New Orleans Times Picayune book editor and NBCC member Susan Larson sends this update on the changes in her newspaper’s book pages as reported in our December 30 post: There’s
January 10, 2008
New Orleans Times-Picayune Book Pages Update
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Critical Mass
January 9, 2008
New Board Members
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The National Book Critics Circle has elected eight new members of the board of directors. They are: Eric BanksJames MarcusScott McLemeeElizabeth TaylorDavid UlinOscar VillalonArt WinslowLinda Wolfe Thanks to all the
January 7, 2008
Not Perhaps the News You Want Travelling Home
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A FEW YEARS ago I interviewed a Turkish novelist who was very careful about making comments about the political situation back home. This was a very tense time in Turkey,
January 5, 2008
Around the World with the NBCC 4
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Two-time NBCC winner Daniel Mendelsohn luxuriates in the letters of Noel Coward, a man “jagged with sophistication,” (pictured left smoking a cigarette in typical desert attire) but whose letters Mendelsohn
January 2, 2008
Preview 2008: Benjamin Taylor’s “The Book of Getting Even”
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The following is excerpted with permission from Benjamin Taylor’s “The Book of Getting Even,” to be published in May 2008 by Steerforth Press. Marghie called them both to her room
January 1, 2008
Steve Weinberg to Teresa Budasi of the Chicago Sun Times: “Hang in there…”
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On the last day of 2007, my postal carrier delivered an envelope from Teresa Budasi, book section editor at the Chicago Sun-Times. Teresa had enclosed the Sunday, Dec. 23 book
December 30, 2007
Kudos to the Times-Picayune
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The New Orleans Times-Picayune announced today the shift of its book section to the Friday “Living” section beginning January 11, 2008, with expanded coverage of books and the New Orleans
December 25, 2007
Preview 2008: Terese Svoboda#8217;s “Black Glasses like Clark Kent”
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The following is excerpted with permission from Terese Svoboda’s “Black Glasses like Clark Kent: A GI’s Secret from Postwar Japan,” winner of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize (selected by Robert Polito),
December 21, 2007
Friday Afternoon Addictions
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I confess. I get antsy around three o’clock on Friday afternoons. Most weeks by four o’clock I hear the satisfying click that tells me the nytimesdirect email with Sunday’s book
December 18, 2007
Quiet Time
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Critical Mass will be quieter than usual in coming weeks: Board members are scattering for the holidays and holing up to finish reading mountains of books by January 12th, when