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December 13, 2020
Board Candidate Statements
By David Varno
December 10, 2020
It’s Time to Run for the NBCC Board
By David Varno
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November 2, 2020
Leonard Prize 2020: Glitter Up the Dark
By David Varno
NBCC members: If you’d like to contribute a review of an eligible book for the 2020 Leonard Prize, write to NBCC board member Megan Labrise at labrise@gmail.com. Read the rest
August 27, 2020
An Existential Moment
By David Varno
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August 18, 2020
Information for Special Membership Meeting and more
By David Varno
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July 17, 2020
Report from 7/14 board meeting
By David Varno
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April 21, 2020
New reviews and more from the NBCC
By David Varno
Aside from April being crueler than usual this year, it’s still National Poetry Month, and many of our members wrote about the work of poets. Ron Slate reviewed Maps and Transcripts
March 9, 2020
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner: 2019 Fiction finalist
By David Varno
A number of novels have come out in recent years with a promise of having something to say about the American interior, whether through stories of opioid addiction, combat veterans,
March 6, 2020
Essays One by Lydia Davis: 2019 Criticism finalist
By David Varno
Davis’s exciting debut collection of nonfiction, ranging from craft lectures to essays about writers and artists to notes on the translation process, is a great gift to readers, particularly those
February 16, 2020
Out of the Shadows by Walt Odets: 2019 Nonfiction finalist
By David Varno
In a foreword to his sprawling, insightful examination of the challenges faced by three generations of gay men in the U.S., Odets writes that aside from his primary intended audience—gay