{"id":293046,"date":"2013-02-15T19:45:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T19:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2013\/02\/15\/three-percent-53-are-the-nbccs-the-greatest-american-book-awards\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:45:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:45:05","slug":"three-percent-53-are-the-nbccs-the-greatest-american-book-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2013\/02\/15\/three-percent-53-are-the-nbccs-the-greatest-american-book-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Percent #53: Are the NBCCs the Greatest American Book Awards?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On this week’s podcast, we welcome National Book Critics Circle board member Carolyn Kellogg to talk about the NBCC<\/span> awards, the changes to the National Book Award (which set me off on a bit of a paranoid rant), Bookish and its suckishness, and a variety of other literary topics. <\/p>\n

I also want to add a bit of an update. Since the time we spoke, I’ve finished HHhH<\/em> and most of NW<\/em>, and contrary to all the niceties expressed on this podcast, I’m pretty bummed out about the NBCC<\/span> finalists for fiction. Both HHhH<\/em> and NW<\/em> are staggeringly<\/em> mediocre and should be replaced by Satantango<\/em> and Maidenhair<\/em>. Then again, the sheer literary quality of a list of books including these two masterpieces along with Lydia Millet’s Magnificence<\/em> would be so mind-blowingly amazing that no future list could ever match up. In other words, the NBCC<\/span> chose to middle-mind the shit out of their list of finalists to save you—the readers—from experiencing too much literary joy all at once. That’s the best explanation I can come up with, since, wow, I gave these books way too much credit before reading them. <\/p>\n

And don’t even get me started on the fact that Errol Morris’s A Wilderness of Error<\/em> isn’t on there. (I totally blanked on this while we were recording.) But as a nod to my other conspiracy theories, I’ll give the NBCC<\/span> the benefit of the doubt on this one and assume Wilderness<\/em> isn’t a finalist because of Joe McGinniss.<\/a><\/p>\n

This week’s music is We the Common (For Valerie Borden),<\/a> which is off of the new Thao & The Get Down Stay Down album, We the Common<\/em>. (This is an amazing album. Probably my favorite of the year so far. And is aesthetically more pleasing that HHhH<\/em> and NW<\/em>. Yeah, I had to.)<\/p>\n

As always you can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes by clicking here<\/a>. To subscribe with other podcast downloading software, such as Google’s Listen<\/a>, copy the following link<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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