National Book Award Finalists Readings

The finalists for the 2002 National Book Awards read selections from their nominated books. Twenty authors from the four nominated categories - nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and young people’s literature - read for five minutes each. The authors and books are:

NONFICTION - Robert Caro (Master of the Senate, published by Knopf), Devra Davis (When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle against Pollution, published by Basic Books), Atul Gawande (Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science, published by Henry Holt and Company), Elizabeth Gilbert (The Last American Man, published by Viking Penguin), Steve Olson (Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past through Our Genes, published by Houghton Mifflin Company.)

FICTION - Mark Costello (Big If, published by W.W. Norton), Julia Glass (Three Junes, published by Pantheon Books), Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here, published by Doubleday), Martha McPhee ([Gorgeous L close