September 12, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Please join the National Book Critics Circle for two events this weekend in New York City. LIVE WEBCAST AND LIVE BLOGGINGPlease tune in to join a celebration of NBCC at
September 11, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
The following essay by NBCC board member and Balakian award winner Maureen N. McLane on John Ashbery’s “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” winner of the first NBCC Award in Poetry
September 10, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
National Book Critics Circle “Name that Author” contestBrooklyn Book Festival, September 13, 2009.12 pm on the main stageBrooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn Emcee: John Reed is book editor
September 10, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
NBCC member Chelsey Philpot sends us “A J-School Grad’s Lament” upon the 35th anniversary of the NBCC. She is editorial assistant at the HORN BOOK GUIDE. a PUBLISHERS WEEKLY reviewer
September 9, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the NBCC, board member Linda Wolfe provides this brief concise history of the NBCC—originally published in the Winter 2000 issue of the
September 7, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
After an overnight in Youngstown, Ohio (shoutout to the incredible cast and crew at Station Square restaurant), I’m thinking about the Monongahela Valley and the coming of a new underclass
September 4, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
At some point in Ohio the agricultural world is eclipsed by the industrial. For much of the twentieth century, coal coming from eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania fed the furnaces
September 2, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
I’ll be wrapping up my “on the road” series this week, with Toni Morrison’s Lorrain, Ohio, August Wilson’s Hill District of Pittsburgh, and “Knockemstiff.” But first: Granta has a Chicago
August 30, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
It was raining most of the way as I drove from Iowa City through Illinois to South Bend, Indiana. (The next day’s Chicago Tribune referred to “stunning” overnight storm totals,
August 28, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari