(Always nice to start the day with good news.)

Congratulations to our five finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize:

  • Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos (Current Interest)
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Current Interest)
  • Molotov’s Magic Lantern: Travels in Russian History by Rachel Polonsky (History)
  • Double Shadow by Carl Phillips (Poetry)
  • Ghost Light by Joseph O’Connor (Fiction)

David Bellos and Daniel Kahneman are also finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. And it’s a banner year for Phillips: not only is he a NBCC award finalist as well, but Double Shadow was named a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award.

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