Critical Notes

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

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

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

  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

Jenny Bhatt reviewed Stephanie Rosenbloom's “Alone Time” for Popmatters. Jane Ciabattari recommended ten books to read in August for BBC Culture. John Domini reviewed Laura Van den Berg's novel, “The Third Hotel” for the

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

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

NBCC members Tara Cheesman and Fran Bigman launch a new Q&A series, The Craft of Criticism, in which they ask book critics and review editors for their thoughts about contemporary

  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

For the Minneapolis Star Tribune where she is the senior editor for books, NBCC board member Laurie Hertzel wrote her Sunday column about the vote by The Association for Library Service to