December 8, 2006
National Book Awards Finalist Reading - Group 2
Nicole Krauss emcees, as the second of five groups of finalists read from their National Book Award-nominated work.
For Young People’s Literature, Martine Leavitt reads from Keturah and Lord Death (Front Street Books/Boyd Mills Press); for Poetry, Nathaniel Mackey reads from Splay Anthem (New Directions); for Nonfiction, Lawrence Wright, who could not attend, had George Packer reading from The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Alfred A. Knopf); and for Fiction, Jess Walter reads from The Zero (Judith Regan Books/Harper Collins).
July 28th, 2008 at 12:40 am
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