Roundup 16

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

PEN World Voices Festival #5

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

Roundup 15

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

Good News on the Newspaper Front

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

Seattle in the Spotlight

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

Roundup 14

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

Coming Up This Week and Next…

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,