Earlier this month, novelist Valerie Martin took part in an NBCC sponsored reading by and for New Orleans writers (details here). She ended her section of the evening by reading
December 18, 2007
Valerie Martin: An End-of-Year Lagniappe
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Critical Mass
December 16, 2007
A Tribute and a Celebration: Siv Cedering’s Last Book,“Vixen”
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Swedish-born poet and fiction writer Siv Cedering , who started her life thirty kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, died on November 17, 2007 in Sagaponack, NY, after a year-long
December 14, 2007
The Must Read Friday
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Michael Dirda is so familiar in his role as a Washington Post Book World columnist, you almost forget he can go deep into the next end zone, as he did
December 13, 2007
Around the World with the NBCC 3
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NBCC fiction prize winner Jonathan Lethem goes sentence-mad in “The New Yorker.” Member Marco Roth takes a bite out of the new Coetzee while over at Slate Judith Shulevitz marches
December 13, 2007
What the Booksellers at Books & Books are Recommending
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Brother, I’m Dying (memoir)By Edwidge DanticatKnopfEdwidge Danticat’s direct writing style lends an intimacy and an honesty to Brother, I’m Dying. As instances of profound sorrow, joy and injustice intersect in
December 12, 2007
Eat Pray Sell
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Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal’s Jeffrey Trachtenberg published a story on the phenomenon of former NBCC finalist Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love, which sold roughly 100,000 copies in
December 12, 2007
Preview 2008: Kathryn Harrison’s “While They Slept”
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The following is excerpted from “While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family” by NBCC member and Balakian award finalist Kathryn Harrison, to be published by Random House in June 2008.
December 11, 2007
Around the World with the NBCC 2
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In the Chicago Tribune, three-time NBCC winning novelist E.L. Doctorow reviews the latest memoir by the indomintable Studs Terkel, who won the NBCC’s Ivan R. Sandrof Award for lifetime achivement
December 11, 2007
Ethics in Book Reviewing Survey: The Results
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Dear NBCC Members and “Critical Mass” Readers: 68.5 percent of book reviewers think anyone mentioned in a book’s acknowledgements should be barred from reviewing it. 64.9 percent think anyone who
December 11, 2007
The Critical Library: Stuart Kelly
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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 Scotland on Sunday