Critical Notes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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