2.21.2006
PEN/Faulkner Announced
Doctorow won the PEN/Faulkner. Probably, he was the favorite. Interesting shortlist: William Henry Lewis, Karen Fisher, Bruce Wagner, and James Salter (Frank would be pleased). Anyone read any of these books? Were any of them awesome? Pleased me that two story collections were finalists.
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I read the Karen Fisher. I was surprised to see her nominated. The book wasn't bad at all, just not PEN/Faulkner's usual choice, I would think: a love story set on the Oregon trail. The book was dense and atmospheric, though, and you know I love that.
The Salter collection is fantastic - short, sharp, often explicit stories. The title story, "Last Night," (that Ian mentions) was in the New Yorker; "Such Fun" was the story Salter read when he visited Iowa.
I wish I had written this book.
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