Harold Augenbraum on the National Book Awards

By Harold Augenbraum

We asked National Book Foundation executive director Harold Augenbraum (pictured left) to describe the home stretch for the National Book Awards, which culimate in a gala award ceremony at New

Q&A: John Updike on Reviewing

By NBCC

Twenty-four years ago John Updike won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism for “Hugging the Shore.” This week as “Due Considerations,” his sixth volume of assorted criticism, landed in stores, I caught

Julian Barnes on Philip Roth’s “The Counterlife”

By NBCC

Several years ago I talked to Julian Barnes upon the publication of hisBooker Prize shortlisted novel, “Arthur & George.” During the interview we began discussing Philip Roth's books, and Barnes mentioned “The Counterlife” was his

An Interview With Dinty W. Moore (yep, he’s real)

By Rebecca Skloot

Dinty W. Moore, writer and editor of the online journal Brevity, corresponded last week with Sara Hoover — NBCC intern and University of Memphis MFA student — about his unusual name and his

In Retrospect: A Q&A with Joyce Johnson

By NBCC

With the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road fast approaching (it was published on September 5, 1957), it is only appropriate to speak with Joyce Johnson, author of Minor

Interview with NBCC Winner Lawrence Weschler

By Jane Ciabattari

In presenting the NBCC award in criticism to Lawrence Weschler for “Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences” last month, NBCC president John Freeman called the book “a contagious, profoundly playful work

A Conversation with Barbara J. King

By Jessa Crispin

For the past two years, biological anthropologist Barbara J. King has written a monthly feature for my literary webzine, Bookslut.com. I believe the original idea was that she would write

Talking with Chimamanda Adichie

By Jane Ciabattari

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie returned to the US from Nigeria, where she was launching Half of a Yellow Sun in December, to learn the “lovely lovely news” that her novel was