Donald Hall, Jim Crace and Rebecca Makkai

By Elizabeth Taylor

Donald Hall, whose collection “The One Day” won the NBCC Poetry award in 1988, and was a past Poet Laurate, died at his home in New Hampshire. His passing was widely

Ian MacKenzie, William Trevor, Sarah Winman & Flash Fiction

By Taylor Anhalt

NBCC Vice President/Online Jane Ciabattari’s flash fiction, #BrooklynAftertheFall, was published in the flash anthology commissioned for Independent Bookstore Day on April 28, and in Lit Hub. Her new weekly Lit Hub column continues, with an

Straight-ahead book reviews and backwards books

By Laurie Hertzel

NBCC board member Laurie Hertzel wrote her weekly Star Tribune column on the strange and disturbing trend of shelving books spine-in. Board member Lori Feathers highlights three recent translations in