Marjorie Osterhous of Seattle wrote in an e-mail, “Seriously? Seriously??? The news is that literary darling Jonathan Franzen LOST an award, not that (talented but less well-known female) Jennifer Egan WON? Please spend a couple of minutes gazing into your editorial navels today and ask yourselves what happened.”–M.O on The National Book Critics Circle honored Jennifer Egan’s novel “A Visit From the Goon Squad” with its fiction prize over Jonathan Franzen‘s best seller novel Freedom.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.15.11~