Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012
Poet Adrienne Rich died March 27 at 82. She was an NBCC awards finalist three times, winning for her 2004 collection, The School Among the Ruins. Below, NBCC board member Stephen Burt considers Rich's life and work.
Adrienne Rich was a major ...
NBCC Awards on C-SPAN This Weekend
This year's NBCC Awards will be broadcast three times this weekend on C-SPAN's BookTV. Here are the dates (all times Eastern):
Saturday, March 31, 8 a.m.
Sunday, April 1, 4:30 a.m.
Sunday, April 1, 3 p.m.
Starting Monday the broadca...
Roundup: Mean Reviews, Lorin Stein, Esi Edugyan, Lionel Shriver, and More
Are book critics too mean? Should authors at the receiving end of a negative review stop biting their tongues and respond? Arthur Krystal considers the matter in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Balakian winner Ron Charles responds on the Was...
NBCC Reads: What Is Your Favorite Work of Literary Journalism?
Early 2012 seems to have become one very long longread about the virtues and pitfalls of reporting. Last month About a Mountain author John D'Agata and fact-checker Jim Fingal collected their punchy exchanges about accuracy and essay writing in...
Roundup: Reviewing Self-Published Books, Lauren Groff, Carol Anshaw, more
What obligations do reviewers have to self-published books? Joseph Peschel talks to a variety of critics and authors for “Another 100,000 Galleys” at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
New York Review of Books editor Robert Silvers, hon...
Video: NBCC Membership Meeting: YA and Beyond
March 8, 2012, The New School, New York, NY
Video courtesy of Paige Zelinsky
YA and Beyond: The Flexible Boundaries of Publishing for Young Adult Readers
Panelists Include:
Lev Grossman, Time magazine book critic and the author of the no...
Video: NBCC Membership Meeting: Digital Galleys/Digital Catalogues/Digital Everything
March 8, 2012 at the New School, New York, NY.
Video courtesy of Paige Zelinsky
Digital Galleys/Digital Catalogues/Digital Everything: How Publishers Are Interacting with Reviewers Today, with:
Katie Freeman, Publicity Manager, Fa...
Photos from NBCC Finalists Readings, Award Ceremony and Reception
All photos by David Shankbone. Click on images to view captions.
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Roundup: NBCC winners, Clarice Lispector, Michael Martone, more
Last Thursday’s National Book Critics Circle awards attracted plenty of coverage, including reports from the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and other outlets. At Commentary’s website, D.G. Myers weig...
Video: NBCC Finalists Reading for 2011 Awards
March 7, 2012, The New School, New York, NY
Video courtesy Chelsey Philpot
Welcome from Robert Polito, Director of Writing Programs at the New School, and introduction from Eric Banks, NBCC President.
Nonfiction readers (in the fo...
Video: National Book Critics Circle Award Ceremony for Publishing Year 2011
March 8, 2012 at Tishman Auditorium, The New School, New York, NY
Video courtesy of Chelsey Philpot
Welcome from Robert Polito, Director of Writing Programs at The New School, and introduction by Eric Banks, NBCC President.
Nona Balakian...
For Immediate Release: NBCC Award Winners for Publishing Year 2011
For release 7:00 p.m., Thursday, March 8, 2012
On Thursday, March 8, at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium, the National Book Critic Circle presented its awards for publishing year 2011. The prize in fiction went to Edith Pearlman for Bino...
