Graywolf Press strikes again!

Geoff Dyer's "Otherwise Known as the Human Condition" wins NBCC award.

March 9, 2012 at 2:29AM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of its annual awards, and whaddya know, there's Minneapolis' Graywolf Press front and center once again. Geoff Dyer's essay collection, "Otherwise Known as the Human Condition," published by Graywolf, took top honors in the criticism category (Here's the Strib's review of the book, by writer Dylan Hicks.)

The NBCC judges said that Dyer is a "critic par excellence who showed his love of his various subject in tour-de-force language."

Other winners include:

"Binocular Vision," by Edith Pearlman, for fiction

"Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World," by Maya Jasanoff, for nonfiction

"Space, in Chains," by Laura Kasischke, for poetry

"The Memory Palace," by Mira Bartok, for memoir

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Laurie Hertzel

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Freelance writer and former Star Tribune books editor Laurie Hertzel is at lauriehertzel@gmail.com.

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