July 15, 2009
By Barbara Hoffert
After 35 Years, Now What! Doctorow and Ashbery Help National Book Critics Circle Celebrate 35th Year at WNYC’s Jerome L. Greene Performance Space For 35 years, the National Book Critics
June 4, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Marilynne Robinson, NBCC fiction award winner for “Gilead” and finalist for “Home,” has won the Orange prize for Fiction for her third novel, “Home.”
May 30, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Today, the NBCC is offering a panel at the BEA: Book Reviews 2010: What Will They Look Like? As one newspaper towns go to no newspaper towns, as bloggers get
May 20, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Short stories were championed throughout the evening at PEN American Center’s awards ceremony last night at CUNY’s Graduate Center on Fifth Avenue. Laura Furman, editor of the annual O. Henry
May 4, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
By Saturday night, the week-long PEN World Voices Festival felt like a village where 160 writers from 41 countries, speaking 18 languages, gathered, bringing New York’s cultural vortex close to
April 30, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
“Evolution/Revolution,” PEN World Voices Festival’s opening night last night, offered wordspinning by storytellers in many languages with translation in text scrolling onstage. And new PEN president Kwame Anthony Appiah welcoming
March 13, 2009
By Barbara Hoffert
For immediate release On Thursday, March 12, 2009, at a crowded ceremony at the New School in New York, the National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of its book
March 2, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
National Book Critics Circle’s annual March events, held in New York City next week. Awards finalists here: 30 Books in 30 Days, NBCC Board Members review the finalists here. WEDNESDAY,
January 26, 2009
By Barbara Hoffert
On Saturday, January 24, at a packed event at the Housing Works Bookstore Café in Manhattan, the National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for its forthcoming book awards, covering
January 26, 2009
By Scott McLemee
Lest anyone imagine the Good Old Days of book reviewing were ever all that great, we should consider the complaints lodged by the late Nona Balakian in an essay from