C. Dale Young's Blog, page 14

Still sitting under a shroud of smoke, the Sun high above the Pacific.

#sanfrancisco #wildfires #smokeinthesky #smokyskies #skylovers #skyporn #natureasart #naturephotography #badairquality #badair #pacificocean #oceanbeach #redsun

The sun shrouded in the smoke over San Francisco from the fires burning north of here.

#sunset #sunset

The 2017 National Book Award Longlist Finalists in Fiction

Elliot Ackerman, Dark at the Crossing
(Knopf / Penguin Random House)

Daniel Alarcón, The King Is Always Above the People: Stories
(Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House)

Charmaine Craig, Miss Burma
(Grove Press / Grove Atlantic)

Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach
(Scribner / Simon & Schuster)

Lisa Ko, The Leavers
(Algonquin Books / Workman Publishing)

Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
(Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Book Group)

Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
(Graywolf Press)

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, A Kind of Freedom
(Counterpoint Press)

Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing
(Scribner / Simon & Schuster)

Carol Zoref, Barren Island
(New Issues Poetry & Prose)

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The National Book Award names its 2017 long list for Poetry:

Frank Bidart, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers)

Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, Ltd.)

Leslie Harrison, The Book of Endings (University of Akron Press)

Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company)

Laura Kasischke, Where Now: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press)

Layli Long Soldier, WHEREAS (Graywolf Press)

Shane McCrae, In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press)

Sherod Santos, Square Inch Hours (W. W. Norton & Company)

Danez Smith, Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems (Graywolf Press)

Mai Der Vang, Afterland (Graywolf Press)