NEW YORK – Novelist Jeffrey Eugenides, science-technology writer James Gleick and the late historian Manning Marable were among the nominees announced for the National Book Critics Circle awards
Eugenides was cited for “The Marriage Plot,” a novel in part about a subject close to reviewers — the love of books. It’s his first release since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for “Middlesex.” Other fiction finalists included short story writer Edith Pearlman, whose “Binocular Vision” was a National Book Award nominee last fall; Alan Hollinghurst’s acclaimed “The Stranger”; Dana Spiotta’s “Stone Arabia” and Teju Cole’s debut novel “Open City.”
Five finalists in each of six categories were selected this weekend by the critics circle, founded in 1974. Great reviews do not guarantee an NBCC nomination. Some of the year’s best-received books were among the missing, including Chad Harbach’s “The Art of Fielding,” Karen Russell’s “Swamplandia” and Christopher Hitchens’ “Arguably.”
Winners will be announced March 8. No cash prizes are given.
Gleick was a nominee in nonfiction for “The Information,” a review of how information has been shared through the centuries and its singular importance in modern times. The other nonfiction finalists were Amanda Foreman’s “A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American
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