Roundup: Carlos Fuentes, Richard Ford, Emily Bernard, Esi Edugyan
Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, whose work pioneered the “Boom” in Latin American literature in the mid-20th Century, died last week at 83. Marcela Valdes delivers an extended obituary and appreciation; Arts and Letters Daily ...
NBCC Reads: Life During Wartime
War reporting has been at the heart of plenty of contemporary literary journalism: A scan through the list of of NBCC finalists and winners in the nonfiction categories reveals some excellent examples, from Michael Herr's Dispatches to Philip G...
Roundup: Cesar Aira, Laurent Binet, Toni Morrison, and More
What distinguishes a book review in a newspaper or magazine from a user review on Amazon? Researchers at the Harvard Business School are studying the matter. Among the findings: “Expert ratings are correlated with Amazon ratings, suggesting t...
NBCC Reads: Geoff Dyer’s Favorite Works of Literary Journalism
Next week we'll begin posting responses we received to the spring NBCC Reads question: What is your favorite work of literary journalism? To get the ball rolling a little early, we asked Geoff Dyer---winner of the 2011 NBCC award in criticism f...
Small Press Spotlight: Douglas Ray
Author Photo: Jane Rule Burdine
He Will Laugh, Lethe Press, 2012.
Douglas Ray, a 2010 Lambda Literary Foundation poetry fellow, teaches at Indian Springs School, a boarding and day school in Birmingham, Alabama. He received his B.A. and M.F....
Roundup: Los Angeles Festival of Books, Daniel Sada, Anna Quindlen, more
Last weekend marked the 17th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which attracted plenty of big names, including NBCC nonfiction winner Steve Lopez, fiction finalist Dana Spiotta, National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, along with panels on ...
NBCC at PEN World Voices Festival May 3
The weeklong PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature kicks off next Monday, April 30, in New York. The National Book Critics Circle will be there, cosponsoring (along with the Austrian Culture Forum, Ledig House, and the PEN Translati...
Roundup: The Fiction (Non-) Pulitzer and More
Last week’s news that there would be no Pulitzer Prize awarded in fiction produced an avalanche of commentary. Here’s a sampling of what people were saying last week:
Laura Miller, a former Pulitzer fiction judge, wrote in Salon that ...
LA Review of Books Relaunches
Yesterday the Los Angeles Review of Books launched its brand-new website, moving fromTumblr to a robust, comments-enabled platform. LARB editor Tom Lutz answered some questions about the site last year as part of Critical Mass' "Conversations W...
Roundup: Robert Caro, E-Reading, Joe R. Lansdale, and More
“It’s not a question of liking or disliking him. I’m trying to explain how political power worked in America in the second half of the 20th century, and here’s a guy who understood power and used it in a way that no one ever...
NBCC at AWP
From left: Jane Smiley, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Jane Ciabattari, Jennifer Egan, Darin Strauss, Isabel Wilkerson (Credit: Robb Cohen Photography and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs)
The National Book Critics Circle featured readin...
Roundup: Investigating Amazon, New Poetry, Louis Begley, and More
What impact has Amazon had on the publishing industry, from taxes to indies to employees? The Seattle Times takes a look in a four-part series.
Denise Low launches a new poetry column in the Kansas City Star with reviews of new books by Albert Go...
