{"id":262026,"date":"2008-05-08T14:11:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T14:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/05\/08\/believer-book-award-shortlist\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:32:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:32:13","slug":"believer-book-award-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/05\/08\/believer-book-award-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Believer Book Award Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.believermag.com\/issues\/200805\/?read=believer_book_awards\"><i>The Believer<\/i><\/a> recently announced the shortlist for its 2007 book award, which includes the books the editors feel were the &#8220;strongest and, in their opinion, the most undervalued of the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pretty solid group:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Samedi the Deafness,<\/i> Jesse Ball (Vintage)<\/li>\n<li><i>Sunless,<\/i> Gerard Donovan (Overlook)<\/li>\n<li><i>Zeroville,<\/i> Steve Erickson (Europa Editions)<\/li>\n<li><i>Generation Loss,<\/i> Elizabeth Hand (Small Beer)<\/li>\n<li><i>African Psycho,<\/i> Alain Mabancko (Soft Skull)<\/li>\n<li><i>Remainder,<\/i> Tom McCarthy (Vintage)<\/li>\n<li><i>The Revisionist,<\/i> Miranda Mellis (Calamari)<\/li>\n<li><i>The Power of Flies,<\/i> Lydie Salvayre (Dalkey Archive)<\/li>\n<li><i>The Meat and Spirit Plan,<\/i> Selah Saterstrom (Coffee House Press)<\/li>\n<li><i>An Ordinary Spy,<\/i> Joseph Weisberg (Bloomsbury) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Number on here that I&#8217;m not familiar with, but I&#8217;m pulling for the McCarthy and Salvayre . . . The winner&#8212;along with the reader&#8217;s choices&#8212;will appear in the June issue. (Just in time for BEA?) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Believer recently announced the shortlist for its 2007 book award, which includes the books the editors feel were the &#8220;strongest and, in their opinion, the most undervalued of the year.&#8221; Pretty solid group: Samedi the Deafness, Jesse Ball (Vintage) Sunless, Gerard Donovan (Overlook) Zeroville, Steve Erickson (Europa Editions) Generation Loss, Elizabeth Hand (Small Beer) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[12026,1836],"class_list":["post-262026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-believer-book-award","tag-cwp"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358246,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262026\/revisions\/358246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}