March 13, 2012
By David Varno
March 8, 2012 at the New School, New York, NY. Video courtesy of Paige Zelinsky Digital Galleys/Digital Catalogues/Digital Everything: How Publishers Are Interacting with Reviewers Today, with: Katie
March 10, 2012
By David Varno
March 7, 2012, The New School, New York, NY Video courtesy Chelsey Philpot Welcome from Robert Polito, Director of Writing Programs at the New School, and introduction from
March 9, 2012
By David Varno
March 8, 2012 at Tishman Auditorium, The New School, New York, NY Video courtesy of Chelsey Philpot Welcome from Robert Polito, Director of Writing Programs at The New School,
March 7, 2012
By Jane Ciabattari
Congratulations to NBCC members with new jobs/blogs/columns! Tree Swenson, who has been the Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets for the past ten years, is moving to Seattle,
February 22, 2012
By Mark Athitakis
Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset, who brought works by Henry Miller, William S. Burroughs, Samuel Beckett, Malcolm X, and many other authors and filmmakers to mass audiences, has died at
February 17, 2012
By Jane Ciabattari
The National Book Critics Circle mourns the loss of unparalleled reporter/author Anthony Shadid, who died last night, apparently of an asthma attack, while reporting in Syria. Shadid was a finalist
January 24, 2012
By Jane Ciabattari
The Chicago Tribune is re-introducing its Sunday book review on February 26 as a 24-page stand-alone publication with reviews, interviews, and short fiction. A sample will go to 100,000 subscribers
January 20, 2012
By NBCC
On Friday the 25 members of the National Book Critics Circle board voted to issue this statement of support for Salman Rushdie, who was forced to cancel his scheduled appearance
January 2, 2012
By Mark Athitakis
Happy New Year! A few more lists looking back at 2011, as 2012 begins: Karen R. Long lists the year’s best books at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Gina Webb offers
December 18, 2011
By David Biespiel
Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright, writer, poet, and critic who became Czechoslovakia's first democratically elected president after leading the 1989 “Velvet Revolution” which took place in December in Prague