Critical Notes

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

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

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

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

“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

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

Chinua Achebe's death last week brought to mind PEN American Center's celebration of the author's work, as recalled by David Ulin. Among the Philip Roth birthday notices, Steve Kellman's “Four

Wrapping up the “13 Bests of AWP 2013” for the Huffington Post, Ru Freeman named NBCC board member and AWP organizer, Harvard professor, NBCC criticism finalist and poet Stephen Burt

Dallas News kvells,  book editor Michael Merschel grabs a quote from Ben Fountain re his NBCC fiction award for “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.” NBCC's multitasking web manager David Varno

First up, video of the National Book Critics Circle finalists reading, complete list of National Book Critics Circle award winners, video of Sandrof lifetime achievement winners Sandra Gilbert and Susan