NBA Finalists If you haven’t already seen the lists, the National Book Award finalist were announced this morning: Fiction Mischa Berlinski, Fieldwork (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End (Little, Brown & Company) Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Jim Shepard, Like You’d Understand, Anyway (Alfred A. Knopf) Nonfiction Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I’m Dying (Alfred A. Knopf) Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Twelve/Hachette Book Group USA) Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (Hill and […]