{"id":2760,"date":"2020-04-05T09:45:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T09:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2020-04-05T09:45:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T09:45:10","slug":"brazos-bookstore-buyer-keaton-patterson-named-nba-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=2760","title":{"rendered":"Brazos Bookstore Buyer Keaton Patterson Named NBA Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">The National Book Foundation has opened submissions for the 71st National Book Awards and announced this year&#8217;s slate of twenty-five judges for the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people\u2019s literature.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">A lifelong Texan,&nbsp;Keaton Patterson<strong>,<\/strong>&nbsp;lead buyer for Brazos Bookstore in Houston, has been named a judge of the 2020 awards in the fiction category. He holds an MA in American Literature and lives with his wife and son in Pearland, Texas.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">The judges for the 2020 National Book Awards will select fifty longlist titles, ten per category, which will be announced mid-September. There will be twenty-five finalists, to be announced on October 6. Winners in all five categories will be announced at the 71st&nbsp;National Book Awards in November. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston&#8217;s Keaton Patterson named National Book Award judge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,9,8,22,247],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-awards","tag-lonestarliterarylife","tag-lonestarliterarycom","tag-newsbrief","tag-texasbookstore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}