{"id":224,"date":"2007-10-10T13:08:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T18:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/10\/10\/god-is-not-great-is-a-national-book-award-finalists-which-affects-my-life-just-a-tiny-bit\/"},"modified":"2007-10-10T14:05:12","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T19:05:12","slug":"god-is-not-great-is-a-national-book-award-finalists-which-affects-my-life-just-a-tiny-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/10\/god-is-not-great-is-a-national-book-award-finalists-which-affects-my-life-just-a-tiny-bit\/","title":{"rendered":"God is Not Great is a National Book Award finalists (which affects my life just a tiny bit)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Hitchen&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/God_is_not_Great\">God is Not Great<\/a> (now with its own Wikipedia entry!), is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalbook.org\/nba2007.html\">National Book Award<\/a> finalist. Which is fantastic. It affects my life only in a little bit in that Cary called e-mailed me this morning to tell me we have to move my pre-pub dinners with booksellers up a week in November so it doesn&#8217;t conflict with National Book Award week. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/author\/results.pperl?authorid=32708\">Tim Weiner<\/a>, a fellow NYTimes reporter, also is a finalist for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/doubleday\/legacyofashes\/\">Legacy of Ashes; The History of the CIA.<\/a> Yay)<\/p>\n<p>Full list of finalists after the jump&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>2007 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTS<br \/>\nFiction<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Mischa Berlinski, Fieldwork (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux)<\/li>\n<li> Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux)<\/li>\n<li> Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End (Little, Brown &amp; Company)<\/li>\n<li> Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux)<\/li>\n<li> Jim Shepard, Like You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d Understand, Anyway (Alfred A. Knopf)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nonfiction<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m Dying (Alfred A. Knopf)<\/li>\n<li> Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything<\/li>\n<li> (Twelve\/Hachette Book Group USA)<\/li>\n<li> Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (Hill and<\/li>\n<li> Wang\/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)<\/li>\n<li> Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison: A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf)<\/li>\n<li> Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Doubleday)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Poetry<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Linda Gregerson, Magnetic North (Houghton Mifflin Company)<\/li>\n<li> Robert Hass, Time and Materials (Ecco\/HarperCollins)<\/li>\n<li> David Kirby, The House on Boulevard St. (Louisiana State University Press)<\/li>\n<li> Stanley Plumly, Old Heart (W.W. Norton &amp; Company)<\/li>\n<li> Ellen Bryant Voigt, Messenger (W.W. 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It affects my life only in a little bit in that Cary called e-mailed me this morning to tell me we have to move my pre-pub dinners with booksellers up a week in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-3C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}