The Mercantile Library Center announced the shortlist for the 2008 John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize. The winner will be named December 1: Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)Dervishes by Beth Helms (Picador) The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti (The Dial Press)Personal Days by Ed Park (Random House)Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter by Peter Manseau (Free Press)The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (Ecco/HarperCollins)The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block (Random House) Separately, former US poet laureate Louise Glueck was given the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award for “outstanding and proven mastery in the art of […]
