The novel "Hell of a Book" went from a publisher's discard pile a decade ago to National Book Award winner this week.

Author Jason Mott won the fiction prize for his account of a Black author on a book tour whose life intersects with a Black boy in the rural South.

Today on All Sides Weekend: Books, host Christopher Purdy and guests discuss the National Book Award winners and offer other reading recommendations.

Guests:

Kassie Rose, WOSU book critic
Kris Hickey, youth services manager at the Whetstone branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library
Nick White, author and assistant professor of creative writing at Ohio State University