Google now offers a magazine search function. Which reminded us to check out the year-end global top 10 list of the billions of Google searches over the past year, which

NBCC member Cliff Garstang ranks the winners and Special Mentions in this years’ Pushcart Prize anthology, just out. Pushcart founder Bill Henderson, winner of an NBCC Sandrof award for lifetime

Jean-Marie Gustave LeClezio, who delivered this lecture upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature earlier this week, focused in part on the importance of the book:  “There is a great

Kerry Wood, a longtime friend of John Leonard’s, sent us this reminiscence: It has all been said—everywhere but in the New York Times Book Review section where I expected to

Scott McLemee, reviewing “The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory” (Oxford University Press) by Torkel Klingberg, ponders information overload:”…it sometimes feels like one’s brain is being

From the Academy of American Poets, poems about gratitude and Thanksgiving. Labels: Poetry

It’s hard to judge how many writers have been displaced, dislocated and disoriented by Katrina and aftermath. I’ve been keeping track of some of them via our series, Thinking About