The Tournament of Books

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An annual battle royale between 16 of the best novels published in the previous year

I’m a writer who reads almost exclusively for pleasure, and what brings me pleasure is rarely a vigorous moral lesson or a novel undertaken with the desire to instruct. I like the capacious and the unruly; the weird; the plotty and its opposite, the entirely vibes-based; the rampant deployment of the semicolon. I like books that spill over, that put out tendrils, that revel in unrepentant maximalism; I like a hot, compelling mess a lot more than I like somebody with their button-down tucked in. This is books, not church.
A printed copy of the brackets for this year’s Tournament of Books alongside multiple wads of balled-up paper