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NEW YORK<\/strong> \u2013 A book of essays by actor Lili Taylor, a memoir by restaurateur Keith McNally<\/a> and a bestseller from Andrew Ross Sorkin about the stock market crash that helped lead to the Great Depression are among the 11 finalists for a $50,000 literary prize. <\/p>\n The Gotham Book Prize,<\/a> launched in 2020 by bookstore owner-philanthropist Bradley Tusk and political strategist Howard Wolfson, honors fiction or nonfiction<\/a> about New York City. <\/p>\n Each of the 10 nominated books touch upon a different facet of New York, whether Taylor’s love for quiet moments and the outdoors in \u201cTurning to Birds,\u201d the dining life in McNally’s \u201cI Regret Almost Everything\u201d or the panic on Wall Street in Sorkin’s \u201c1929.\u201d<\/p>\n Finalists also include Mark Ronson’s memoir, \u201cNight People: How to Be a DJ in ’90s New York City\u201d; Adam Ross’ novel of the city in the 1980s, \u201cPlayworld\u201d; and a novel centered on the 1920s Harlem Renaissance, Victoria Christopher Murray’s \u201cHarlem Rhapsody.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s clearer than ever that our city is an object of fascination and the ideal setting for countless books, both fiction and nonfiction,\u201d Tusk and Wolfson said in a statement Tuesday. \u201cWhen great writers focus on New York City, that maintains our status as the place that the best and brightest from all of the world want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n The winner will be announced in the spring. Previous Gotham prize recipients include Colson Whitehead’s novel, \u201cCrook Manifesto,\u201d and Andrea Elliott’s investigative \u201cInvisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.clickorlando.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NEW YORK \u2013 A book of essays by actor Lili Taylor, a memoir by restaurateur Keith McNally and a bestseller from Andrew Ross Sorkin about the stock market crash that helped lead to the Great Depression are among the 11 finalists for a $50,000 literary prize. The Gotham Book Prize, launched in 2020 by bookstore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2242287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[434043,434044,396888,434042,434046,434041,21741,434045,425212,21818,345282,354270],"class_list":["post-2242286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-adam-ross","tag-andrea-elliott","tag-andrew-ross-sorkin","tag-bradley-tusk","tag-christopher-murray","tag-colson-whitehead","tag-entertainment","tag-howard-wolfson","tag-keith-mcnally","tag-lifestyle","tag-lili-taylor","tag-mark-ronson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Lili-Taylor-Keith-McNally-and-Andrew-Ross-Sorkin-are-among.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242288,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242286\/revisions\/2242288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2242287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}