January 27, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Sadly, sadly, we note that John Updike died this morning. He had been ill with lung cancer. His work has been honored for many decades by the National Book Critics
January 27, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
National Book Critics Circle board member James Marcus interviewed John Updike in 1998 about his “Bech” novels. In 1970 John Updike unleashed his Jewish American doppelgänger upon an unsuspecting public
January 23, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Upcoming National Book Critics Circle events in New York City. Please join us. (If you can make it, let us know.) January 23, 2009, 7 pm, Housing Works Bookstore Café,
January 22, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Check out former NBCC board member (and former chair of the NBCC fiction awards panel) Lev Grossman’s take on whither publishing (and whither the novel):“New Publishing is a riotous jungle:
January 21, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
While book coverage shrinks, the Columbia Journalism Review is expanding. Today they launched a new feature called Page Views—additional, online-only book coverage. First up: James Marcus’s interview with David Denby
January 21, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Signatures are being gathered for a petition to save the Washington Post’s Book World. The text is below. If you have written for Book World—or simply understand how important it
January 19, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
David L. Ulin on David Denby’s “Snark:”: “…the problem with Snark is that Denby doesn’t take it far enough. It’s not snark, after all, that is the problem so much
January 16, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Responding to our question about the speculation that the Washington Post Book World‘s days are numbered, new Washington Post honcho Marcus Brauchli tells us, “We are absolutely committed to book
January 15, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Poet W.D. Snodgrass, 83, who died Tuesday of cancer at his farmhouse in tiny Erieville, N.Y., south of Syracuse, was revising his poetry even in the last week of his
January 14, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
The following essay by National Book Critics Circle member Afaa M. Weaver on John Edgar Wideman’s “Brothers and Keepers,” a finalist for the 1984 NBCC Award in Nonfiction, is part