Books: National Book Award "tanking"

Finalists for the National Book award = 5 obscure women authors from New York. This in a year when Tom Wolfe, John Updike, Philip Roth, etc. ALL have new books out (and in Roth's case, the book release has been a major event). Apparently four of the five books had sold less than 2,000 copies at the time they were named as finalists. Way to make yet another literary award into a joke.