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June 10, 2013

Monday Roundup: More on Rachel Kushner, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and NBCC BEA panels

By Eric Liebetrau

VIDEO: The VIDA Count and Gender Bias in Book Reviewing. VIDEO: NBCC on the Ethics of Book Reviewing. PODCAST: What Is Criticism? NBCC Winner and Finalist at AWP. In the

June 3, 2013

Post-BEA Roundup: John Leonard Award, VIDA and Ethics Panels, Adichie, Dante & More

By Jane Ciabattari

Last week's NBCC events generated buzz & kudos, beginning with the NBCC's announcement of the new John Leonard award for a first book, reported first by Balakian winner Ron Charles

May 27, 2013

Roundup: Eric Banks, Susan Gubar, & Kathryn Schulz’s Contrarian Take on ‘The Great Gatsby’

By Jane Ciabattari

Outgoing NBCC president Eric Banks starts a new position as director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU in July; outgoing director Lawrence Weschsler was an NBCC

May 20, 2013

Monday Roundup: Allen Guelzo, Nathaniel Philbrick, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and more

By Eric Liebetrau

At the Boston Globe, Jan Gardner looks at pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton's memoir. Also at the Globe, Julia M. Klein reviews M.E. Thomas' Confessions of a Sociopath. In the Chicago Tribune,

May 13, 2013

Roundup: Reviews of Gail Godwin and more; plus Robert Caro and Stephen Colbert discuss LBJ’s penis

By Eric Liebetrau

VIDEO: LBJ's penis and more: 2012 NBCC Biography Award winner Robert Caro gets the Colbert Report treatment. “A Tale of Remorse that Creeps Under Your Skin”: Maureen Corrigan on Gail

May 6, 2013

Roundup: More Rachel Shteir kerfuffle and reviews of Sedaris, Angelou and others

By Eric Liebetrau

Congratulations to all the new 2013 Guggenheim Fellows connected to the NBCC: NBCC fiction winner Kiran Desai, NBCC nonfiction winner Maya Jasanoff, NBCC fiction finalist Adam Johnson, NBCC poetry finalist

April 22, 2013

Roundup: book reviews and plenty more awards for Andrew Solomon, Robert Caro and Ben Fountain

By Eric Liebetrau

2012 NBCC Fiction Award winner Ben Fountain secures another major award, the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize. In the Biography category, Robert Caro took home the award for his The

April 12, 2013

Monday Roundup: Kate Atkinson, Rachel Kushner, the Rise of the Venezuelan Novel and more

By Eric Liebetrau

2012 NBCC Fiction Award winner Ben Fountain grabs another honor: the Texas Institute of Letters award. “For the reader's sake, I wish Katznelson (or his editor) had been incisive enough

April 8, 2013

Massive Monday Roundup: from Nabokov to Hamid to Auster to Coetzee to Simic and more

By Eric Liebetrau

“A tapestry of literary activism and erudition, passion and precision, action with words.” So writes the El Paso Times about Red-Inked Retablos, the latest book from NBCC board member Rigoberto

April 1, 2013

Roundup: Susan Gubar, Ben Fountain, Andrew Solomon, another major award for Marina Warner & More

By Eric Liebetrau

Meredith Maran's Why We Write in BookPage's “9 noteworthy books for book lovers,” a lighthearted list of “books about books.” Just a month after winning the 2012 NBCC Criticism award for

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