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,
August 11, 2009
Roundup, Pynchon Edition
By Eric Banks
Critical Notes
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
June 12, 2009
Catchup Roundup 3
By Jane Ciabattari
Former NBCC president John Freeman moves from American editor to acting editor to editor of Granta. Freeman in the New York Observer here. Granta 106 is a special fiction issue.
May 22, 2009
Celebratory Roundup!
By Jane Ciabattari
As summer’s official start is upon us, some good news among NBCCers. Outgoing NBCC board member Marcela Valdes is a new Nieman, class of 2010, with an arts and culture
May 11, 2009
Roundup 20
By Jane Ciabattari
NBCC Reads at The Daily Beast. VQR editor Ted Genoways makes a persuasive argument for university presses and journals, as the LSU press is in danger. Ben Greenman celebrates “Please
April 19, 2009
Roundup 19
By Jane Ciabattari
Balakian winner Sam Anderson sets up a duel between this year’s first-ever National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award dual winners Juan Felipe Herrera and August Kleinzahler here. Geeta Sharma-Jensen drops
April 8, 2009
Roundup 18
By Jane Ciabattari
Twitter founder Biz Stone twitted by Stephen Colbert. New York Times Skimmer prototype, via Sree Sreenivisan tweet. Meanwhile, check out this Short Storyspreadsheet. Carolyn Kellogg on the 100th anniversary of
April 3, 2009
Roundup 17
By Jane Ciabattari
The Association of American Publishers is in search of a new slogan to inspire reading and giving books as gifts, They’re offering a $500 gift certificate as the prize for