December 10, 2006
National Book Awards Finalist Reading - Group 3
Nicole Krauss emcees, as the third of five groups of finalists read from their National Book Award-nominated work.
For Young People’s Literature, Patricia McCormick reads from Sold (Hyperion Books for Children); for Poetry, Ben Lerner reads from Angle of Yaw (Copper Canyon Press); for Nonfiction, Timothy Egan reads from The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Houghton Mifflin); and for Fiction, Richard Powers reads from The Echo Maker (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
