{"id":3264,"date":"2013-01-15T10:27:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T15:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:45","slug":"2012-national-book-critics-circle-award-finalists-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/15\/2012-national-book-critics-circle-award-finalists-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The finalists for the annual National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award have been announced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Laurent Binet<\/strong>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0374169918\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\">HHhH<\/a><\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/04\/exclusive-the-missing-pages-of-laurent-binets-hhhh.html\">The missing pages of <em>HHhH<\/em><\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ben Fountain<\/strong>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060885610\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\">Billy Lynn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Long Halftime Walk<\/a><\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/06\/everything-is-political-an-interview-with-ben-fountain.html\">Ben Fountain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Year in Reading<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/06\/everything-is-political-an-interview-with-ben-fountain.html\"><em>The Millions<\/em> interview<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adam Johnson<\/strong>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0812982622\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\">The Orphan Master\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Son<\/a><\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/212862\/the-orphan-masters-son-by-adam-johnson#excerpt\">excerpt<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lydia Millet<\/strong>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0393081702\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\">Magnificence<\/a><\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/12\/a-year-in-reading-lydia-millet.html\">Lydia Millet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Year in Reading<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zadie Smith<\/strong>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1594203970\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\">NW<\/a><\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/12\/a-year-in-reading-zadie-smith.html\">Zadie Smith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Year in Reading<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/09\/lamenting-the-modern-on-zadie-smiths-nw.html\">our review<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/07\/exclusive-the-first-lines-of-zadie-smiths-nw.html\">first lines<\/a> of <em>NW<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0374169918\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0374169918.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"cover\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060885610\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0060885610.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"cover\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0812982622\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0812982622.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"cover\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0393081702\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0393081702.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"cover\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1594203970\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1594203970.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"cover\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" \/><\/a><strong>Nonfiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Katherine Boo<\/strong>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1400067553\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\">Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity<\/a><\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/10\/written-through-tears-the-millions-interviews-katherine-boo.html\"><em>The Millions<\/em> Interview<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/11\/2012-national-book-award-winners-announced.html\">National Book Award winner<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Steve Coll<\/strong>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1594203350\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\">Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power<\/a><\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9781594203350,00.html?sym=EXC\">excerpt<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jim Holt<\/strong>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0871404095\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\">Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story<\/a><\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/books.wwnorton.com\/books\/detail-inside.aspx?ID=23798&amp;CTYPE=G\">excerpt<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Quammen<\/strong>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0393066800\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\">Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic<\/a><\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/books.wwnorton.com\/books\/detail-inside.aspx?ID=24692&amp;CTYPE=G\">excerpt<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Andrew Solomon<\/strong>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0743236718\/ref=nosim\/themillions-20\">Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity<\/a><\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/01\/staff-pick-john-jeremiah-sullivans-pulphead.html\">Staff Pick<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/books\/titles\/162722257\/far-from-the-tree-parents-children-and-the-search-for-identity\">excerpt<\/a> [pdf])<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2013\/01\/2012-national-book-critics-circle-award-finalists-announced.html\">The Millions : 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The finalists for the annual National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award have been announced (and the list includes  David Quammen.  Yay.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[554,314,288,251],"class_list":["post-3264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-554","tag-award","tag-national-book-critics-circle","tag-nbcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9991,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions\/9991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}