Lauren Myracle has withdrawn Shine from NBA consideration.

After the National Book Foundation's Chime/Shine screw-up, they did the classy thing and kept all six books on the list.

It was the best option—rather than making the whole thing MORE excruciatingly embarrassing by turning it into some big brouhaha, they admitted that there'd been an error and just went forward*.

OR SO WE THOUGHT.

Because THEN, the NBF quietly asked Lauren Myracle to withdraw, to "preserve the integrity of the award".

So she did.

This entire situation, in a word, sucks.

And from what I can see, all of the suckage has come from one direction.

So, YAY YOU, NBF! Way to go!

You do realize that in your effort to "preserve the integrity of the award", every news article about the rest of this award season is going to revisit this, right?

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*Even if they'd decided to pull the book then and there, at least they'd have made a decision and stuck with it. Instead, they decided to go with Plan C: LOOKING LIKE COMPLETE TOOLS.