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"   Photo: Pieter M. Van Hattem/Vistalux  Last night, the National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of its book awards for 2010, and there was a bit of an upset in the Fiction category. Though Jonathan Franzen&amp;#039;s 2010 novel Freedom landed him the cover of TIME, the night&amp;#039;s Fiction award instead went to Jennifer Egan for her novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad. The win marks the first major critical award for Egan, and should please critics who&amp;#039;ve recently pondered aloud about the lack of significantly regarded female novelists, and whether Freedom\u2014which builds a far-reaching story upon the crux of a family drama\u2014would have received the same level of attention had it been written by a woman. Franzen set off a media frenzy in 2001 after turning down Oprah&amp;#039;s invitation for his novel, The Corrections, to be included in her book club, for fear that the telltale Oprah seal would turn off male readers. They&amp;#039;ve since patched things up, and some copies of Freedom now boast the blue Oprah sticker. For a full list of the NBCC Award nominees and winners, click here. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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