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This summer, we’re asking past winners of and finalists for NBCC awards what books they’re excited to read. Below, Matthea Harvey, a 2007 NBCC Poetry finalist, weighs in. Click here

This summer, we’re asking past winners of and finalists for NBCC awards what books they’re excited to read. Below, Martha A. Sandweiss, a recent NBCC finalist in biography, weighs in. 

Critical Mass has been querying writers all summer to see what they're reading. Here's what two-time Criticism finalist Nelson George had to say: I’ve been preparing to write a crime

Critical Mass has been querying writers all summer to see what they're reading. Here's what 2008 Criticism finalist Richard Brody had to say: An unusual run of work has cut

A book critic has so little time to devote to so many books that he can start to feel perpetually, hopelessly behind, like a college student staring despondently at a

This summer I’m diving back into poetry. Contemporary poetry. A book a day. Glorious, atopical immersion, without worry, territorialism, or bondage to task. Last week I read Mina Pam Dick’s

Now that my teaching year has ended, I’ve turned to the new Milkweed volume called Views from the Loft, edited by Daniel Slager, a collection of nifty and brief pieces

After reading quite a lot of fiction by younger writers for The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 issue, I’m reading a few new books in galleys—novels by Jonathan Franzen (Freedom) and

  (photo: Marion Ettlinger)   What I look forward to reading this summer—even though it seems summer’s just about over (if July comes this week, can September be far behind?):