Save the Dates: NBCC awards finalists’ reading, membership meeting, awards ceremony, March 7-8
National Book Critics Circle awards season begins. Thirty finalists in six categories as well as the recipients of the Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement (Robert Silvers of the New York Review of Books) and the Nona A. Balakian Citation fo...
Announcing the NBCC Nonfiction Finalists: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Thirty NBCC finalists were announced Saturday night at Artists Space in Soho after an all-day board meeting at which 25 NBCC board members cast their ballots. Siddhartha Mukherjee (left, with NBCC president Eric Banks), a finalist for last year'...
Chicago Tribune Brings Back Sunday Book Review
The Chicago Tribune is re-introducing its Sunday book review on February 26 as a 24-page stand-alone publication with reviews, interviews, and short fiction. A sample will go to 100,000 subscribers this weekend. The Printers Row special will cost s...
NBCC/Bookforum conversation: Criticism Beside Itself
Last night's critical conversation at the Center for Fiction, dubbed "Criticism Beside Itself,"ranged widely, from discussion of Russian formalists, Marxists, and N+1 magazine to critics James Wood (Elif Batuman: "James Wood nailed ...
Coming up January 20, NBCC and Bookforum at Center for Fiction: “Criticism Beside Itself”
Friday, January 20 7 pm.
"Criticism Beside Itself"
Center For Fiction
17 E. 47th St. • 212.755.6710
Cosponsored by Bookforum and the National Book Critics Circle
What is the proper genre of critical writing? How does criticism inf...
NBCC Reads: Joan Acocella’s favorite book about work
Work is the all-American pastime, taking more and more of our waking hours, and infiltrating our sleep. It’s been grist for books from Studs Turkel’s 'Working' to Joshua Ferris’ 'And Then We Came to the End' to Jos...
NBCC Reads: Favorite book about work? Three for George Orwell’s “Down and Out…”
Work is the all-American pastime, taking more and more of our waking hours, and infiltrating our sleep. It’s been grist for books from Studs Turkel’s Working to Joshua Ferris’ And Then We Came to the End to Joseph Heller’s S...
Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) R.I.P.
Christopher Hitchens, who was a finalist for last year's NBCC award in autobiography for his boisterous memoir Hitch 22, reviewed here in our 31 Books in 31 Days series,died last night at age 62 of complications of esophogheal cancer. Tributes ...
NBCC Reads: Favorite book about work? Two for Eric Miles Williamson’s ‘Two-Up’
Work is the all-American pastime, taking more and more of our waking hours, and infiltrating our sleep. It’s been grist for books from Studs Turkel’s Working to Joshua Ferris’ And Then We Came to the End to Joseph Heller’s S...
NBCC News: Mark Rotella, David Hajdu “Tenement Talk” December 7
Amore:
The Story of Italian American Song
With Mark Rotella
In conversation with David Hajdu
A Tenement Talk
Date
Wednesday, December 7, 6:30 pm
Location
Sadie Samuelson Levy Immigrant Heritage Center
103 Orchard Street
www.tenement....
RIP Ruth Stone
Ruth Stone, won the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry for her 1999 collection Ordinary Words, died on November 19 at 96.
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Favorite book about work? Tom Rachman’s “The Imperfectionists”
Work is the all-American pastime, taking more and more of our waking hours, and infiltrating our sleep. It’s been grist for books from Studs Turkel’s Working to Joshua Ferris’ And Then We Came to the End to Joseph Heller’s S...
