Announcements

NBCC board member and former Balakian award winner Maureen N. McLane announced the winner of the 2007 NBCC award in criticism on Thursday, March 6, with these remarks: It has

This just in from Alf Wagermo, reporting on behalf of the Norwegian Critics’ Association, that country’s NBCC equivalent. On Thursday 6th of March the author Carl Frode Tiller was awarded

The Balakian Award for Excellence in Reviewing is named in honor of Nona Balakian,a founding member of the National Book Critics Circle and its first secretary. She worked on the

I became a book critic so I wouldn’t have to talk to anybody-especially not large crowds of intimidatingly literate people-so I’m mildly terrified right now. My wife is a psychologist,

The blog will be a bit quiet for the next few days:  Today the NBCC board of directors holds its first meeting of the 2008 season to welcome new board

NBCC member Photo credit: Miriam Berkley shot this group portrait of the winners of the NBCC 2007 awards. From left,Tim Jeal, NBCC award winner in biography for “Stanley: The Impossible

For those of you who couldn’t be at last night’s awards ceremony, here is John Freeman’s welcoming speech in his last evening as NBCC president: Thank you Robert, thank you

5:56 p.m.: Up here in the A.V. booth with Lev Grossman manning the slideshow, we’re gearing up to start the ceremony. I’ll be liveblogging the winners and posting some speeches

This is the thirtieth and last in a series of blog posts by NBCC board members covering the finalists for the NBCC awards. The awards will be announced on March