NBCC Reads: John Domini’s favorite books 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 Joseph Heller&rsquo...
NBCC Reads: Kerri Arsenault’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 Joseph Heller&rsquo...
NBCC Reads: Andrei Codrescu’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 Joseph Heller&rsquo...
Roundup: Follow the Reader, Dmitry Samarov, Percival Everett, more
Last Friday Bethanne Patrick discussed the NBCC award nominees with board member Carolyn Kellogg and Balakian awardee Ron Charles for Follow the Reader, a weekly book chat on Twitter. You can catch up on their conversation (and Follow the Reader in...
NBCC Reads: Oscar Villalon’s favorite books 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 Joseph Heller&rsquo...
NBCC Reads: Steve Isenberg’s favorite books 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 Joseph Heller&rsquo...
NBCC Reads: David Abrams’ 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 Joseph Heller&rsquo...
NBCC Reads: Brenda Wineapple’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 Joseph Heller&rsquo...
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...
Roundup: NBCC finalists, Aharon Appelfeld, Kjersti Skomsvold, more
Last Saturday the NBCC announced the finalists for its book awards. Here at Critical Mass, you can see the full list of finalists in all six book categories, as well as the awardees of the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award and the Nona Balaki...
