In conjunction with the National Book Critics Circle, students of The New School Graduate Writing Program interview the 2012 honorees for the NBCC Awards. The interviews are hosted by American Vanguard, a publishing imprint of the New School Writing Program.
Click below for interviews with the nonfiction candidates.
Katherine Boo, author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, interviewed by Allison Kirkland.
Steve Coll, author of Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, interviewed by Christopher Hermelin.
Jim Holt, author of Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story, interviewed by Marina Petrova.
David Quammen, author of Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, interviewed by Latria Graham.
Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, interviewed by Diane T. Masucci