August 20, 2009
Guest Post by Lauren Elkin: What I’m Reading in Hong Kong
By Jane Ciabattari
August 20, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
August 18, 2009
By Eric Banks
At the group blog Crooked Timber, a number of writers, including Michael Bérubé, Russell Jacoby, and NBCC board member Scott McLemee, recently conducted an on-line seminar on the occasion of
August 14, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
A new online magazine, The Collagist, launches Saturday. The first issue has original fiction by Gordon Lish, among others; an essay by Ander Monson, poetry, and four book reviews—including one
August 12, 2009
By Eric Banks
I haven’t been clocking the reviews section of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. I guess that will have to change, though. Book SA notes that the Nobel Laureate
August 11, 2009
By Eric Banks
Yesterday was the 99th birthday of the Italian author, filmmaker, and erstwhile architect Aldo Buzzi. At the House of Mirth, NBCC board member James Marcus recalls visiting Buzzi in Milan
August 10, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
NBCC member Anis Shivani is a fiction writer, poet, and critic in Houston, Texas. In this guest post, which originally appeared at Huffington Post, he discusses Chris Anderson’s Free: The
August 5, 2009
By Eric Banks
This summer I’ve been doing something I’ve always wanted to do, which is to listen to Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on my iPod. I’ve read lots
August 1, 2009
By Eric Banks
NBCC board member Geeta Sharma-Jensen has announced that she has accepted the buyout offer from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: “The Web? Broadband? What were those? What did we know then about
July 29, 2009
By Craig Morgan Teicher
Like other busy people I tend to read more during the summer, though rarely do I take on one big project (every Shax play, all of Musil’s The Man Without
July 28, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
NBCC member Janice Harayda gives terrific pointers about shifting from print (she was the Cleveland Plain Dealer books editor) to blogging when she started her One-Minute Book Reviews in late