National Book Award Finalist Reading held at the New School for Social Research on November 13th at 7pm. A speed reading event with groups of 4, one from each catagory reading from their nominated works. Sponsored by the New School and National Book Foundation. Sen Bob Kerry and Bret Anthony Johnston hosted.
National Book Foundation
in partnership with
The New School Writing Program
presents the
2007 National Book Award Finalists Reading
Tuesday, November 13, 2007, at 7:00 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street, New York City
(between 5th and 6th Avenues)
Master of Ceremonies: Bret Anthony Johnston
* Note: Actor Neal Huff will read in place of Denis Johnson.
FICTION
Mischa Berlinski, Fieldwork (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - Interview
Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - Interview
Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End (Little, Brown & Company) - Interview
Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - Interview
Jim Shepard, Like You’d Understand, Anyway (Alfred A. Knopf) - Interview
Fiction judges: Francine Prose (chair), Andrew Sean Greer,
Walter Kirn, David Means, and Joy Williams.
NONFICTION
Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I’m Dying (Alfred A. Knopf) - Interview
Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
(Twelve/Hachette Book Group USA) - Interview
Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
(Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) - Interview
Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison: A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf) - Interview
Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
(Doubleday) - Interview
Nonfiction judges: David Shields (chair), Deborah Blum,
Caroline Elkins, Annette Gordon-Reed, and James Shapiro.
POETRY
Linda Gregerson, Magnetic North (Houghton Mifflin Company) - Interview
Robert Hass, Time and Materials (Ecco/HarperCollins) - Interview
David Kirby, The House on Boulevard St.
(Louisiana State University Press) - Interview
Stanley Plumly, Old Heart (W.W. Norton & Company) - Interview
Ellen Bryant Voigt, Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006
(W.W. Norton & Company) - Interview
Poetry Judges: Charles Simic (chair), Linda Bierds, David St. John,
Vijay Seshadri, and Natasha Trethewey.
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
(Little, Brown & Company) - Interview
Kathleen Duey, Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One
(Atheneum Books for Young Readers) - Interview
M. Sindy Felin, Touching Snow (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) - Interview
Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic Press) - Interview
Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl (Little, Brown & Company) - Interview
Young People’s Literature Judges: Elizabeth Partridge (chair),
Pete Hautman, James Howe, Patricia McCormick, and Scott Westerfeld.
