Nominees announced for best short stories
NEW YORK (AP) -January 9, 2008 The three competing books: Jim Shepard's "Like You'd
Understand, Anyway," nominated for a National Book Award; Giller
winner Vincent Lam's "Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures"; and
British author Tessa Hadley's "Sunstroke and Other Stories."
The awards, in their fourth year, will be announced Feb. 27.
Previous winners include Edwidge Danticat's "The Dew Breaker"
and "The Stories of Mary Gordon."
