Critical Notes

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,

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,”

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

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

Andre Bernard’s moody publishing piece brings this year to an end with a somber note: “Yet I can’t help thinking that as this year gasps its way to its merciful

Scott McLemee waxes enthusiastic about Jeffrey B. Perry’s study “Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918,” and Perry’s thorough Wikipedia entry for Harrison. Art Winslow calls the author of

PW profiles former NBCC president John Freeman, “book review crusader,” focusing in part for his NBCC work in the Campaign to Save Book Reviewing. Janice Harayda talks to the Newark

Ellen Heltzel talks to PW. NBCC Tech VP Lizzie Skurnick takes time from working on the launch of the upgraded NBCC website and blog to interview Author and Indie Publisher