Around the World with the NBCC 1

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Former NBCC finalist Anthony Shadid reviews an anthology of the best reporting from the Iraq war (which features writing by recent finalist, Patrick Cockburn) Board member Art Winslow gets in

In Which It Works Against Them

By NBCC

How many very good contemporary novelists have become hard to write about because of the back-drafts caused by their success? I could name names here, but you know the kind

Food for Though From Kurt Vonnegut

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“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge

Six Degrees (And Twenty-three Shades) of Sheed

By Allen Barra

Wilfrid Sheed's name has been resurfacing recently. He was a frequent point of reference in James Wolcott's recent piece in The New Republic, Scott McLemee is clearly a fan, and as former Balakian finalist

In Other News (December 2007)

By NBCC

The New Republic has done an issue on books, worth checking out. It features an editorial by the editors which concludes with a few sentences that ought to be faxed

Remembrances of Elizabeth Hardwick

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Former NBCC board member Mark Feeney pays tribute to her finest work, and remembers what it was like squaring off against her in the debating room at the Algonquin. Writing

Booklust

By NBCC

Imagine if this became the hot gift book of the season. Labels: Biblomania