February 26, 2008
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Around Frankfurt, I kept hearing about a list of rules German publisher (and novelist) Michael Kruger compiled. It was a sort of secular ten commandments for small press publishing. Here
February 25, 2008
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From Charles Baxter’s “The Feast of Love:” “And then we were making love . . . and my soul—I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it’s what happened—became visible to
February 24, 2008
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Master story teller Gioia Timpanelli, author of “Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily,” has a new radio program on PRX called “Told and Retold.” The first installment, an hour-long
February 23, 2008
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NBCC finalist Michael Chabon’s “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union” has been optioned by Scott Rudin and the Coen brothers, who turned “No Country for Old Men” into such a good film.
February 23, 2008
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The following post from award winning novelist Dennis Lehane comes to us via NBCC member Mark Athitakis, who is curating the In Retrospect series look back at Richard Price’s 1992
February 19, 2008
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Each week, the National Book Critics Circle will post a list of five books a critic believes reviewers should have in their libraries. We recently heard from Helen Vendler, A
February 18, 2008
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Incoming NBCC board member David Ulin looks at the literary lineage of contemporary films in “More novel-based films are staying truer to their source,” his piece in yesterday’s Los Angeles
February 15, 2008
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The following essay by novelist Charles Baxter continues the NBCC’s In Retrospect series with a look back at William T. Vollmann’s “Europe Central,” a finalist for the fiction award in
February 12, 2008
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Each week, the National Book Critics Circle will post a list of five books a critic believes reviewers should have in their libraries. We recently heard from German critic Arno
February 12, 2008
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The following guest post comes to us from Elik Lettinga, editor in chief of Arbeiderspers. It is part of an occasional series of glimpses at the international publishing scene the