The National Book Awards announced their final longlist on Friday morning, for the fiction award. (Asterisked titles have not been released yet.) Independent presses fared well, with 5 titles in contention:
Elliot Ackerman, Dark at the Crossing (Knopf)
Daniel Alarcón, The King Is Always Above the People: Stories* (Riverhead)
Charmaine Craig, Miss Burma (Grove Press)
Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach* (Scribner)
Lisa Ko, The Leavers (Algonquin)
Min Jin Lee, Pachinko (Grand Central)
Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories* (Graywolf)
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, A Kind of Freedom (Counterpoint)
Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing (Scribner)
Carol Zoref, Barren Island (New Issues Poetry & Prose)