July 21, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Dan Wickett, the innovative Michigan-based cofounder of Dzanc Books, is publishing a “Best of the Web 2009” print anthology this week, with a batch of the authors guest blogging all
July 15, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Parties for the summer issue of Zoetrope:All Story this month included a Sunday afternoon up in Geyserville at the Francis Ford Coppola Winery. Sunshine, vineyards, distant mountains, generous complimentary pours
July 13, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Wordnik is a combo dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, and OED—self-dubbed, “an ongoing project devoted to discovering all the words and everything about them. More than 1.7 million words, and more than
July 4, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
NBCC member Jonah Raskin, in Paris to do readings and radio interview for his new book, Field Days, sends this dispatch on what the French are reading this summer. Whenever
July 2, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Ernest Hemingway’s classic posthumously published 1964 memoir “A Moveable Feast,” which inspired Americans to trek and trist in Paris and write in cafes, has been reissued with new remorseful morsels.
June 29, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
James Marcus surfing a wave of attention for his booty-shaking Philip Roth sampling, drawn from his Roth interview last September: The Guardian, the NY Times, the German press…. Lynne Sharon
June 12, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Former NBCC president John Freeman moves from American editor to acting editor to editor of Granta. Freeman in the New York Observer here. Granta 106 is a special fiction issue.
June 4, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Marilynne Robinson, NBCC fiction award winner for “Gilead” and finalist for “Home,” has won the Orange prize for Fiction for her third novel, “Home.”
June 3, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
NBCC member Donna Seaman, the first book critic to guest edit the TriQuarterly, sends us this excerpt from “Strong Medicine,” her introductory essay to TriQuarterly #133. (The cover is by
May 30, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Today, the NBCC is offering a panel at the BEA: Book Reviews 2010: What Will They Look Like? As one newspaper towns go to no newspaper towns, as bloggers get