(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
What, no Louise Erdrich? National Book Award long list for fiction ignores Minnesota star's 'LaRose'
Some notable writers are missing from the long list for the National Book Awards, including Minnesota's Louise Erdrich, whose novel, "LaRose," was critically acclaimed.
September 15, 2016 at 1:21PM
Whitehead will be in the Twin Cities Nov. 3 for Talking Volumes.
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) (Star Tribune review forthcoming.)
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) (Star Tribune review forthcoming)
The short list will be announced in October, and winners in November.
LOCAL FICTION: Featuring stories within stories, she’ll discuss the book at Talking Volumes on Tuesday.
