6/12/2023 0 Comments Salvage the bones a novel![]() In the end, what’s any good reader really hoping for? That spark. Denying that he and his fellow judges had ignored popular novels in hopes of making the public “eat their spinach,” he said, “These five books worked some special kind of magic on us. Partly, I was annoyed that novels I’ve adored this year (“ Doc,” “ State of Wonder”) didn’t make the cut, and partly I was operating under the time-tested prejudice that books I’ve read are always better than books I haven’t read.īut one of the judges, a writer named Victor LaValle, whose critical opinions I admire, fired off a refreshingly assertive retort to people like me in Publishers Weekly. ![]() ![]() When the finalists for the National Book Award in Fiction were announced last month, I’m embarrassed to admit that I was among those critics grumbling about the obscurity of some of the authors ( Andrew Krivak?), even some of the publishers (Lookout Books?). ![]()
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