March 31, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Happy Birthday #90 to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, NBCC Sandrof awardee. Critical Mass on 50th anniversary of “Coney Island of the Mind” here. His most recent interview on Critical Mass here. Maureen
March 30, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Emily Warn on Anne Winters’s “The Key to the City,” a 1986 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry, is the newest installment in the National Book
March 30, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
The following essay by Emily Warn on Anne Winters’s “The Key to the City,” a 1986 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry, is part of the
March 26, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Salman Rushdie kicked off PEN World Voices Festival at the Instituto Cervantes in New York yesterday, remembering how the fest “began five years ago out of deep concern…that the conversation
March 20, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Dexter Filkins, whose “The Forever War” won the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction last week, has also won the Overseas Press Club‘s Cornelius Ryan award for best nonfiction
March 18, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Editor and Publisher reports that more than half of the top 30 newspaper Websites achieved double-digit increases over last year in February, with the Orlando Sentinel up 57 percent to
March 17, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
CJR [“Sleepless in Seattle”] talks to staffers at Hearst’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer as their publication ceases and a new “experiment” begins. Also, “All eyes are on Seattle,” says Scott Karp at
March 4, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
This year’s Balakian winner, Ron Charles, handicaps the National Book Critics Circle fiction awards, to be announced next Thursday evening, March 23, at the New School. Meanwhile, finalist M. Glenn
March 2, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
National Book Critics Circle’s annual March events, held in New York City next week. Awards finalists here: 30 Books in 30 Days, NBCC Board Members review the finalists here. WEDNESDAY,
February 22, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
A busy schedule over the next few weeks. Just a few of the offerings: Tuesday, February 24, 8 pm. “Global Correspondences,” a reading by Andre Acimen, Edward Albee, Anthony Appiah,