Benjamin Taylor, a faculty member in the Graduate Program in Writing at The New School, has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious Barnes & Noble 2008 Discover Great New Writers Awards. He was picked in the fiction category for his book, The Book of Getting Even (Steerforth Press).

The winners in each category—fiction and nonfiction—receive a $10,000 prize and a full year of additional promotion from Barnes & Noble. Second-place finalists receive $5,000, and third-place finalists $2,500. The winners will be announced on Wednesday, March 4, at a private awards ceremony. At 7:00 p.m. that evening, all six finalists are invited to read from their work at Barnes & Noble's Tribeca store in New York City, located at 97 Warren Street (at Greenwich Street).

The Discover Awards honor the best works featured the previous calendar year in the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program.