July 21, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Dan Wickett, the innovative Michigan-based cofounder of Dzanc Books, is publishing a “Best of the Web 2009” print anthology this week, with a batch of the authors guest blogging all
July 15, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Parties for the summer issue of Zoetrope:All Story this month included a Sunday afternoon up in Geyserville at the Francis Ford Coppola Winery. Sunshine, vineyards, distant mountains, generous complimentary pours
July 13, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Wordnik is a combo dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, and OED—self-dubbed, “an ongoing project devoted to discovering all the words and everything about them. More than 1.7 million words, and more than
July 2, 2009
By Eric Banks
Is there any digital application that can resist the siren song of networking? In Inside Higher Education, NBCC board member Scott McLemee recovers from digital overload to investigate Webnotes, Zotero
July 2, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Ernest Hemingway’s classic posthumously published 1964 memoir “A Moveable Feast,” which inspired Americans to trek and trist in Paris and write in cafes, has been reissued with new remorseful morsels.
June 29, 2009
By Eric Banks
Maybe this isn’t the best way to respond to a somewhat negative review: Still Life with Book Maven reports on Alice Hoffman’s response to Roberta Silman’s review in the Boston
June 1, 2009
By Scott McLemee
Now a few months shy of its second birthday, The Barnes & Noble Review has established itself as an important source of online critical commentary on new books, publishing about
May 22, 2009
By Eric Banks
How reviewers are adapting to the new digital order has been one of the burning themes among NBCC members for the past year. NBCC board member Scott McLemee sends along
May 18, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
NBCC member Janice Harayda of One-Minute Book Reviews passes the word that The Australian Book Review is having a reviewing contest with a $1,000 prize. Entries only from reviewers living
May 15, 2009
By Eric Banks
In this series, the National Book Critics Circle will post a list of five books a critic believes reviewers should have in their libraries. We recently heard from former Balakian