The Nobel Prize has struck Princeton. Institute for Advanced Study Professor Eric Maskin has been awarded a Nobel Prize for economics for his advancement of mechanism design theory, the institute announced Monday. Other Nobel names, of late, include Gore, and, of course, Lessing…
Last week, the National Book Award finalists were announced. Joshua Ferris’ Then We Came to the End; Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying; Denis Johnson’s Tree of Smoke; and Christopher Hitchens’ God is Not Great are among those who made the list. Winners will be announced November 14th.
Stay tuned for the winner of the Booker Prize, which will be announced later this evening...the two favorites are Ian McEwan for On Chesil Beach and Lloyd Jones for Mister Pip. Bets, anyone?