May 8, 2009
By Eric Banks
At the Columbia Journalism Review, NBCC board member Scott McLemee has a fascinating article on the pioneering reviewer Hubert Harrison (thanks James Marcus for the tip!): “Book reviewers for newspapers
May 5, 2009
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
May 2, 2009
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
April 30, 2009
By Craig Morgan Teicher
Poet Craig Arnold is missing on an island in the South of Japan. Please read this post at the Poetry Foundation blog to see how you can help.
April 30, 2009
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
April 30, 2009
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,
April 28, 2009
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
April 27, 2009
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.
April 27, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
NBCC member Leora Skolkin-Smith sent this report on the conversation between Adam Gopnik and new Nobel laureate J.M. Clézio, a prelude to the PEN World Voices Festival running April 27
April 23, 2009
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