{"id":14460,"date":"2022-10-19T09:50:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T07:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=14460"},"modified":"2022-10-19T09:50:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T07:50:35","slug":"the-long-and-short-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=14460","title":{"rendered":"The long and short of it &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the Booker fiction prize 2022, that is. I feel like I&#8217;ve been neglectful of all the other works that made it to the last or the last but one round. So here is the so-called long list and the short listed finalists. I have read but one &#8211; Elizabeth Strout&#8217;s <em>Oh William!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Long List announced on July 26:<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/the-colony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Colony<\/a>  by Audrey McGee<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/after-sappho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">After Sappho<\/a> by Selby Wynn Schwartz<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/glory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Glory<\/a> by NoViolet Bulawayo<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/small-things-like-these\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Small Things Like These<\/a> by Claire Keegan<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/nightcrawling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nightcrawling<\/a> by Leila Mottley<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/maps-of-our-spectacular-bodies\" target=\"_blank\">Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies<\/a> by Maddie Mortimer<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/case-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Case Study<\/a> by Graeme Macrea Burnet<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/treacle-walker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Treacle Walker<\/a> by Alan Garner<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/the-trees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Trees<\/a> by Percival Everett<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/trust\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trust<\/a> by Hernan Diaz<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida<\/a> by Shehan Karunatilaka<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/oh-william\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oh William!<\/a> by Elizabeth Strout<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/booth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Booth<\/a> by Karen Joy Fowler<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Short list announced on September 6:<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/glory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Glory<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/small-things-like-these\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Small Things Like These<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/treacle-walker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Treacle Walker<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/the-trees\">The <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/the-trees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trees<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/books\/oh-william\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oh William!<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The winner <a href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=14449\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"14449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">we now know<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I should say that the Booker website is an absolute treasure trove, including <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/reading-guides\" target=\"_blank\">reading guides for the shortlisted books<\/a>, quizzes that may (or may not) help one decide on what to read (or read not), information on the judges (Neil MacGregor was Chair this year), extracts, interviews and videos. And <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thebookerprizes.com\/the-booker-library\/features\/hilary-mantel-reading-list-a-guide-to-her-booker-nominated-titles\" target=\"_blank\">a featured list of works from Hilary Mantel<\/a> as a tribute to her place in Booker history, in British writing &#8211; of their own history but not only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the Booker fiction prize 2022, that is. I feel like I&#8217;ve been neglectful of all the other works that made it to the last or the last but one round. So here is the so-called long list and the short listed finalists. I have read but one &#8211; Elizabeth Strout&#8217;s Oh William! Long List &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=14460\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The long and short of it &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,6,23],"tags":[43,72],"class_list":["post-14460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fiction","category-writers-2","tag-booker-prize","tag-hilary-mantel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14460"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14468,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14460\/revisions\/14468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}