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National Book Award Finalists

This year's NBA finalists were announced today.

The fiction finalists are:

• Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
• Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba
• Peter Mattiessen, Shadow Country
• Marilynne Robinson, Home
• Salvatore Scibona, The End

For the entire list go here.

Literary Spokane

Timothy Egan, on winning the National Book Award for The Worst Hard Time two years ago, from today's NY Times:

Spokane, Wash. There must be something literary in the river that runs through it. It has produced two National Book Award winners in the last two years (Sherman Alexie, last year), and a third person, Jess Walter, was a finalist for fiction in 2006.