As is the custom just about everywhere in Book Universe right now, the reviewers at The New Yorker have listed their favorite books of 2010. Among them is the novel Everything by Montanan Kevin Canty, which appears with this pleasing summation: “One year’s turmoil for five appealingly aimless Montanans.” Those New Yorker people, so good at pith. Of course, someone probably had all day to craft that sentence while your average bookseller might have to skip her bathroom break to make time to write a decent blurb. But we digress. The folks over at New West have also named Everything as one of their top 25 books by Western authors in 2010, along with Memory Wall, Then Came the Evening, Nashville Chrome, Boys and Girls Like You and Me, Driving on the Rim, The Wilding, River House and The Lonely Polygamist, among others. Congrats to Canty and these Western authors, many of whom also appear on a shortlist from a group of Northwest indie booksellers.
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Appealingly Aimless Montanans Win New Yorker Hearts (and Other Titles from Listapalooza 2010)
December 7, 2010
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