December 3, 2009
By Tom McCartan
Over the next two weeks, we’ll be hosting “What Bolaño Read,” a series of posts by Tom McCartan charting the reading habits of Roberto Bolaño, the Chilean novelist, poet, and
November 17, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Podcast of the November 9 NBCC Reads event, “Why Translation Matters,” at Prairie Lights Books in Iowa City, with Sarah Fay, Christopher Merrill, Cole Swenson, Rudolph Valentino, and Robin Hemley.
November 4, 2009
By James Marcus
NBCC board member James Marcus, who shepherds the “NBCC Reads” series and created the dance-floor Roth mashup, takes a look backward and forward in his remarks honoring the NBCC 35th
November 3, 2009
By Kevin Prufer
NBCC board member Kevin Prufer offers these thoughts on his years on the board. One of the satisfactions of having hung around the NBCC Board for seven years is that
November 1, 2009
By Eric Banks
Each week Critical Mass highlights an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member. Here, in a review that appeared at The Quarterly Conversation, Matthew Tiffany reviews Laird Hunt's
November 1, 2009
By Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's new novel “The Year of the Flood,” was published this fall. She is the author of more than 40 works of fiction, poetry, children's books and critical essays.
October 28, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
November 9, 2009. 7 pm. Panelists will read brief excerpts from works in translation that have influenced them, and discuss, as well as provide a list of worthy works in
October 28, 2009
By Vikram Johri
NBCC member Vikram Johri sends his 35th anniversary thoughts. Heartiest congratulations to the NBCC on turning 35. As a rather recent member of this esteemed organization, I feel privileged to
October 22, 2009
By Jack Miles
Former NBCC president Jack Miles sends us these reminiscences from the late 1980s and early 1990s. The members of the NBCC board in the late eighties and early nineties were
October 20, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Mary Jo Bang is the author of six collections of books, including “Elegy,” which received the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent collection, “The Bride of E,”