February 20, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers, is the publication of PEN American Center, winner of this year’s National Book Critics Circle Sandrof award for lifetime achievement. PEN America
February 11, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Doris Lessing, an NBCC finalist for memoir (and a Nobel laureate), recalls her mother putting her in charge of sitting hen on their “our farm in the old Southern Rhodesia,”
February 5, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Scott McLemee invokes Robertson Davies (“mind on fire”). In the Austin Statesman, Edward Nawotka finds Texas oilmen stories in Bryan Burrough’s The Big Rich “gossipy, engrossing.” All the NBCC finalists
February 3, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Newsweek’s Christopher Dickey, author of “Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force—The NYPD,” sat down with New York Police Commission Ray Kelly last night at the Overseas Press Club
February 1, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Marcus Brauchli, top editor at the Washington Post, responds to the petition from 122 Book World contributors, including many NBCC members: Many thanks for your letter and for your loyalty
January 30, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Within a matter of hours, more than 100 authors and critics who had contributed to the Washington Post Book World signed a petition and sent letters of support to save
January 30, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Within a matter of hours,more than 100 authors and critics who had contributed to the Washington Post Book World signed a petition and sent letters of support to save Book
January 29, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Novelist and National Book Critics Circle member Roxana Robinson sent along this remembrance for Critical Mass: I don’t know when I started reading John Updike, but it was probably when
January 28, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
January 27, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
The National Book Critics Circle’s “In Retrospect” series continues with NBCC member Rayyan Al-Shawaf on Andrea Levy’s “Small Island,” which was a finalist for the NBCC fiction award in 2005.