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NEW YORK Salman Rushdie's Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, his explicit and surprisingly resilient memoir about his brutal stabbing in 2022, is a nominee for the National Book Awards..
The National Book Foundation, which presents the awards, released long lists of 10 Thursday for nonfiction and poetry..
Besides Knife, the nonfiction list includes explorations of faith, identity, oppression, global resources and outer space, among them Hanif Abdurraqib's Theres Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, Rebecca Boyle's Our Moon: How Earths Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are and Jason De Len's Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling..
The other nonfiction nominees were: Eliza Griswold's Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church, Kate Manne's Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia, Ernest Scheyder's The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives," Richard Slotkin's A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America, Deborah Jackson Taffa's Whiskey Tender" and Vanessa Anglica Villarreal's Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders..
Along with Carson's Wrong Norma, poetry nominees include Pulitzer Prize winner Dianne Seuss' latest, Modern Poetry"; Fady Joudah's elliptically titled ; Dorianne Laux's Life on Earth; Gregory Pardlo's Spectral Evidence; and Rowan Ricardo Phillips' Silver..
