So...Green Girl was chosen as one of the 16 books in The Morning News/Powell's Tournament of Books where "a ridiculously small and poorly informed group of TMN editors and contributors have chosen 16 of the most cherished, hyped, ignored, and/or enthusiastically praised books of the year to enter into a month-long tournament, NCAA-basketball-madness style, beginning March 7, 2012." This is very fun and bizarre. The winner gets a live rooster.
You can also vote in what they call their zombie poll, where the reader favorite gets an extra life or something. Click here to vote! You just have to click on a radio button. Easy-peasy.
Hopefully this gets more people to read the book?! I guess people write about it and the judges write about reading it so that will all be quite interesting and fun. In the semifinals, Green Girl is up against Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot, judged by Edith Zimmerman of The Hairpin! So that's exciting.
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so awesome!
ReplyDeletethanks gina. i think i'm the weirdo/totally wildcard pick. i can think of 10 other "indie"-ish books that i thought would might be on it (marbled swarm, blake's, zazen, zipper mouth, leaving the atocha station, chronology of water.) but hopefully people will be nice and it will lead to more people being exposed to the book! people seem to really get into it.
ReplyDeleteand by it i mean the tournament
ReplyDeleteI placed my "zombie poll" vote for you. I hope you find a lot of new readers.
ReplyDeleteThanks Tom! I think my entry redefines the concept of "dark horse" or "underdog." In the first round Green Girl goes up against Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot - I don't see much of a chance of getting out of there alive. At least I think it does I have trouble reading brackets.
ReplyDeleteOMG it's up against the marriage plot? kind of fucking nuts considering the portrayal of 20-something women eugenides gives compared to yours. obviously, i am in favor of yours. i wish you much luck- i've read both books and yours is a fuck of a lot better.
ReplyDeletealso: http://themoonstop.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-it-feels-like-for-girl.html
ReplyDeleteoh I love your piece Gina! Thanks! I'm imagining that's why they put it up against the Eugenides? Is there a 20something in The Marriage Plot? Very bizarre as I've really been meditating on The Virgin Suicides lately.
ReplyDeleteI have no anticipation/expectation of going past the first round - but hopefully more people will be exposed to the book!
just voted for you.. :) i haven't read it yet .. my copy arrives tomorrow..but still.. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Jane!
ReplyDeleteI'm a loyal tournament follower and am just starting you book.
ReplyDeleteNew readers: check!
Hi Jenny - Really good to see you here!
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