At the 60th annual National Book Awards last night:
The National Book Award for Fiction went to Colum McCann for his novel, Let the Great World Spin
Keith Waldrop won the Poetry award for his book, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
T.J. Stiles won the award for Nonfiction with The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Good reading for a long break. More good reading on the library’s Good Reading page.