The National Book Awards announced their nonfiction longlist Wednesday morning, with fiction to follow the following day. Half of the shortlist contains titles from Penguin Random House imprints, and Pulitzer winner for fiction Viet Thanh Nguyen appears as well. Note that the shortlist announcement date has been changed to October 13 (as the previous day is Yom Kippur). The full longlist features: Andrew J. Bacevich, America’s War for the Greater Middle East (Random House) Patricia Bell-Scott, The Firebrand and the First Lady (Knopf) Adam Cohen, Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck (Penguin Press) Arlie […]