Barnes & Noble announced the nominees for its annual Discover Great New Writers Awards: Fiction Zachary Lazar, Sway (Little, Brown) Gin Phillips, The Well and the Mine (Hawthorne Books) Benjamin Taylor, The Book of Getting Even (Steerforth Press) Nonfiction David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey through His Son’s Addiction (Houghton Mifflin) Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World (Twelve) Nia Wyn, Blue Sky July: A Mother’s Story of Hope and Healing (Dutton) The winners will be announced on March 4, at a private awards ceremony.
