The pace accelerates as Sam Zell, new owner of the Tribune Company, continues to dismantle the news organizations built over years. In what Tribune employees are calling Black Monday, highly
July 15, 2008
Trib-ulations
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Critical Mass
July 11, 2008
Summer Reading Notes: Maureen N. McLane
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Re-reading Lorrie Moore’s “Birds of America,” since there’s been a flurry of reviews of her new “Collected Stories.” A few of the stories felt brittler, more same-y than I’d remembered-some
July 10, 2008
ACROSS THE POND
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Blogging at The Guardian, critic John Sutherland offers his perspective on the decline in book-review pages: “Does no-one want to be the Sam Johnson de nos jours? Put another way—why
July 10, 2008
CRITICAL LIBRARY: MICHAEL WOOD
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The National Book Critics Circle regularly posts a list of five books a critic believes reviewers should have in their libraries. We recently heard from Michael Wood, Professor of English
July 10, 2008
Newsflash: Salman Rushdie Wins “Booker of Bookers”
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”Midnight’s Children” was chosen as the best ever, best of the best by the Booker judges. Rushdie’s most recent good deed for the NBCC here. Labels: Industry News
July 7, 2008
News from the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Book Editor
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NBCC member Karen Long, book editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, shares this news for reviewers: Dear Colleagues, For three years, it’s been my joy to help unleash your opinions
July 6, 2008
Summer Reading: Jane Ciabattari
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After two years tethered to the Internet, due to a couple of big writing projects, I’m heading to upstate New York later this month to spend a week as fiction
July 4, 2008
SUMMER READING: MARY ANN GWINN
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It was a long, cold, wet spring, here in Seattle. Even the most stoic among us in the far northwest corner have taken to muttering about buying up distressed properties
July 3, 2008
CRITICAL LIBRARY: GEOFFREY O’BRIEN
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The National Book Critics Circle regularly posts a list of five books a critic believes reviewers should have in their libraries. We recently heard from writer and critic Geoffrey O’Brien.
June 30, 2008
In Retrospect: Kevin Prufer on D.A. Powell
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The following essay by NBCC board member Kevin Prufer, editor of Pleiades, on D.A. Powell’s “Cocktails,” a finalist for the 2004 NBCC award in poetry, is part of the NBCC’s