief (Knopf)
