2013 National Book Award Longlists Released

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Last year, the fiction finalists included far more male authors than female, however the count is even in 2013.
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The Booker’s Dozen: The 2013 Booker Longlist

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This year's longlist is among the most diverse ever put out by the Booker judges.
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Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2013 Book Preview

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At 9,000 words strong and encompassing 86 titles, this is the only second-half 2013 book preview you will ever need.
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I Read About It: Music, Food, Poetry, and Lifestyle Suggestions We’ve Taken from Literature

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After I read The Hare with the Amber Eyes, I went to the Art Institute to see a Renoir that one of the book’s (real-life) characters had owned. And I somewhat blame my penchant for living on a dime in small, urban apartments by how taken I was, as a 14-year-old living in Indiana, by that enchanting 90-second opening of An American in Paris. So I put the question out to my Millions colleagues: What works of art have you been introduced to by other works of art?
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The Notables: 2012

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The Feminist Hate-Read Book Club Reads Naomi Wolf’s Vagina: A New Biography

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A shady cabal of feminist writers conducted a week-long roundtable discussion of Naomi Wolf's Vagina: A New Biography. The book was troubling, bewildering, and often infuriating. There was a prize for the writer who worked the most puns into her review.
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We’re All Just Lying Machines: A Conversation about Gillian Flynn

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What I love most about Gone Girl was the way Flynn made me think about how character and identity are constructed. She made me like and then dislike a character, dislike and then like another one, and then dislike the whole lot of them, the idea of identity dissolving and reappearing at every moment.
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