I am 0 for 10 this year. Ouch! But I'm making predictions anyway.
FICTION
Bonnie Jo Campbell, AMERICAN SALVAGE (Wayne State University Press)
Colum McCann, LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN (Random House)
Daniyal Mueenuddin, IN OTHER ROOMS, OTHER WONDERS (W. W. Norton & Co.)
Jayne Anne Phillips, LARK AND TERMITE (Alfred A. Knopf)
Marcel Theroux, FAR NORTH (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Uninformed prediction: Last year I based my pick on whether I had heard of the books before, and that turned out to be completely wrong. But I've heard about two of these books a lot and two not at all, so I'm going for the one in the middle, LARK AND TERMITE. Hey, I didn't say this was scientific or accurate. ETA: I should have picked AMERICAN SALVAGE because Campbell may have the best author bio page ever.
NONFICTION
David M. Carroll, FOLLOWING THE WATER: A HYDROMANCER'S NOTEBOOK
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Sean B. Carroll, REMARKABLE CREATURES: EPIC ADVENTURES IN THE SEARCH FOR THE ORIGINS OF SPECIES (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Greg Grandin, FORDLANDIA: THE RISE AND FALL OF HENRY FORD'S FORGOTTEN JUNGLE CITY (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt)
Adrienne Mayor, THE POISON KING: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF MITHRADATES, ROME'S DEADLIEST ENEMY (Princeton University Press)
T. J. Stiles, THE FIRST TYCOON: THE EPIC LIFE OF CORNELIUS VANDERBILT (Alfred A. Knopf)
Uninformed prediction: I have a good feeling about REMARKABLE CREATURES because it's the Darwin bicentennial year. Runner up: FORDLANDIA.
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3 days ago
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I've heard of LARK AND TERMITE! It must be mainstream!
And as befitting the bicentennial, I noticed that one of the young people's books was also about Charles Darwin.
As an aside, I always get Professor Sean Carroll the Molecular Biologist confused with Professor Sean Carroll the Astrophysicist, who was at the University of Chicago the same time I was.
That's so embarrassing that they showed up to the party with the same name.
So who do you think is going to win?
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