Critical Notes

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

NBCC board member Tom Beer summarizes this week's new books for Newsday. NBCC board member Mary Ann Gwinn reviewed Richard Laurie's “Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash,” Fred Kaplan's

NBCC vice president/ online Jane Ciabattari's Lit Hub column features It Girl Eve Babitz's first novel, redux; 2000 literary It Guy Matthew Klam's first novel, Nina Rigg's radiant cancer memoir and

  NBCC President Kate Tuttle interviewed Ben Mezrich, the author of “Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures,” and reviewed Margot

NBCC president Kate Tuttle reviews Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s “The Fact of a Body” for the Los Angeles Times. Former NBCC board member Eric Liebetrau and current NBCC president Kate Tuttle contributed

Reviews and interviews: This week on Lit Hub, Jane Ciabattari, NBCC VP/Online, focused on the new Arundhati Roy and Catherine Lacey novels, an anthology edited by Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon