As summer’s official start is upon us, some good news among NBCCers. Outgoing NBCC board member Marcela Valdes is a new Nieman, class of 2010, with an arts and culture
May 22, 2009
Celebratory Roundup!
By Jane Ciabattari
May 20, 2009
Short Story Center Stage at PEN Awards, Upstaging Sam Shepard, Cormac McCarthy, Even Natasha Wimmer
By Jane Ciabattari
Short stories were championed throughout the evening at PEN American Center’s awards ceremony last night at CUNY’s Graduate Center on Fifth Avenue. Laura Furman, editor of the annual O. Henry
May 19, 2009
Guest Post: Michael Lukas’s Summer Reading List
By Jane Ciabattari
NBCC member Michael Lukas, a finalist in the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Young Reviewers Contest last year (and a VQR blogger), sent word on what he’s looking forward to reading this
May 18, 2009
$1,000 Book Review Contest in Australia, How about the US?
By Jane Ciabattari
NBCC member Janice Harayda of One-Minute Book Reviews passes the word that The Australian Book Review is having a reviewing contest with a $1,000 prize. Entries only from reviewers living
May 12, 2009
Guest Post by Christopher Beha:The Critic and the Classics
By Jane Ciabattari
Christopher Beha is an editor at Harper’s Magazine. The Whole Five Feet, his memoir of reading the Harvard Classics, was released last week by Grove Press. He’s passed along to
May 11, 2009
Roundup 20
By Jane Ciabattari
NBCC Reads at The Daily Beast. VQR editor Ted Genoways makes a persuasive argument for university presses and journals, as the LSU press is in danger. Ben Greenman celebrates “Please
May 6, 2009
Richard Ford, Nam Le, in Conversation
By Jane Ciabattari
Sooner or later, a guy writing short stories in English is going to have to come up against Richard Ford, whose work from Rock Springs to A Multitude of Sins
May 4, 2009
PEN World Voices: Cabaret Night with Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, et al
By Jane Ciabattari
By Saturday night, the week-long PEN World Voices Festival felt like a village where 160 writers from 41 countries, speaking 18 languages, gathered, bringing New York’s cultural vortex close to
May 2, 2009
How Many Economists Does it Take……?
By Jane Ciabattari
A huge crowd stormed the doors early at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Thursday evening, eager to hear the megastar lineup (constellated by PEN World Voices and the New
April 30, 2009
Appiah, Rushdie, Danticat, et al Open PEN World Voices Fest
By Jane Ciabattari
“Evolution/Revolution,” PEN World Voices Festival’s opening night last night, offered wordspinning by storytellers in many languages with translation in text scrolling onstage. And new PEN president Kwame Anthony Appiah welcoming