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1. Ben Fountain Wins National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
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By: Jason Boog, on 2/28/2013
Blog: Galley Cat (Mediabistro) (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:  Awards, Ben Fountain, Marina Warner, Leanne Shapton, Robert A. Caro, D. A. Powell, Andrew Solomon, Add a tag

The winners of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards have been revealed. Ben Fountain won the fiction prize with Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and Andrew Solomon took nonfiction with Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.

Leanne Shapton won the autobiography award for Swimming Studies and Robert A. Caro took biography with The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson.  D. A. Powell won the poetry award for Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys. Marina Warner took the criticism prize for Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights.

Below, we’ve linked to free samples of every finalist for the awards.

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2. Free Samples of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalists
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By: Maryann Yin, on 2/21/2013
Blog: Galley Cat (Mediabistro) (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:  Mixtapes, Lydia Millet, Alison Bechdel, Chris Ware, Michael Chabon, Paolo Bacigalupi, Lauren Groff, Ben Fountain, Nick Harkaway, A.S. King, Nate Silver, Martine Leavitt, Matthew Quick, Jake Tapper, John Barry, David Abrams, Elizabeth Wein, Katherine Boo, Jami Attenberg, Maggie Shipstead, Jonathan Gottschall, Ariel S. Winter, Alice Kessler-Harris, Amy S. Greenberg, Bin Ramke, Chris Pavone, Cole Swensen, D. A. Powell, David Nasaw, Fergus M. Bordewich, Florence Williams, Fuminori Nakamura, George Black, George Dyson, H.W. Brands, Jim Sterba, Karen Elliot House, Kevin P. Keating, Leela Corman, Louise Gluck, Lydia Netzer, Awards, Tana French, Susan Cain, Robin Sloan, Sammy Harkham, Steve Coll, Robert Caro, Spain Rodriguez, R.J. Smith, Richard Kabaservice, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Add a tag

The finalists for the 33rd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prize have been revealed, and we’ve collected free samples of all their books below–some of the best books released in 2012. Here’s more about the awards:

“The winners of the L.A. Times book prizes will be announced at an awards ceremony April 19, the evening before the L.A. Times Festival of Books, April 20-21. Held on USC’s campus in Bovard Auditorium, the awards are open to the public; tickets will be made available in late March.”

 

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