Posted by Internet Gal on November 21, 2007 at 10:54:26:
In Reply to: Hey, Internet Gal - how about that Nat Book Award? posted by JJWest on November 20, 2007 at 17:21:57:
: Hey, Internet Gal - how about that National Book Award? Did you predict Denis Johnson was going to win it?
Of course. He was the only one with the non-writing credentials (he's a university professor in Texas).
Actually, it is a bit surprising because the book is not written like your usual Nat book award winner. Not since Cold Mountain has there been such a genre-like 3rd-person close winner. And it's about Vietnam, so how could it lose?