NBCC Reads: What’s your favorite comic novel?
We are now in our third year of NBCC Reads. This survey allows us to draw on the bookish expertise of our membership, along with former NBCC winners and finalists. Three times a year, we pose a question to NBCC members, former winners and finali...
Critical Library: William Gass
In this ongoing series, Critical Mass asks critics to name five books that should be found in any reviewer's library. Unable to settle on five, here are six books suggested by William Gass, who was a 1978 NBCC Criticism finalist for The World W...
NBCC Reads: Gary Giddins, Honor Moore, Michael Miller at McNally Jackson
NBCC award winner in criticism Gary Giddins (left), Bookforum editor Michael Miller, and NBCC finalist in autobiography Honor Moore talked about the books they'd like to see brought back into print at McNally Jackson in Soho on March 22 as par...
Coming up in Seattle April 7: Marjorie Garber and David Shields
Seattle NBCC Event
Thursday • April 7 • 7pm
Marjorie Garber and David Shields
The Use and Abuse of Literature (Pantheon)
and Reality Hunger (Vintage)
Reading & Book Signing. Free and open to the public.
Universi...
Podcast: On the NBCC’s Conversation with Biography and Autobiography Finalists
NBCC member John Madera reports on March 8 event with NBCC biography and autobiography finalists in conversation with biography committee chair Eric Banks and autobiography committee co-chair Rigoberto González, with biography finali...
National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Sarah Bakewell, Darin Strauss, Isabel Wilkerson
Onstage to accept the National Book Critics Circle awards on March 10: Sarah Bakewell, the biography award, for How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (Other Press), reviewed by NBCC board member St...
National Book Critics Circle Award Winners C.D. Wright, Jennifer Egan,Clare Cavanagh
Onstage to accept awards at the National Book Critics Circle's March 10 ceremony were C.D. Wright, in poetry, for One with Others: [a little book of her days] (Copper Canyon), reviewed here by NBCC board member Craig Morgan Teicher; Jen...
NBCC Reads: Back in Print, March 22 at McNally Jackson
NBCC Reads: Back in Print
March 22, 2011 7:00 pm
McNally Jackson, 52 Prince Street New York, NY
The latest installment of the National Book Critics Circle's NBCC Reads asks: What books would you like to see b...
William Gass: In Praise of John O’Brien and Dalkey Archive Press
Multiple NBCC award winner William Gass, a Dalkey Archive author, was on hand at the NBCC awards ceremony March 10 to honor Sandrof lifetime achievement winner Dalkey Archive Press and publisher John O'Brien.
I am here to represent, and also...
Guest Post: Balakian Award Winner Parul Sehgal Accepts
This year's Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, to Parul Sehgal, whose remarks are here:
I’m a bit overwhelmed. And I must confess that I’m wearing a sari not so much to signal ethnic pride than to conceal the knocki...
NBCC Celebrates Small Press Month, March 30 at NYU Bookstore
The National Book Critics Circle celebrates Small Press Month 2011 with a panel discussion moderated by Library Journal's Barbara Hoffert (above) at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 30, at the NYU Bookstore, 726 Broadway, New York, NY 10003....
NBCC Awards Night: President’s Welcome
Thank you Robert. Robert Polito is a National Book award winner himself, for his biography of Jim Thompson.
Thank you The New School; we value our ongoing literary partnership. And thanks to everyone for coming. A special welcome to our stu...
