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Lit Quake's NYC Lit Crawl Presents: National Book Critics Revise and Recant Start: September 11, 2010 8:15 pm End: September 11, 2010 9:00 pm Venue: White Slab Palace Address: 77 Delancey ...
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Brooklyn Book Festival, September 12, 20105:00, MAINSTAGE, Brooklyn Borough Hall.NBCC “Name that Author” returns to the book festival with 2008 champ Brigid Hughes (A Public Space), 2009 champ Martha Southgate (Third Girl from ...
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On this fifth anniversary of the beginning of the devastation that we now simply call Katrina, I'm posting links to Thinking About New Orleans, the Critical Mass blog series I began in August 2006, on the first anniversary of the hurricane. I h...
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In Critical Mass's ongoing "In Retrospect," in which contemporary critics revisit former winners and finalists for the National Book Critics Awards, Vince Passaro, a critic and author of  "Violence Nudity Adult Content: A No...
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Next up in the third in our Next Decade in Book Culture series, NBCC member Michael Lindren: Most of my reviews are assigned, rather than pitched, so it's a rare occasion when I am actively looking for something new to read. When I d...
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From NBCC member Jonah Raskin, another response to the third question in our Next Decade in Book Culture series.At the start of summer, John Simon emailed to tell me about the detective novels of Qiu Xiaolong, a Chinese-born novelist living in ...
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From NBCC member Joe Peschel, another response to the third question in our Next Decade in Book Culture series.What I'm going to read next depends on which books I'd like to review. For me, those books will usually be literary fiction (a...
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The following essay on Philip Roth's 1979 NBCC finalist The Ghost Writer, from Nona Balakian Citation winning critic Wyatt Mason, is part of the Critical Mass In Retrospect series, in which critics reevaluate NBCC award winners and finalists. ...
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Bob Shacochis (pictured here with critic Sven Birkerts) passes along his opening remarks from a book review panel at the Mayborn Nonfiction Writers Conference in Grapevine, Texas, on July 25. Other panelists were NBCC members Steve Weinberg and Mik...
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Our next question (Question #4) for guest posts in The Next Decade in Book Culture is, Are you using e-galleys? If not, are you ready to make the switch? NBCC board member Craig Morgan Teicher recently launched Publishers Weekly reviews of enhan...
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