Announcing the Finalists for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction!

We’re excited to announce the finalists for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction. The winner will be announced at the 2024 Big Other Book Awards Ceremony, which will be aired virtually (date and time to be announced).

Without further ado, here are the finalists for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction:

Samuel Ace’s I Want to Start by Saying (CSU Poetry Center)

Franco Berardi’s Quit Everything: Interpreting Depression (Repeater Books)

Edwidge Danticat’s We’re Alone (Graywolf Press)

Stacey D’Erasmo’s The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry (Graywolf Press)

Sarah Dowling’s Here Is a Figure: Grounding in Literary Form (Northwestern University Press)

Danielle Dutton’s Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other (Coffee House Press)

Richard Gilman-Opalsky’s Imaginary Power, Real Horizons: The Practicality of Utopianism (AK Press)

David Graeber’s The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
and Cities Made Differently (MIT Press)

Byung-Chul Han’s The Crisis of Narration and The Spirit of Hope (Polity Press), both translated by Daniel Steuer

Chengru He’s I Would Vanish Into Its Stronger Existence (Wet Cement Press)

Garielle Lutz’s Backwardness (Short Flight / Long Drive Books)

Catherine Malabou’s Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy (Polity Press), translated by Carolyn Shread

Laura Marris’s The Age of Loneliness (Graywolf Press)

Ben Masters’s The Flitting: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Butterflies (Tin House)

Maggie Nelson’s Like Love: Essays and Conversations (Graywolf Press)

Lance Olsen’s Shrapnel: Contemplations (Anti-Oedipus Press)

David Rothenberg’s Secret Sounds of Ponds (Roof Books)

Shze-Hui Tjoa’s The Story Game (Tin House)

Tony Trigilio’s The Punishment Book: The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood), Book 4 (BlazeVOX)

(Image: Yves Tanguy’s Time and Again (1942))

John Madera is the author of Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024) and Nomad Science (Spuyten Duyvil Press, forthcoming in 2026). His fiction is also published in Conjunctions, Salt Hill, Hobart, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His poetry is also published in elimae, Sixth Finch, Contrapuntos, and elsewhere. His criticism is published in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, two-time New York State Council on the Arts awardee John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.

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