April 30, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Critical Mass launched three years ago this month (April 2006 archived on old blog here). Initial Critical Mass blogmistress Rebecca Skloot’s opening salvo on April 21, 2006 noted that each
April 30, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
+++Update from Don Share of the Poetry Foundation:4/30 at 12:30 pm EST: The police will extend the search for three days. They will add 55 people (exact number NOT confirmed,
April 28, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Jessa Crispin, former NBCC board member and founder of Bookslut, is leaving Chicago for Berlin on July 1. She explained her move yesterday on her blog , noting Bookslut’s 7th
April 27, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
NBCC member Leora Skolkin-Smith sent this report on the conversation between Adam Gopnik and new Nobel laureate J.M. Clézio, a prelude to the PEN World Voices Festival running April 27
April 23, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Dexter Filkins, who won this year’s National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction for “The Forever War,” was honored again last night by the Overseas Press Club, which gave him
April 19, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Balakian winner Sam Anderson sets up a duel between this year’s first-ever National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award dual winners Juan Felipe Herrera and August Kleinzahler here. Geeta Sharma-Jensen drops
April 17, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Just cast my Webby votes for favorites like The Daily Beast (go, Book Beast!), Truthdig (for the book reviews alone), Kurt Andersen’s VSL (often first buzz on books like Geoff
April 13, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
John Ashbery, winner of the first National Book Critics Circle award in poetry in 1975, was center stage at The New School at this year’s NBCC awards finalists’ reading, reading
April 8, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Twitter founder Biz Stone twitted by Stephen Colbert. New York Times Skimmer prototype, via Sree Sreenivisan tweet. Meanwhile, check out this Short Storyspreadsheet. Carolyn Kellogg on the 100th anniversary of
April 3, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
The Association of American Publishers is in search of a new slogan to inspire reading and giving books as gifts, They’re offering a $500 gift certificate as the prize for