The longlist for the Booker Prize was announced Wednesday morning, the first to include American authors after a widely discussed rule change late last year. Titles by four American authors — TO RISE AGAIN AT A DECENT HOUR by Joshua Ferris, WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES by Karen Joy Fowler, THE BLAZING WORLD by Siri Hustvedt, and ORFEO by Richard Powers — as well as THE DOG by Joseph O’Neill, a dual Irish/American citizen, made the Booker longlist, along with other notable forthcoming titles by David Mitchell (THE BONE CLOCKS, September), Howard Jacobson (J, September in the UK, March […]