Last year the books that had sold the best won the two main National Book Awards but this year provide pointed contrast, with the novel that had sold the least paired with the nonfiction book that sold the most. Jaimy Gordon’s just-released LORD OF MISRULE from McPherson, with three-digit print sales in its first two weeks on the market, prevailed in the fiction category. Meanwhile, Patti Smith’s award-winning nonfiction title JUST KIDS had already outsold the rest of the nonfiction field combined. Paperback rights to Gordon’s book were sold to Vintage earlier this month (with her next book sold separately […]
