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Checking in with NBCC member Dylan Foley, who has been writing interviews for the book section of the Newark Star-Ledger since 2001. Here’s his report on the changes:  “The Star-Ledger

After the gloomy notices on Friday of rumored cutbacks in book review pages in the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune—as well as the apparent demise of the Newark Star-Ledger

Yikes! In today’s Publisher’s Weekly, Rachel Deahl reports on new fears of further cutbacks to the review sections of the Chicago Tribune and the LA Times. With Sam Zell, the

For those of you with shortened attention spans: a friend is writing his novel on Twitter. A plot twist in every tweet. One editor at a major publishing house expects

Meanwhile, over on Red Room, “Book Launch 2.0” video by Dennis M. Cass, who bills himself as a “scatter-brained, funny creative nonfiction and fiction writer with a heart and some

Jon Swift is not, I believe, a member of our guild, but he writes some of the liveliest and most incisive reviews around, and it is time that we honor

Imagine what would need to happen for university presses to return to what was once, long ago, their virtually exclusive mission: the publication of scholarly monographs intended for restricted, indeed

The following essay by Stephen Burt on A.R. Ammons, whose “A Coast of Trees” won the 1981 NBCC award in poetry, is part of the NBCC’s “In Retrospect” series on

Another wonderful independent book store bites the dust … Jay’s Bookstall has been an important fixture in Pittsburgh’s literary community for almost 50 years.  We’re sad to see it go,