September 15, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
NBCC member Mark Athitakis brought to our attention that literary bloggers D.G. Myers and Patrick Kurp were hosting an online symposium called “The Function of Book Blogging at the Present
September 14, 2009
By John Ashbery
At the NBCC 35th Anniversary Celebration on September 12, John Ashbery spoke of how winning the first NBCC award in poetry, for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, helped jump-start his
September 10, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
NBCC member Chelsey Philpot sends us “A J-School Grad’s Lament” upon the 35th anniversary of the NBCC. She is editorial assistant at the HORN BOOK GUIDE. a PUBLISHERS WEEKLY reviewer
September 9, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the NBCC, board member Linda Wolfe provides this brief concise history of the NBCC—originally published in the Winter 2000 issue of the
September 4, 2009
By Eric Banks
Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. This week, in a review originally published at Salon.com, Laura Miller considers Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent
August 27, 2009
By Eric Banks
Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from the Brooklyn Rail, Jackson Taylor reviews Frederick Seidel’s Poems 1959–2009. Frederick Seidel is
August 21, 2009
By Eric Banks
Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from the Kansas City Star, Steve Paul reviews Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast: The
August 15, 2009
By Eric Banks
Critical Mass regularly features an exemplary review by a National Book Critics Circle member critic. Here, from VQR, Emily Colette Wilkinson reviews Leanne Shapton’s Important Artifacts and Personal Property from
August 13, 2009
By Craig Morgan Teicher
Stephen Burt (see bio below) recently told us about his summer reading: I’m one of those people who read ten to fifteen books, not “at once,” which would require the
August 7, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Someday a scholar will write a book about the case. It will be about several generations in a New England family of French-Canadian descent named Kerouac. The book could easily