National Book Critics Circle Awards

Last night the National Book Critics Circle awards were presented to the best books published in English.  They are the only awards chosen only by book critics.  The National Book Critics Circle "honors outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about reading, criticism and literature".  Great mission!  We like fostering conversations about reading too!  

The winners include:

Best Fiction: Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman

Best Non-Fiction: Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff

Best Biography: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis

Best Poetry: Space, in Chains by Laura Kasischke

Best Autobiography: The Memory Palace: A Memoir by Mira Bartók

Best Criticism: Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews by Geoff Dyer