October 9, 2008
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PEN BEYOND MARGINS AWARDS: Celebrating Writers of ColorTuesday, October 147 p.m. Bruno Walter Auditorium:Library for the Performing ArtsEntrance at 111 Amsterdam Avenue Between W. 65th and W. 64th StreetsFree admission
October 8, 2008
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Geoffrey O’Brien, who was a finalist for the NBCC award in criticism for his “The Phantom Empire,“was one of the panelists for the September 12 NBCC “Merging Genres” panel at
October 8, 2008
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Meanwhile over at insidehighered.com, NBCC board member Scott McLemee gathers grist on the Nobel brouhaha. Labels: Industry News
October 7, 2008
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Robert Polito, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography for “Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson,” was one of the panelists for the September 12 NBCC
October 6, 2008
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Over at Tina Brown’s new The Daily Beast, named after the newspaper in Evelyn Waugh’s “Scoop,” Bill Clinton is recommending three books that help explain the Wall Street bailout, beginning
October 2, 2008
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On today’s WNYC broadcast of the Leonard Lopate Show, Philip Roth discussed his new novel Indignation, Communist national anthems (!?!)*, desultory oral sex, Newark (of course), and his work in
October 1, 2008
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Steven G. Kellman, longtime NBCC member, winner of the 2007 Nona Balakian award for excellence in reviewing, professor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio and
September 30, 2008
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Brooklyn Rail Books Editor, Author, NBCC member John Reed emceed the “Name that Author” game. Rules of the game: The clues were created by NBCC prez and cluemeister Jane Ciabattari,
September 30, 2008
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Contestants Don Breckenridge, James Marcus and Lizzie Skurnick playing the “Name that Author” game (Lizzie: “Donald Barthelme! James and I say Donald Barthelme!”) Labels: NBCC Dispatches, nbcc events
September 30, 2008
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“Name that Author” judges Dennis Loy Johnson, co-publisher of Melville House, and Jane Ciabattari, NBCC prez. Which contestant hit the buzzer first? There were lots of close calls. Labels: NBCC