The National Book Award nominees were announced on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud program. The winners will be named on November 16. Fiction Andrew Krivak, THE SOJOURN (Bellevue Literary Press) Tea Obreht, THE TIGER’S WIFE (Random House) Julie Otsuka, THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC (Knopf) Edith Pearlman, BINOCULAR VISION (Lookout Books) Jesmyn Ward, SALVAGE THE BONES (Bloomsbury) Non-Fiction Deborah Baker, THE CONVERT: A Tale of Exile and Extremism (Graywolf) Mary Gabriel, LOVE AND CAPITAL: Karl & Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution (Little, Brown) Stephen Greenblatt, THE SWERVE: How the World Became Modern (Norton) Manning Marable, MALCOLM […]