NBCC Winners At the NBCC awards last night, “a solid majority of nominees showed up, including such high-profile writers as novelists Richard Ford and Dave Eggers and historian Taylor Branch” the AP reports, but most of the favorites didn’t win: Fiction: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss Nonfiction: Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution Biography: Julie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr. Autobiography: Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million Poetry: Troy Jollimore, Tom Thomson in Purgatory Criticism: Lawrence Weschler, Everything That Rises AP The Devil Needs a Haircut? Radar notices that an […]