"The award grew out of my distaste for most literary prizes," said Dennis Johnson of Melville House. "The point is usually to laud some individual or book that doesn’t really need the stroking. We wanted to come up with something that would better support the ecosystem we live in. The IBCA is good for the author, good for the bookseller, and good for the publisher, and so it’s good for art and industry."
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade Books)
The Instructions by Adam Levin (McSweeney’s)
The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel (Unbridled)
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes (Grove/Atlantic)
Wingshooters by Nina Revoyr (Akashic)
I love getting titles by authors I haven't heard about before. Ever hungry for fresh ink, as it were...
ReplyDeleteI read The Windup Girl. It won a bunch of awards. I found it tedious, and the thinking behind his world creation did not make sense. Never had a 'willing suspension of disbelief'.
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