The Happy Booker handicaps PEN/Faulkner
Over at a new litblog, The Happy Booker, the finalists get handicapped. Even odds for Ha Jin's War Trash. Finalists for 25th PEN/Faulkner awards are Ha Jin; Marilynne Robinson, Gilead; Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker; Jerome Charyn, The Green Lantern; Steve Yarbrough, Prisoners of War. Winner gets $15,000, finalists $5000. And much prestige: this is an award for unfettered seriousness. Award ceremony May 14th, followed by $100-a-plate din-dins in Folger Shakespeare Library. Check out The Happy Booker. She mentions a great quiz to find out if you're an Elizabeth 1 or a Mary Queen of Scots: i.e. a Thinker and Intuitive; a Thinker and Sensualist; a Feeler and Sensualist; or a Feeler and Intuitive. They left out the category for those of us who are a Maniac and a Sensualist.
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