Awards News and Member Reviews

By Mark Athitakis

We Need Your Help Selecting the Next Sandrof Award Honoree Each year, the NBCC board selects a person or institution to win the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, and we’d

Andre Aciman, Michael Connelly, Ann Patchett, and More

By Mark Athitakis

Anita Felicelli reviewed Johanna Stoberock’s novel Pigs for On the Seawall, and spotlighted a dozen books that blur genre borders (including NBCC finalist Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go) for Electric Literature. George

New reviews and more from our members

By Carolyn Kellogg

If you’re reading this online you have probably noticed that our website looks a little different. It’s thanks to a few changes behind the scenes that we’re really excited about.

Patti Smith performing in Finland, 2007

Patti Smith, Ann Patchett and more

By Carolyn Kellogg

Claude Peck reviewed Patti Smith’s Year of the Monkey for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Priscilla Gilman reviewed Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House for the Boston Globe. Heller McAlpin reviewed Patchett’s The Dutch House and Leslie Jamison’s Make It Scream, Make It