Who should win the National Book Awards?

By Carolyn Kellogg

Nov. 20, 2013 12:23 PM PT

Tonight is one of the most glamorous in American literature: It’s the National Book Awards. The gala in New York City is an event for all 20 finalists (well, almost all: The publicity-averse Thomas Pynchon is unlikely to attend), their publishers and other interested parties. Currently, the finalists’ books have silver medallions, but by the end of the night four will be adorned with gold. Who do you think should win?

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

Who should win the National Book Awards?

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