In spite of the cutbacks in many newspaper book sections, there have been a few creative gestures about how to handle books—some in the most unexpected places, Scott McLemee wrote
December 5, 2007
Old School
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Critical Mass
December 5, 2007
What to do In New York Tomorrow Night
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Thursday, December 6, 7:00pm OUR EMILY DICKINSON: A 21 st Century Response by Artists & Writers Jen Bervin, Susan Howe, Eliot Weinberger & Brenda Wineapple Susan Howe, author of the
December 4, 2007
Elizabeth Hardwick, 1916-2007
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ELIZABETH HARDWICK died today at age 91. The novelist, essayist, founding editor of the New York Review of Books, former NBCC board member, and NBCC winner (in fiction for her
December 4, 2007
PW Honors John Freeman and the NBCC
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This week Publishers’ Weekly released its year-end kudos to publishing honchos, and gave a nod to tireless NBCC president John Freeman and the NBCC Campaign to Save Book Reviewing. “As
December 3, 2007
Thinking About New Orleans: Valerie Martin
By Jane Ciabattari
It's hard to say how many writers were dislodged, disrupted, and disoriented by Hurricane Katrina and aftermath. I've been keeping track of a number of them through the “Thinking About
December 2, 2007
Thinking About New Orleans: An NBCC Reading by and for New Orleans Writers
By Jane Ciabattari
In the “Thinking About New Orleans” series on this blog, I have been tracking the experiences of writers displaced and disoriented by Hurriceanes Katrina and Rita and aftermath. Tomorrow night,
December 1, 2007
Thinking About New Orleans: Tom Adcock
By Jane Ciabattari
It's hard to say how many writers were dislodged, disrupted, and disoriented by Hurricane Katrina and aftermath. I've been keeping track of a number of them through the “Thinking About
November 30, 2007
Thinking About New Orleans: Kim Sykes
By Jane Ciabattari
It's hard to say how many writers were dislodged, disrupted, disoriented by Hurricane Katrina and aftermath. I've been keeping track of a number of them through the “Thinking About New
November 30, 2007
Thinking About New Orleans: Lee Meitzen Grue
By Jane Ciabattari
It's hard to say how many writers were dislodged, disrupted, disoriented by Hurricane Katrina and aftermath. I've been keeping track of a number of them through the “Thinking About New
November 29, 2007
Preview 2008: Honor Moore’s “The Bishop’s Daughter”
By Jane Ciabattari
This excerpt is from the Prologue to “The Bishop’s Daughter,” a memoir by the poet Honor Moore, to be published in May 2008 by W.W. Norton. It is Easter, and in