"Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" named a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize

I'm beginning to realize why Billy Lynn's walk is so long: because he's competing for so many prizes. Ben Fountain's celebrated novel about a group of Iraq War vets -- "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" -- has already made the rounds among the big literary contests (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award). But it continues to show up in smaller contests. Just a few days ago, it was named a finalist for the So...