March 31, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Happy Birthday #90 to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, NBCC Sandrof awardee. Critical Mass on 50th anniversary of “Coney Island of the Mind” here. His most recent interview on Critical Mass here. Maureen
March 20, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Dexter Filkins, whose “The Forever War” won the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction last week, has also won the Overseas Press Club‘s Cornelius Ryan award for best nonfiction
March 4, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
This year’s Balakian winner, Ron Charles, handicaps the National Book Critics Circle fiction awards, to be announced next Thursday evening, March 23, at the New School. Meanwhile, finalist M. Glenn
February 24, 2009
By Eric Banks
A couple of items on the state of the book review (and the future of newspapers): On NPR, CBS editorial director Dick Meyer talks about the vanishing standalone section, and
February 22, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
A busy schedule over the next few weeks. Just a few of the offerings: Tuesday, February 24, 8 pm. “Global Correspondences,” a reading by Andre Acimen, Edward Albee, Anthony Appiah,
February 11, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Doris Lessing, an NBCC finalist for memoir (and a Nobel laureate), recalls her mother putting her in charge of sitting hen on their “our farm in the old Southern Rhodesia,”
February 5, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Scott McLemee invokes Robertson Davies (“mind on fire”). In the Austin Statesman, Edward Nawotka finds Texas oilmen stories in Bryan Burrough’s The Big Rich “gossipy, engrossing.” All the NBCC finalists
January 28, 2009
By Eric Banks
In the Los Angeles Times, NBCC board member David Ulin remembers John Updike: Also in the LA Times: Ed Park weighs in on Joan Aiken’s The Serial Garden, a collection
January 9, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Former NBCC President John Freeman spoke of his pleasure at discovering the work of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapucinski in Granta in 1996 at the party celebrating his new post as
December 30, 2008
By Jane Ciabattari
To begin this last roundup of the old year, I note with sadness that as of this week, Marie Arana will no longer be at the helm of the Washington