On Wednesday, the winners of the 2013 National Book Awards will be announced. Finalists in all four categories have published their work in The New Yorker; three are staff writers, while others have appeared at the New Yorker Festival, written Personal Histories for the magazine, or made other sorts of cameos in its pages. In the fiction category, finalists include Rachel Kushner, for “The Flamethrowers”; Jhumpa Lahiri, for “The Lowland”; Thomas Pynchon, for “Bleeding Edge”; and George Saunders, for “The Tenth of December.” Among the non-fiction nominees are Jill Lepore, for “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin”; George Packer, for “The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America”; and Lawrence Wright, for “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief.” Finalists in poetry include Frank Bidart, for “Metaphysical Dog”; and Lucie Brock-Broido, for “Stay, Illusion.” In the Young People’s Literature category, Cynthia Kadohata is a finalist for “The Thing About Luck.” Here is a collection of New Yorker pieces by or about the nominees.
In his April review of “The Flamethrowers,” set mostly in New York in the nineteen-seventies, New Yorker book critic James Wood praised Rachel Kushner’s second novel as “scintillatingly alive.” In June, Kushner spoke with the magazine’s Sasha Frere-Jones about her characters, and who among them inspired the novel’s vivid name.
(*note-this article is from November but I love to hear about writing contests. My guess is if they announced it in November, you have a year to work on a submission. If you want more information go to newyorker.com)
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