848 Book critic Donna Seaman: Finalist for National Book Critics Circle for ...

. (We thought “Book Critics Circle” was limited to book reviewers but I digress…). I know, I know, how did she lose and be a finalist at the same time? Welcome to the National Book Critics Circle awards, people. They work all year, meet in January to narrow down the names of writers and critics who should be finalists. They hold a press event in NYC on Saturday to announce the finalists, and in the same breath, they announce the winners. So Donna was a winner/loser within 10 seconds.

Regardless, it’s an amazing recognition from one of the premiere awards in the literary world. Before Donna gets super-super famous and starts making super-crazy Audrey Niffenegger money , we asked her to answer a few questions about this prestigious recognition.

What does this award mean (explain for people outside the literary world):

Critics are so often maligned, our work so easily trivialized and mocked, the National Book Critics Circle was founded in 1974 to create a professional support group, if you will, for book critics, a forum in which we can talk about the complexities of literature and the challenges of book reviewing.

Book list! (And medical school advice)

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