What would Philip Roth do? This question, Ann Patchett said this week, is the running joke between her and her agent, as the writer sorts through the fluff of requests
February 16, 2009
What Would Philip Roth Do?
By NBCC
Critical Mass
February 9, 2009
2008 Fiction Finalist Home, by Marilynne Robinson
By NBCC
Each day leading up to the March 12 announcement of the 2008 NBCC awards, we highlight one of the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Ellen Heltzel discusses Marilynne Robinson’s
February 3, 2009
NYPD’s Ray Kelly: “Don’t Even Think of Attacking New York City”
By Jane Ciabattari
Newsweek’s Christopher Dickey, author of “Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force—The NYPD,” sat down with New York Police Commission Ray Kelly last night at the Overseas Press Club
February 1, 2009
Marcus Brauchli Responds to Petition from 122 Book World Contributors
By Jane Ciabattari
Marcus Brauchli, top editor at the Washington Post, responds to the petition from 122 Book World contributors, including many NBCC members: Many thanks for your letter and for your loyalty
January 30, 2009
WaPo Update 4: The Save Book World Petition
By Jane Ciabattari
Within a matter of hours, more than 100 authors and critics who had contributed to the Washington Post Book World signed a petition and sent letters of support to save
January 30, 2009
Save Book World Petition
By Jane Ciabattari
Within a matter of hours,more than 100 authors and critics who had contributed to the Washington Post Book World signed a petition and sent letters of support to save Book
January 29, 2009
Roxana Robinson Remembers John Updike
By Jane Ciabattari
Novelist and National Book Critics Circle member Roxana Robinson sent along this remembrance for Critical Mass: I don’t know when I started reading John Updike, but it was probably when
January 28, 2009
Buck Stops Here
By Eric Banks
At Old Hag, NBCC board member Lizzie Skurnick adds a blogger’s perpective on “the ‘buck up’ pushback to anyone lamenting the loss of the Book World in print.”
January 28, 2009
WaPo Update 3
By Jane Ciabattari
January 27, 2009
In Retrospect: Rayyan Al-Shawaf on Andrea Levy’s “Small Island”
By Jane Ciabattari
The National Book Critics Circle’s “In Retrospect” series continues with NBCC member Rayyan Al-Shawaf on Andrea Levy’s “Small Island,” which was a finalist for the NBCC fiction award in 2005.