Reshuffle Your Booker Deck The Booker Prize shortlist was announced earlier today, and as usual, the oddsmakers were wrong and all of the favorites — David Mitchell; Peter Carey; Andrew O’Hagan; Barry Unsworth; and Clare Messud — didn’t make it. The six finalists are Sarah Waters (The Night Watch), Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss), Kate Grenville (The Secret River), M J Hyland (Carry Me Down), Hisham Matar (In the Country of Men), and Edward St Aubyn (Mother’s Milk). BN Eyes Israel; Keillor to Become Bookseller Thus far, Barnes & Noble has eschewed international expansion as rival Borders has become […]