The LA Times lead review last weekend was Gregg Barrios on “The Farthest Home Is an Empire of Fire” by John Phillip Santos: His story is initially more compelling than
May 4, 2010
Roundup: May 3, 2010
By Bethanne Patrick
Critical Notes
April 26, 2010
NBCC Roundup April 26, 2010
By Bethanne Patrick
Here's this week's installment in the roundup series featuring the work of NBCC members and curated by NBCC member Bethanne Patrick. Links to member reviews will also be posted on
April 21, 2010
NBCC Roundup
By Bethanne Patrick
Each week on Critical Mass NBCC Bethanne Patrick curates a round up highlighting the work of NBCC members (to submit, send links to thebookmaven@gmail.com). Candace Levy reviews the audiobook version
April 12, 2010
Roundup 25
By Bethanne Patrick
Today Critical Mass launches a new roundup series featuring the work of NBCC members and curated by NBCC member Bethanne Patrick. Links to member reviews will be posted here, on
September 22, 2009
Roundup 24
By Jane Ciabattari
Blogger Andrew Sullivan helps sell subscriptions to the print version of The Atlantic. Are you following “Best of the Millennium” so far on The Millions? Countdown continues! Adam Kirsch calls
August 26, 2009
Roundup 23
By Jane Ciabattari
Morris Dickstein explains that the title of his new book does not come from a Bruce Springsteen song. John Freeman wonders if we should slow down…“The boundlessness of the Internet
August 11, 2009
Roundup, Pynchon Edition
By Eric Banks
NBCC members are weighing in on the new Thomas Pynchon and his new novel Inherent Vice. Here are Art Winslow in the Chicago Tribune, Rayyan Al-Shawaf in the Miami Herald,
July 23, 2009
Roundup 22
By Eric Banks
NBCC Balakian award winner George Scialabba reviews the “excellent” new biography of Ignazio Silone by Stanislao Pugliese, Bitter Spring. Well before the Beatles first LP (apologies to Larkin)…. This week
July 12, 2009
Roundup!
By Eric Banks
NBCC member John Madera sends along word of several new reviews: At The Rumpus, he’s recently written on Chelsea Martin’s Everything Was Fine Until Whatever and weighed in on the
June 29, 2009
Roundup 21
By Jane Ciabattari
James Marcus surfing a wave of attention for his booty-shaking Philip Roth sampling, drawn from his Roth interview last September: The Guardian, the NY Times, the German press…. Lynne Sharon