December 20, 2007
By NBCC
Last year’s NBCC Balakian award winner Steven G. Kellman offers this In Retrospect essay on 1980 NBCC finalist in criticism “Lectures on Literature” by Vladimir Nabokov; edited by Fredson Bowers
November 14, 2007
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
October 25, 2007
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
September 25, 2007
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
September 24, 2007
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
August 20, 2007
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
April 19, 2007
By NBCC
Beverly Jarrett, the editor-in-chief of theUniversity of Missouri Press for the past 17 years, has more than 40 years in publishing. We asked her to answer a few questions. Q. You
April 8, 2007
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
April 2, 2007
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
February 7, 2007
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