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Longlist is out.
Has anyone read any of these? The blurbs seem pretty unengaging and I haven't seen coverage of any of these previously.
Fiction
Chris Bachelder, The Throwback Special (W. W. Norton & Company)
Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to You (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan)
Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group)
Paulette Jiles, News of the World (William Morrow/HarperCollinsPublishers)
Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Viking Books/Penguin Random House)
Elizabeth McKenzie, The Portable Veblen (Penguin Press/Penguin Random House)
Lydia Millet, Sweet Lamb of Heaven (W. W. Norton & Company)
Brad Watson, Miss Jane (W. W. Norton & Company)
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (Doubleday/Penguin Random House)
Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn (Amistad/HarperCollinsPublishers)
Non-Fiction:
Andrew J. Bacevich, America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
(Random House/Penguin Random House)
Patricia Bell-Scott, The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice (Alfred A. Knopf /Penguin Random House)
Adam Cohen, Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
(Penguin Press/Penguin Random House)
Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
(The New Press)
Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
(Nation Books)
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
(Harvard University Press)
Cathy O’Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
(Crown Publishing Group/Penguin Random House)
Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition
(Yale University Press)
Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
(Pantheon Books/Penguin Random House)
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>>8511711
National Book Award is one award that I don't think is entirely shit.
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>>8511711
None of the fiction titles seem interesting.
Turbo-pleb core.
They'll give to a woman, I guess.
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>women on the list
Bullshit like this is why I can't get published
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>>8511732
I think that the Association of Small Bombs looks somewhat interesting, but may or may not be on that cusp of post-colonial literature that comes across as whining.
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>>8511737
Seems interesting, but how would it be better than Mao II?
Only the non-fiction book on big data and the prison uprising seem interesting. The rest is just safe flavor-of-the-month pandering.
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>>8511741
>The rest is just safe flavor-of-the-month pandering
I have to agree, the amount of catering to african americans and the hand wringing american left is pretty jarring
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>>8511741
Very little is going to be better than Mao II, desu.
Whitehead is going to win. He's been around awhile.
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>>8511762
That is the only one ive seen reviewed anywhere, but when I read:
>Now, in his new novel, The Underground Railroad, Whitehead returns to his childhood vision of an actual locomotive that carries escaped slaves through tunnels. The book follows a 15-year-old slave named Cora...
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I just cant suffer through this type of shit anymore after 4 years of literature courses. I dont even have a problem with black authors, i love african lit stuff, but fuck.
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>>8511762
>Oprah's book club
>black author
>about slavery
Definitely a shoo-in for all the wrong reasons regardless of quality.
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