The Edgar Winner Group: 2009 Edgar Awards
I'm sorry, every year when the Edgar Awards are announced, I can't help but use the headline above. But here are the winners on the books side, as announced last night at the Mystery Writers of America banquet:
- Best Novel: Blue Heaven by C.J. Box
- Best First Novel (by an American): The Foreigner by Francie Lin
- Best Paperback Original: China Lake by Meg Gardiner
- Best Fact Crime: American Lightning by Howard Blum
- Best Critical/Biographical: Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories by Harry Lee Poe
- Best Young Adult: Paper Towns by John Green
- Best Juvenile: The Postcard by Tony Abbott
- Best Short Story: "Skinhead Central" by T. Jefferson Parker (in The Blue Religion)
Nice choices, from what I can tell: I liked The Foreigner a lot, and I know Jeff VanderMeer did too, and Paper Towns was definitely an in-house favorite here. See our full list of nominees and winners for this year and previous ones.
And, because I just can't resist, here are the Edgar Winter Group in all their full '70s glory. Man, they are just having a ball, and when Jackie Rogers Jr.--sorry, Edgar Winter--picks up the sax, and then suddenly appears at the drum set--all while still wearing that giant keyboard around his neck!--I just about lose it. "Bohemian Rhapsody"? Pfeh. Why is "Frankenstein" not recognized as the pinnacle of Western culture that it is? (The clip, by the way, is from The Old Grey Whistle Test, the BBC show collected in a fabulous set, of which I have to say this performance is the most fabulous.)
--Tom
Holly on May 03, 2009 at 01:15 PM
I usually love your additions to this Amazon blog, have to admit that I love this one too, even though you've gone beyond your usual boundaries of bizarreness! The Edgar Winters Group as a link to the Edgar awards?! Strange connection, but I'm sitting here laughing all the same.
Jeff on May 03, 2009 at 05:20 PM
It's very impressive video with a very cool song, but i don't think they match up.
John on May 03, 2009 at 06:19 PM
More cowbell. Freakin' awesome.