Conversations: 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

Conversations: 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

Conversations: 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

NBCC Reads: Tom Stoppard on Literary Criticism

By NBCC

Tom Stoppard's dying literary critic, Vissarion Belinsky, has this to say about his–and our–chosen calling, in “Shipwreck,” Part II of “The Coast of Utopia” trilogy: “I fell in love with