What author who wrote "Jesus' Son" beat out Mischa Berlinksi for 2007 National Book Award?
Fieldwork (novel) Fieldwork is a 2007 novel by American journalist Mischa Berlinski. It was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and was a finalist that year for the National Book Award, eventually losing out to Denis Johnson's "Tree of Smoke".
Melvin Jules Bukiet Melvin Jules Bukiet is an author and literary critic. He has written a number of novels, including "Sandman's Dust", "After", "While the Messiah Tarries", "Signs and Wonders", "Strange Fire", and "A Faker's Dozen". He edited the collections "Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex", "Nothing Makes You Free", and "Scribblers on the Roof". He won the 1992 Edward Lewis Wallant Award.