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New York Times book reviewer Janet Maslin! Yes, Janet Maslin! Janet Maslin who praises David Wroblewski’s The Story of Edgar Sawtelle as “enchanting,“ knocks Joshua Ferris’s The Unnamed for what she calls its “preciousness,” and never, ever seems to get it right. (At least I think she never gets it right, and it’s my fucking award to give.)

Past winners include Per Petterson and Toni Morrison.

Congratulations, Janet! It is a pleasure to consistently disagree with you. I hope you enjoy Wroblewski‘s follow-up. In that one, perhaps humans will communicate enchantingly with elephants  in a story that is a modern retelling of King Lear.

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