the new school to host national book award reading

Tuesday, November 18 at 7:00 pm in New York

Viewable at http://new.livestream.com/TheNewSchool/National-Book-Awards-Reading-2014
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Writer Téa Obreht (©Beowulf Sheehan)

NEW YORK, Nov. 12, 2014- On the eve of the annual National Book Awards ceremony, The School of Writing at The New School will host a reading with the finalists in the categories of Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young People’s Literature. The event will be moderated by Téa Obreht, a 2010 5 Under 35 Honoree and 2011 National Book Award Finalist for The Tiger's Wife.

“We at The New School are so honored to once again host the National Book Award finalist readings,” says Luis Jaramillo, Director of The School of Writing. “It is always such a treat to hear writers read their work with their own voices—the reading is a celebration of the rich diversity of voices in American literature.”

Sponsored by the National Book Foundation and the School of Writing, the event will be held on Tuesday, Novermber 18 at 7:00 pm in the historic auditorium at 66 West 12th Street, and includes a $10 admission fee. Purchase tickets here. The event will also be livestreamed at http://new.livestream.com/TheNewSchool/National-Book-Awards-Reading-2014

Since 1936, the National Book Awards have honored American literature's greatest contemporary authors. This year's finalists are:

Fiction:
• Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press/ Grove/Atlantic)
• Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See (Scribner/ Simon & Schuster)
• Phil Klay, Redeployment (The Penguin Press/ Penguin Group (USA))
• Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House)
• Marilynne Robinson, Lila (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Nonfiction:
• Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury)
• Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
(Metropolitan Books/ Henry Holt and Company)
• John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (W.W. Norton & Company)
• Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence
(Liveright Publishing Corporation/ W.W. Norton & Company)

Poetry:
• Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Fanny Howe, Second Childhood (Graywolf Press)
• Maureen N. McLane, This Blue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Fred Moten, The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions)
• Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press)

Young People’s Literature:
• Eliot Schrefer, Threatened (Scholastic Press)
• Steve Sheinkin, The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
(Roaring Brook Press/ Macmillan Publishers)
• John Corey Whaley, Noggin (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/ Simon & Schuster)
• Deborah Wiles, Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two (Scholastic Press)
• Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming (Nancy Paulsen Books/ Penguin Group (USA)

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