What Can a Book Review Do for a Book?

By Jane Ciabattari

Here's what NBCC board member and 2009 criticism finalist Stephen Burt had to say about book reviews at Talk of the Stacks, the November 3 reading by NBCC awardees in

Fiction Writers/Book Critics: What Happens When You Do Both?

By Jane Ciabattari

Thursday, November 11th at 7pm The Center for Fiction,17 East 47th Street, New York, NY rsvp: http://www.centerforfiction.org/events/#rsvp Should novelists review other people’s novels?  Does their own experience in front of

Report from Minneapolis NBCC Reading, Video Coming

By Jane Ciabattari

National Book Critics Circle awards winner in criticism Eula Biss, NBCC criticism finalist (and NBCC board member) Stephen Burt, NBCC  fiction finalist Marlon James, and Graywolf editor Jeff Shotts drew

Peter Matthiessen & 10 Happy Whiting Awardees

By Jane Ciabattari

For 26 years the Whiting Writers’ Awards have provided a giddy moment in the literary calendar. Each year ten winners, nominated and selected without their knowing it, are invited to