Nat’l Book Award Noms Skip Franzen, Include Peter Carey and Patti Smith

In what the AP’s reporter calls “the Great American Snub,” Jonathan Franzen’s much-discussed Freedom was not among the finalists for the 2010 fiction National Book Award. Among the titles that did make the cut are Peter Carey’s Parrot and Olivier in America, Nicole Krauss’s Great House, and Just Kids, rock legend Patti Smith’s memoir of her friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe.