Patti Smith performing in Finland, 2007

Patti Smith, Ann Patchett and more book reviews and news

By Carolyn Kellogg

Claude Peck reviewed Patti Smith's Year of the Monkey for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Priscilla Gilman reviewed Ann Patchett's The Dutch House for the Boston Globe. Heller McAlpin reviewed Patchett’s The Dutch House and Leslie

Video: NBCC at AWP with Ben Fountain and Amy Tan

By NBCC

Watch Ben Fountain and Amy Tan read and discuss their work with NBCC Vice President/Online Jane Ciabattari, at AWP in Seattle on Feburary 28, 2014. Introduced by Jill Christman, Midwest Representative,

Video: NBCC 2013 Finalists Reading

By NBCC

Video by Kevin Kino Twenty of the 2013 finalists read on the night before the awards ceremony, along with Anthony Marra, winner of the John Leonard prize. Following Marra, readers