January 27, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Sadly, sadly, we note that John Updike died this morning. He had been ill with lung cancer. His work has been honored for many decades by the National Book Critics
January 26, 2009
By Eric Banks
The New York Times is reporting that Sara Nelson has been laid off from Publishers Weekly in a round of “restructuring.”
January 25, 2009
By Lizzie Skurnick
A few questions about the dirty-white-boy books (and yes, as far as I can tell, the genre of the male midlife drugs-sex-and-losing-everything confessional is populated entirely by white guys.) Are
January 24, 2009
By Maureen McLane
and the WINNER IS………RON CHARLES!!!! all clap, clap clap!!
January 22, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Check out former NBCC board member (and former chair of the NBCC fiction awards panel) Lev Grossman’s take on whither publishing (and whither the novel):“New Publishing is a riotous jungle:
January 21, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
While book coverage shrinks, the Columbia Journalism Review is expanding. Today they launched a new feature called Page Views—additional, online-only book coverage. First up: James Marcus’s interview with David Denby
January 21, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Signatures are being gathered for a petition to save the Washington Post’s Book World. The text is below. If you have written for Book World—or simply understand how important it
January 19, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
David L. Ulin on David Denby’s “Snark:”: “…the problem with Snark is that Denby doesn’t take it far enough. It’s not snark, after all, that is the problem so much
January 17, 2009
By Eric Banks
When W.D. Snodgrass’s Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems was named a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle awards in poetry, Art Winslow wrote on the poet
January 16, 2009
By Eric Banks
God, let’s hope this isn’t true, but a reliable source at the Washington Post passes along the scary word that among the budgetary recommendations new editor Marcus Brauchli is making