As the tipsters suggested when we first published ahead of the official release, the Booker Prize longlist all but entirely spurns work by Americans for the first time since they started accepting nominations from beyond the Commonwealth in 2014. One candidate, Lucy Ellmann, is American-born, though she has lived in the UK since she was a teenager, now residing in Scotland, and is classified as Anglo-American. She’s in contention for Ducks, Newburyport, a 1,000-page monologue composed almost entirely of a single sentence. (It was published in the UK by Galley Beggar Press; the US edition is forthcoming from Biblioasis.) Up […]