Announcements

WE hope you'll join us at 5:00 Sunday for the Name That Author panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival, which has been moved to the St. Francis Screening Room, 180

The Next Decade in Book Culture Start: September 21, 6 p.m. End: September 21, 7:15 p.m. Venue: Johnson Center Cinema, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia As part of Fall for

Join the National Book Critics Circle at Lit Crawl NYC on Saturday September 11, 2010, at 8 pm. Details here. Follow up with the NBCC “Name that Author” contest at

Lit Quake's NYC Lit Crawl Presents: National Book Critics Revise and Recant Start: September 11, 2010 8:15 pm End: September 11, 2010 9:00 pm Venue: White Slab Palace Address: 77

Great news! It's official. The National Book Critics Circle was among those awarded grants for access to artistic excellence in literature yesterday by the National Endowment for the Arts. This

The annual Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism, devoted to the support and encouragement of emerging critics, was awarded on Saturday, April 17, at the Conference on the Future of Criticism

Congratulations to Eleanor Ross Taylor, who has received the Poetry Foundation's $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievment. Her collection Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960-2008 (LSU Press)

Tune in on Sunday to BookTV to see the taped broadcast of the NBCC Awards ceremony. For the truly ambitious, the broadcast airs at 6 AM (EST) Sunday, March 28,

Diana Athill's Somewhere Towards the End won the National Book Critics Circle award in autobiography last week. At the awards ceremony on March 11, her W.W. Norton editor, Tom Mayer,