Critical Mass

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 Richard B.

“If you recant a blurb,” asked Ron Hogan at GalleyCat last week, “does anybody really care?” My impression so far is, not really. If there is nothing else to learn

Speaking of creative book publicity, author Sloane Crosley (known to many NBCC members as uber-publicist at Vintage/Random House) has created a very unique website for her first book.  It features,

Junot Diaz’s “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” which won this year’s NBCC award in fiction, has also won the Pulitzer in fiction. NBCC member Gregg Barrios saw it

NBCC Sandrof award winner Bill Henderson, founder and editor of the Pushcart Press, invoked the memories of two Rays—Raymond Carver and Ray Smith—as he introduced readings from the Pushcart Prize

The freestanding Sunday newspaper supplement devoted to book reviews is now—with a very few exceptions—a thing of the past. When a paper does devote a page or two to literary

NBCC member Jon Wiener’s interview with Peter Carey for Dissent opens the door on an author’s attitude toward critics who reveal too much: Q. In “His Illegal Self,” the year

NBCC member Lauren Elkin,a PhD candidate in English literature at the Université de Paris VII and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, reports again this week