April 24, 2012
By Mark Athitakis
The weeklong PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature kicks off next Monday, April 30, in New York. The National Book Critics Circle will be there, cosponsoring (along with the
April 19, 2012
By Mark Athitakis
Yesterday the Los Angeles Review of Books launched its brand-new website, moving fromTumblr to a robust, comments-enabled platform. LARB editor Tom Lutz answered some questions about the site last year
April 10, 2012
By Mark Athitakis
From left: Jane Smiley, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Jane Ciabattari, Jennifer Egan, Darin Strauss, Isabel Wilkerson (Credit: Robb Cohen Photography and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs) The National Book
April 3, 2012
By Jane Ciabattari
What’s your favorite comic novel? This NBCC Reads question sparked a LOL round-robin conversation to wrap up this year’s Tennessee Williams Festival at the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans. We
March 28, 2012
By Mark Athitakis
This year's NBCC Awards will be broadcast three times this weekend on C-SPAN's BookTV. Here are the dates (all times Eastern): Saturday, March 31, 8 a.m. Sunday, April 1, 4:30
March 8, 2012
By David Varno
NBCC Board member and poetry committee chair Rigoberto Gonzalez announced the 2011 winner for autobiography: Mira Bartók, The Memory Palace (Free Press) Finalists are: Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names
March 8, 2012
By David Varno
NBCC Board member and biography committee chair Benjamin Moser announced the 2011 winner for biography: John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life (Penguin Press) Finalists are: Mary
March 8, 2012
By David Varno
NBCC Board member and poetry committee chair Carlin Romano announced the 2011 winner for criticism: Geoff Dyer, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews (Graywolf) Finalists
March 8, 2012
By David Varno
NBCC Board member and fiction committee chair Laurie Muchnick announced the 2011 winner for fiction: Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision (Lookout Books) Finalists include: Teju Cole, Open City (Random House)
March 8, 2012
By David Varno
NBCC Nonfiction chair Karen Long presented the 2011 winner for nonfiction: Maya Jasanoff, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War (Knopf) Finalists are: Amanda Foreman, A World on