June 9, 2018
By Jane Ciabattari
Please join us for the eighth annual National Book Critics Circle/Zyzzyva cocktail party, hosted by NBCC VP/Online and former President Jane Ciabattari and Zyzzyva's Editor in Chief Laura Cogan and
June 7, 2018
By Julia M. Klein
NBCC member Julia M. Klein’s talk for a Book Expo America panel on May 30 on “The Crisis in Book Reviewing: Disappearing Space, Disappearing Pay.” (Below, NBCC President Kate Tuttle,
May 30, 2018
By Admin
We're delighted to announce the NBCC Emerging Critics: July 1, 2018-July 1, 2019. This year’s class of emerging critics are recognized by a fellowship named in honor of the late
May 15, 2018
By Jane Ciabattari
The Crisis in Book Reviewing: Disappearing Space, Disappearing Pay Date: May 30, 2018, 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM Location: Book Expo America, Jacob Javits Center: 1E10 Over the past 10
May 1, 2018
By admin
National Book Critics Circle members pop up at book festivals and events all over the country. Most recently, on a 10 a.m. panel at the Bay Area Book Festival in
April 4, 2018
By Walton Muyumba
Carlin Romano, criticism committee chair, presented the award to Carina Chocano for You Play the Girl, with this citation by Walton Muyumba. You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies,
March 31, 2018
By Elizabeth Taylor
Nonfiction committee chair Mary Ann Gwinn presented the award to Frances FitzGerald for The Evangelicals. How Donald Trump, a three-times-married libertine, won the presidency with the support of evangelical
March 30, 2018
By Elizabeth Taylor
NBCC biography committee chair Elizabeth Taylor, presented this citation to Caroline Fraser, author of Prairie Fires. In her extraordinary Prairie Fires,Caroline Fraser has brilliantly recast our understanding of Laura Ingalls
March 29, 2018
By Yahdon Israel
Poetry committee chair Tess Taylor presented the citation to winner Layli Long Soldier for Whereas. In her audacious, unapologetic debut Whereas, Lakota poet and artist Layli Long Soldier writes about “dual citizenship”—as a
March 28, 2018
By Marion Winik
Laurie Hertzel, chair of the autobiography committee, presented the award for Nine Continents, by Xiaolu Guo, to her Grove editor, Amy Hundley Xiaolu Guo was born in Communist China to