August 27, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Driving from eastern Wyoming’s arid 9000-foot Rocky Mountain plateau to the humid green expanse of western Nebraska creates a sort of culture shock. Five hundreds miles in Europe would mean
August 26, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Morris Dickstein explains that the title of his new book does not come from a Bruce Springsteen song. John Freeman wonders if we should slow down…“The boundlessness of the Internet
August 25, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Still on the road, my antidote to 2009 so far, I’m driving I-80 from Sonoma County to New York City, stopping when I feel like it overnight, reading whatever strikes
August 23, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
I’m driving east from the Pacific to the Atlantic this week. I left Wells, Nevada, a sad town halfway to ghosting with closed-down casinos and motels Saturday morning, ate lunch
August 20, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
August 19, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
National Book Critics Circle “Name that Author” contest Brooklyn Book Festival, September 13, 2009.12 pm Noon on the main stage atBrooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201
August 14, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
A new online magazine, The Collagist, launches Saturday. The first issue has original fiction by Gordon Lish, among others; an essay by Ander Monson, poetry, and four book reviews—including one
August 10, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
NBCC member Anis Shivani is a fiction writer, poet, and critic in Houston, Texas. In this guest post, which originally appeared at Huffington Post, he discusses Chris Anderson’s Free: The
August 7, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Someday a scholar will write a book about the case. It will be about several generations in a New England family of French-Canadian descent named Kerouac. The book could easily
July 28, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
NBCC member Janice Harayda gives terrific pointers about shifting from print (she was the Cleveland Plain Dealer books editor) to blogging when she started her One-Minute Book Reviews in late