Critical Mass

NBCC member Leora Skolkin-Smith reports on the conversations between New Republic Literary Editor Leon Wieseltier and Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua during the PEN World Voices Festival: What happens when one’s

This just in from an NBCC member who received it from Publishers Weekly’s reviews editor: Dear Reviewer, We are under constraints to reduce our expenses and must reduce the fee

Today, Wyatt Mason—NBCC member and winner of the Balakian award for excellence in reviewing—will go online at Harpers with his new blog, Sentences. I highly recommend taking a look and

Cool. Check out the libraries of Thomas Jefferson,Sylvia Plath, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Walker Percy and others, with more to come on LibraryThing.com. (Thanks to VeryShortList for the tip.)

According to this post on the Guardian blog, 73-year-old Dmitri Nabokov has finally decided to ignore his father’s testamentary instructions and prepare the novelist’s final, unfinished work, The Original of

An email message sent to the listserv of the Association of American University Presses by its current president, Sanford G. Thatcher, encourages AAUP members to contact newspaper editors to try

Question raised over at Publishing 2.0, should there be a web conservation movement? Scott Karp suggests, How to reduce noise on the web? Produce less content. Labels: Industry News

If you, like Steve Weinberg, are looking forward to reading “Dear American Airlines: A Novel,” by Jonathan Miles, you’ll be happy to know that the author is offering the book

Longtime NBCC member and former board member Steve Weinberg has had a big few months:  His new book, “Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John