Critical Notes

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

Reviews and columns from our members: Studs Terkel won the NBCC's Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement award in 2004, and fitting for the Pulitzer Prize winning author of “Division Street,” he was

NBCC board president Kate Tuttle spoke with Simone John about her debut poetry collection, “Testify” for the Boston Globe. NBCC board member Tom Beer wrote about East Hampton Authors Night and

​Big news in the book world: New York Times long-time chief book reviewer Michiko Kakatuni has stepped down. Parul Sehgal, ​2010 NBCC Nona Balakian Citation winner, will assume the post. Rayyan