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
January 25, 2009
By Eric Banks
Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards Announced On Saturday, January 24, at a packed event at the Housing Works Bookstore Café in Manhattan, the National Book Critics Circle
January 25, 2009
By Eric Banks
In this time of global connectedness, of strong interest in reading literature in translation and expanding the perspectives from which Americans view the world, the NBCC has named PEN American
January 23, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Upcoming National Book Critics Circle events in New York City. Please join us. (If you can make it, let us know.) January 23, 2009, 7 pm, Housing Works Bookstore Café,