The LA Times has announced the finalists for their book awards, and we’re pleased that we’ve reviewed a number of them here at The Rumpus.
I’m particularly proud that we got 3 of the 5 nominees for first fiction: Tinkers by Paul Harding; In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin; and Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower, as well as an interview with a fourth nominee, Philipp Meyer, author of American Rust. And from the fiction category, we reviewed Kate Walbert’s A Short History of Women.
In poetry, we reviewed Tom Healy’s What the Right Hand Knows and interviewed Gabrielle Calvocoressi of Apocalyptic Swing, and published poems by both of them in Rumpus Original Poems.
Finally, Dave Eggers, who we’ve interviewed and whose book Zeitoun (excerpted here) was nominated in the Current Interest category, will be given the first Innovators Award for his work as a publisher and with the 826 Literacy Centers (highlighted here).
Congratulations to all the nominees.
