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March 12, 2012

Roundup: NBCC winners, Clarice Lispector, Michael Martone, more

By Mark Athitakis

Last Thursday’s National Book Critics Circle awards attracted plenty of coverage, including reports from the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and other outlets. At Commentary’s website,

March 5, 2012

Roundup: VIDA stats, the Slate Book Review, Elizabeth Taylor, and more

By Mark Athitakis

Last week the nonprofit organization VIDA released its report on the gender gap at literary magazines: With one exception (Granta), coverage at the New Yorker, Harper’s, the Paris Review, and

February 26, 2012

Roundup: Barney Rosset Remembrances, Geoff Dyer, Nathan Englander, Ellen Ullman, more

By Mark Athitakis

The appreciations for Barney Rosset, who died last week, rolled in over the weekend from the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

February 20, 2012

Roundup: Nathan Englander, Hanne Blank, Thomas Mallon, more

By Mark Athitakis

Adam Kirsch reviews Nathan Englander’s story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank at Tablet; Parul Sehgal reviews the book for NPR.org. George de Stefano reviews

February 5, 2012

Roundup: Debuts by Lysley Tenorio and Keija Parssinen, “Cuckoo’s Nest” at 50, more

By Mark Athitakis

Laura Collins-Hughes reviews Lysley Tenorio’s debut story collection, Monstress, for the Boston Globe. Steve Weinberg reviews Keija Parssinen’s novel The Ruins of Us for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. David Duhr

January 30, 2012

Roundup: Follow the Reader, Dmitry Samarov, Percival Everett, more

By Mark Athitakis

Last Friday Bethanne Patrick discussed the NBCC award nominees with board member Carolyn Kellogg and Balakian awardee Ron Charles for Follow the Reader, a weekly book chat on Twitter. You

January 23, 2012

Roundup: NBCC finalists, Aharon Appelfeld, Kjersti Skomsvold, more

By Mark Athitakis

Last Saturday the NBCC announced the finalists for its book awards. Here at Critical Mass, you can see the full list of finalists in all six book categories, as well

January 16, 2012

Roundup: Melissa Pritchard, John Updike, John Lewis Gaddis, and more

By Mark Athitakis

A reminder: On Saturday, January 21, the NBCC will announce the finalists for its annual awards. If you're in New York City, you can catch the announcement in person, or

January 9, 2012

Roundup: Upcoming 2012 Books, Roger Rosenblatt, James Franco, Sara Levine, more

By Mark Athitakis

Planning out your 2012 reading? The Millions has a hefty list of some of the new year’s biggest titles, and Scott Esposito gathers up some forthcoming 2012 books, with a

December 19, 2011

Roundup: Remembering Christopher Hitchens, Best-Of Lists, John Cheever, and More

By Mark Athitakis

Essayist, pundit, critic, and journalist Christopher Hitchens died last Thursday at 62. His 2010 memoir, Hitch-22, was a finalist for the NBCC award for autobiography. Arts & Letters Daily has

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