México, Mexico

By Rigoberto Gonzalez

Since this is Cinco de Mayo week at every Mexican and pseudo-Mexican restaurant in the city, it’s also the week I keep the blinders on. After all these years I

How Many Economists Does it Take……?

By Jane Ciabattari

A huge crowd stormed the doors early at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Thursday evening, eager to hear the megastar lineup (constellated by PEN World Voices and the New

Critical Mass, Three Years and Counting

By Jane Ciabattari

Critical Mass launched three years ago this month (April 2006 archived on old blog here). Initial Critical Mass blogmistress Rebecca Skloot’s opening salvo on April 21, 2006 noted that each

UPDATE: Poet Craig Arnold Missing

By Jane Ciabattari

+++Update from Don Share of the Poetry Foundation:4/30 at 12:30 pm EST: The police will extend the search for three days. They will add 55 people (exact number NOT confirmed,

Bookslut Founder Heading to Berlin

By Jane Ciabattari

Jessa Crispin, former NBCC board member and founder of Bookslut, is leaving Chicago for Berlin on July 1. She explained her move yesterday on her blog , noting Bookslut’s 7th

Le Clézio at 92nd Street Y

By Eric Banks

At Words Without Borders, NBCC board member James Marcus reports on 2008 Nobel Prize winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio’s conversation with Adam Gopnik.

Dexter Filkins from Kabul

By Jane Ciabattari

Dexter Filkins, who won this year’s National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction for “The Forever War,” was honored again last night by the Overseas Press Club, which gave him