Awards: BN Discover Winners, McCracken Takes Story Prize, LAT Nominees

Publishers Lunch

The Barnes & Noble Discover Great Awards went to All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld (Knopf) (a Publishers Lunch Buzz Book a year ago prior to publication) and Badluck Way by Bryce Andrews (Atria).

Elizabeth McCracken has won The Story Prize for her collection Thunderstruck (Dial Press).

The Los Angeles Times announced finalists in 10 categories for their annual book prizes, to be awarded April 18. LeVar Burton will receive their Innovators Award "for inspiring generations of readers with Reading Rainbow." Among the nominees are:

Fiction
Donald Antrim, The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Jesse Ball, Silence Once Begun (Pantheon)
Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing World (Simon & Schuster)
Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation (Knopf)
Helen Oyeyemi, Boy, Snow, Bird (Riverhead)

The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
Diane Cook, Man v. Nature: Stories (HarperCollins)
John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd (Coffee House Press)
Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (Coffee House Press)
David James Poissant, The Heaven of Animals: Stories (Simon & Schuster)

Current Interest
Atul Gawande, Being Mortal (Metropolitan Books)
Jeff Hobbs, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace (Scribner)
Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy (Spiegel & Grau)
Matt Taibbi, The Divide (Spiegel & Grau)
Héctor Tobar, Deep Down Dark (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)