The author, most recently, of “Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights” says that more or less everything by Christopher Hitchens makes him laugh: “The laughter is what I miss most about the Hitch.”
The list, which has been narrowed down to six candidates, includes two works by American authors: Anne Tyler’s “A Spool of Blue Thread” and Hanya Yanagihara’s “A Little Life.” The winner will be announced on Oct. 13.
