Critical Notes

Reminder: NBCC Balakian award submissions from members are due December 17. The award for excellence in book criticism includes a $1,000 cash prize funded by former NBCC board member Gregg

Louise Erdrich reads from “Future Home of the Living God” in Minneapolis on pub day. Reviews and profiles For the Seattle Times, board member Mary Ann Gwinn interviewed David Buerge about

NBCC members are in the thick of the #NBCCLeonard awards process, nominating books and writing blog posts about their favorites. The awards, for a first book in any genre published

NBCC and Lambda are hosting a literary mixer next Wednesday, November 8th at Folksbier in Brooklyn. Details are available here.  John Domini interviews Jenny Erpebeck for Bookforum, and praises her novel Go, Went,

                                    Reviews and other news: NBCC board member Yahdon Israel was interviewed in

Reviews and interviews Board member Mary Ann Gwinn interviewed David Neiwert, author of  “Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump,” for the Seattle Times. Board member Laurie

                      Reviews and other news: The Nobel Prize in Literature goes to Kazuo Ishiguro, whose 2005 novelNever Let Me Go”

Member reviews and interviews: Jennifer Egan, who earned the NBCC Fiction Award for her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad,  has a new novel out this month. Priscilla Gilman

  Welcome to autumn, high season of publishing, as well as the heady season of book awards. Hang on! It's going to be busy straight through to New Year's. And

Labor Day is behind us, September thrums with hurricanes and tempests, the National Book Festival and Brooklyn Book Festival drum up excitement for reading. And NBCC members are busier than