NBCC Reads: Favorite book about work? Ed Park’s “Personal Days”
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: Parul Sehgal to NPR
New job for Parul Sehgal, this year's Balakian winner for excellence in reviewing (she's on tap to announce the 2011 winner on January 21 at Artists Space). She's left PW, where she was a senior reviews editor, to become associate di...
NBCC News: Lev Grossman, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto Reading Thursday Night at Westbeth
Former NBCC board member Lev Grossman, who was one of the NBCC's Standup Book Critics at this year's PEN World Voices 'Festival, and a contestant in the NBCC Stump the Critic Litcrawl contest at the Texas Book Fair in Austin last mon...
NBCC Reads: Favorite book about work? Philip Levine, Philip Levine, Philip Levine
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 Member News: Floyd & Rebecca Skloot, Katharine Weber, Margot Mifflin, Denise Low & More
Floyd Skloot’s new book of short stories, Cream of Kohlrabi, was published in September (Tupelo Press). So was The Best American Science Writing 2011, which he co-edited with his daughter, long-time NBCC board member Rebecca Skloot, and Be...
Pushcart Prize 2012: Stephen Burt, Kathleen Graber, Alan Michael Parker, Anis Shivani
Just got my copy of Volume XXXVI of the Pushcart Prize, founded and edited by 2006 Sandrof Awardee Bill Henderson. (I'm a contributing editor.)
It's a grand selection from the small presses, as always. A mini doorstopper at 570 p...
NBCC Member News: Randy Gener Hosts Samuel L. Jackson, David Henry Hwang, & More
NBCC member Randy Gener moderates a panel at a salon event tomorrow, November 3, 4:30-6:30 pm in New York City at New Dramatists (424 West 44th Street) to celebrate the publication of Carson Kreitzer's Self Defense and Other Plays and Chiori...
NBCC Member News: Daniela Gioseffi & Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Daniela Gioseffi reads her poetry tonight, Oct. 28th, Fri. 7 PM with Paul Mariani & NBCC Sandrof Lifetime Achievement awardee Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The three poets are winners of The John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry, int...
NBCC Member News: David Abrams
NBCC member David Abrams' novel about the Iraq War, "Fobbit," was recently acquired by Grove/Atlantic. He blogs about the literary life at The Quivering Pen, where you can also find discarded scraps of "Fobbit."
Keyword tags:
...
Laura Miller on the Value of a Really Good Editor
Former NBCC board member and Salon founder/book columnist Laura Miller talks to the Rumpus today about reviewing, YA fantasy fiction, what she's looking forward to reading (Colson Whitehead, Jeffrey Eugenides, Murakami, et al) and w...
Mark Doty: “We writers know what it is to want”
Last night NBCC honored poet Mark Doty spoke to the newly fledged Whiting Awards class of 2011, ten writers, each awarded $50,000, out of the blue. (The awardees: fiction writers Scott Blackwood, Ryan Call, Daniel Orozco, and Teddy Wayne; poets ...
Video of NBCC Reads at Center for Fiction: On the Comic Novel
What's your favorite comic novel? Novelist Beth Gutcheon chose Evelyn Waugh's first novel, and explained why, noting that Catch-22 and Lucky Jim also were first novels. Parul Sehgal, this year's Balakian winner and PW editor...
