On my first day at the National Book Foundation, I entered an office full of books. Shelves filled with tomes lined every wall; stray books found their way to the top of the air conditioners, coffee pots, even the railing in the stairwell. Advanced Readers’ Copies, books by previous National Book Award Winners and Finalists, and submissions for the 2016 Awards were everywhere awaiting categorization. Some of these were already on my own bookshelf, but a great many were not. This, I thought, was coming home.
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