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SUMMARY:AWP 2024: How Book Reviewing is Changing and Why it Matters
DESCRIPTION:Like everything in publishing\, book reviews are in flux\, with mainstream venues reducing reviews in exchange for fawning interviews and book roundups that feel like marketing fluff pieces. This panel of book critics will discuss why they write book reviews\, the state of book reviewing today\, the need for diversity in book reviewers and in books reviewed\, and how criticism can help reshape an often myopic and inequitable industry. \n\nModerator: Alice Stephens is the author of the novel Famous Adopted People; a book reviewer\, essayist\, and short story writer; cofounder of the Adoptee Literary Festival; facilitator at the Adoptee Voices Writing Group; an editor at Bloom; and a member of the Starlings Collective.\n\nMartha Anne Toll‘s debut novel\, Three Muses\, won the Petrichor Prize and was shortlisted for the Gotham Book Prize. Her second novel\, Duet For One is due out spring 2025. She is a frequent book reviewer for NPR Books\, the Washington Post\, and others. She is on the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. \n\n\nEricka Taylor lives in Washington\, DC\, where she writes fiction\, book reviews\, and opinion pieces. She is a regular contributor to NPR Books\, and her writing has appeared in YES! Media\, Willow Springs Magazine\, Bloom\, and The Millions. She serves on the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. \n\n\nTope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington\, DC. He serves as the Lannan visiting lecturer in creative writing at Georgetown University and has garnered many awards for his writing\, including the Caine Prize for African Writing\, and the Whiting Award for Fiction.
URL:https://www.bookcritics.org/event/how-book-reviewing-is-changing-and-why-it-matters/
LOCATION:Room 3501 EF\, Kansas City Convention Center\, Level 3
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SUMMARY:AWP 2024: Where Is Literary Criticism Headed?
DESCRIPTION:In its fiftieth anniversary year\, the National Book Critics Circle gathers literary critics who have been defining the future of contemporary cultural criticism. Three NBCC criticism award chairs\, who have had their fingers on the pulse of critical engagement for the past decade\, are joined by three NBCC-honored critics in a reading and wide-ranging conversation about the future of the form. \n  \nCamille T. Dungy is the author of Soil\, four collections of poetry\, including Trophic Cascade and the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers\, a finalist for the NBCC Criticism award. A University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University\, Dungy’s honors include the 2021 Academy of American Poets Fellowship\, a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship\, an American Book Award\, and fellowships from the NEA in prose and poetry. \nThe winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism\, Margo Jefferson previously served as book and arts critic for Newsweek and the New York Times. Her writing has appeared in\, among other publications\, Vogue\, New York Magazine\, The Nation\, and Guernica. Her memoir\, Negroland\, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. She is also the author of On Michael Jackson and is a professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts. \nWalton Muyumba has published literary essays and reviews in The Atlantic\, The Boston Globe\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Nation\, The New York Review of Books\, Oxford American\, and Virginia Quarterly Review\, among other outlets. He co-edited and wrote the introduction to John Edgar Wideman’s collection\, You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories\, 1981–2018 (Scribner\, 2021). Muyumba is at work on various creative and critical book projects. He is Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor in the Department of English at Indiana University. \nModerator: J. Howard Rosier is the National Book Critics Circle’s criticism chair. His writing has appeared in The New York TImes\, the Atlantic\, The Nation\, Bookforum\, Poetry\, Words Without Borders\, and elsewhere. He teaches writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
URL:https://www.bookcritics.org/event/where-is-literary-criticism-headed/
LOCATION:Ballroom B\, Level 2\, Kansas City Convention Center
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SUMMARY:AWP 2024: The Criticism of Translated Books: A Words Without Borders Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Three leading critics and translators—Sarah Chihaya (book critic and author of The Ferrante Letters)\, Laura Marris (translator of The Plague)\, and Justin Rosier (chair\, National Book Critics Circle Criticism Committee)—will discuss the challenges and benefits of reviewing translated literature with Words Without Borders Books Editor Adam Dalva. The conversation will focus on both the ethics of reviewing books in translation and practical tips on how to best write compelling contemporary criticism. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator:Adam Dalva’s writing has appeared in the New Yorker\, Paris Review\, and New York Review of Books. He is the senior fiction editor of Guernica magazine\, serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle\, and is the books editor of Words Without Borders. \n\n\nSarah Chihaya is an assistant professor of English at Princeton University and a senior editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is one of four authors of The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism. \n\n\nLaura Marris’s criticism appears in the New York Times\, the TLS\, and The Point. Her translations include Camus’s The Plague and To Live is to Resist\, a biography of Gramsci. She has received support from MacDowell and the Silvers Foundation. Her first solo-authored book is forthcoming from Graywolf. \n\n\nJ. Howard Rosier’s writing has appeared in the New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Poetry\, the Nation\, Words Without Borders\, and elsewhere. He is is a board member of the National Book Critics Circle and a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
URL:https://www.bookcritics.org/event/the-criticism-of-translated-books-a-words-without-borders-conversation/
LOCATION:Room 2208\, Kansas City Convention Center\, Street Level
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