December 16, 2011
By Jane Ciabattari
Christopher Hitchens, who was a finalist for last year's NBCC award in autobiography for his boisterous memoir Hitch 22, reviewed here in our 31 Books in 31 Days series,died last
November 25, 2011
By Jane Ciabattari
Ruth Stone, won the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry for her 1999 collection Ordinary Words, died on November 19 at 96.
November 16, 2011
By Jane Ciabattari
New job for Parul Sehgal, this year's Balakian winner for excellence in reviewing (she's on tap to announce the 2011 winner on January 21 at Artists Space). She's left PW,
October 26, 2011
By Jane Ciabattari
Former NBCC board member and Salon founder/book columnist Laura Miller talks to the Rumpus today about reviewing, YA fantasy fiction, what she's looking forward to reading (Colson Whitehead, Jeffrey Eugenides,
October 21, 2011
By Jane Ciabattari
What's your favorite comic novel? Novelist Beth Gutcheon chose Evelyn Waugh's first novel, and explained why, noting that Catch-22 and Lucky Jim also were first novels. Parul Sehgal, this year's
October 20, 2011
By Jane Ciabattari
The third and last act in the NBCC's Urban Mirrors: New York, New York event at the New School was Darin Strauss, who won this year's NBCC award in autobiograpy
October 11, 2011
By Jane Ciabattari
The second act in “Urban Mirrors: New York, New York” at the New School on September 23, in which NBCC finalists and award winners talked about how the city inspires
September 28, 2011
By Mark Athitakis
How much is a memoirist allowed to “invent” in an autobiography? Do the people you mention in a memoir get a vote in how they're portrayed in the book? And
August 23, 2011
By Mark Athitakis
In the new issue of Poets & Writers, former NBCC president Jane Ciabattari reports on how various print and online book review outlets have responded to waves of budget cuts
July 20, 2011
By David Gates
So far I've been reading and re-reading mostly nonfiction this summer, partly with an eye to teaching my first real nonfiction course this fall. I just finished Jonathan Raban's masterly