Critical Mass

I stopped by the Montgomery Place farmstand up the Hudson near Bard College yesterday to buy white peaches and Saturn peaches and zucchini blossoms still warm from the fields. At

To encourage and cultivate young reviewers and critics under the age of thirty, the Virginia Quarterly Review is holding a “Young Reviewers Contest” in September 2008. The prize for the

NBCC board member and Critical Mass blogger Rigoberto Gonzalez has won the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award for his collection, “Other Fugitives and Other Strangers.” The judge was

NBCC member Chris Watson sends this dispatch from Santa Cruz, California: For over 30 years, I reviewed books, interviewed authors and submitted my Sunday book columns to the features editor

At the Huffington Post, Lissa Warren isn’t buying the idea that blogs are adequately replacing the traditional newspaper review. Labels: Book Reviewing, Huffington Post, Lissa Warren

In Publisher’s Weekly, editor Sara Nelson looks in on the situation at the LA Times Book Review and talks with David Ulin: “Editorially and aesthetically, we are going to be

In his Intellectual Affairs column at Inside Higher Ed, NBCC board member Scott McLemee laments the continued evisceration of book-review sections. Labels: Book Reviewing, Hartford Courant, Industry News, Los Angeles

More lousy news from the land of newspaper book-review sections: PW reports that NBCC member Carole Goldberg, books editor at the Hartford Courant since 2002, has been let go as