Not the basketball one

 

The NBA has announced its judges for 2011 in Publishers Weekly:

"The fiction panel consists of Jerome Charyn, John Crowley, Victor LaValle, Yiyun Li, and Deirdre McNamer (chair); nonfiction: Yunte Huang, Alice Kaplan (chair), Jill Lepore, Barbara Savage, and Rebecca Solnit; poetry: Elizabeth Alexander (chair), Thomas Sayers Ellis, Amy Gerstler, Kathleen Graber, and Robert Tejada; and young people's literature: Marc Aronson (chair), Ann Brashares, Matt de la Peña, Nikki Grimes, and Will Weaver."

Apparently we will receive, as the summer wears on, upwards of 200 books in the fiction category (hard to imagine that nonfiction won't be larger). This is a solemn duty which I am sure, when I am able to look back oin it many years later, will fill me with pleasure and pride to remember. The stack I have got so far reaches almost to my knee.