Nicole Krauss emcees, as the fifth and final of five groups of finalists read from their National Book Award-nominated work.
For Young People’s Literature, M.T. Anderson reads from The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party (Candlewick Press); for Poetry, James McMichael reads from Capacity (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); for Nonfiction, Taylor Branch reads from At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968 (Simon & Schuster); and for Fiction, Mark Z. Danielewski reads from Only Revolutions (Pantheon).
