Criticism & Features

The following essay by Steve Almond kicks off the latest week of In Retrospect, which will revisit C.K. Williams' collection, “Flesh and Blood,” which won the NBCC's award for poetry in 1987. This

This week, the NBCC's In Retrospect series will be focusing on Peter Taylor's 1986 fiction winner, “A Summons to Memphis,”a wonderful, Jamesian novel that went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. The following

When I first saw Patrick Neate, he was wearing a hooded sweatshirt and climbing the stage of the New School in Manhattan, preparing to read from his book, “Where You’re

The development and rise of the American short story in the 19th century was the result of simple market forces. Because urban populations in America were so unstable, workers moving

This week, in addition to regular programming, Critical Mass will be revisiting Patrick Neate's 2004 criticism winner, “Where You're At: Notes from the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet.” We decided to

  When I was eight years old, one of my mother’s sophisticated New York friends gave me a book entitledSuzuki Beane. I was immediately enchanted. With cool, witty illustrations by Louise

Q: Has Joyce Johnson's memoir, Minor Characters reconfigured how we see Kerouac, what we know of him as a writer and a person? A: I don't think Joyce's book reconfigured how we see Kerouac,

All his life Lowell was trying to become comfortable with imperfection and in Day by Day he does. The book was an open door for him and it contains the most flexible