Gary Shteyngart, Football Books, and Stephen King

By Taylor Anhalt

Coming up Friday, September 14, at Poets House: NBCC's official Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event, Is the Poet the New Public Intellectual? moderated by board member Tess Taylor, with board

Fall Books, Everyday People and Knausgaard

By Elizabeth Taylor

NBCC VP/Online and past PresidentJane Ciabattari's September BBC Culture column features fiction by Gary Shtyngart, Deborah Eisenberg, Abby Geni and Lydia Kiesling, and nonfiction from NBCC  nonfiction finalist Miriam Pawel

Seuss, Coulter, Kwon, and More…

By Victoria Chang

This week, the NBCC launched its first-ever fundraising campaign and we're off to a great start!  Your donation will help us maintain and upgrade our website, support our emerging writers

Donald Trump, Omarosa, and a whole lot more

By Laurie Hertzel

  But first, some important and very good news: We’ve got some exciting news. The link to our Google spreadsheet with more than 60 book review publications has now gone live on the membership

Library Lions, Laura van den Berg, and R. O. Kwon

By Taylor Anhalt

This week's Craft of Criticism interview is with NBCC VP/Awards Yahdon Israel. Reviews Ron Slate reviewed Rebecca Makkai’s novel “The Great Believers” for On The Seawall. Steve Donoghue reviewed Paul French's “City

New Novels by R.O. Kwon, Donal Ryan and more!

By Daisy Fried

NBCC President Kate Tuttle talks to Alexander Chee about his new book, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, and about researching his own life, for The Boston Globe. R.O. Kwon's

Full summer, and we are thinking about Laura

By Laurie Hertzel

  For Vice President/Online Jane Ciabattari's Lit Hub column, Francine Prose offers five classics to read and re-read (think Middlemarch, Bolano). Minneapolis Star Tribune readers reacted strongly to board member