Denise Low Speculates on the Next Decade in Book Culture
Commentary and remarks from the NBCC's June 8 "Next Decade in Book Culture" event at the Johnson County Library in Kansas, from panelist Denise Low. Low will be reading from her poetry collection, Ghost Stories of the New West: From Einstein&rs...
Report on “Next Decade in Book Culture” at Johnson County Library in Kansas June 8
Moderator John Mark Eberhart filed this report on last week's "Next Decade in Book Culture" event in Kansas.
Readers of traditional books and the electronic versions are not necessarily at war with one another. In fact, in many cases they&rsq...
NBCC “Next Decade in Book Culture” at Johnson County Library in Kansas
What will happen to the book by the year 2020? Will it be a memory? A curiosity? Or still going strong despite electronic devices such as Kindle and Nook?
As part of a national series of events on this subject, Johnson County Library presents an ...
Carsten Jensen on the Critic and the Internet
Former book reviewer Carsten Jensen offered a Danish perspective on the state of book reviewing today in the National Book Critics Circle's PEN World Voices 2011 conversation (video here). He also offered an apt metaphor for the democratization...
Morris Dickstein on The Next Decade in Book Culture
In his 2007 book of essays, A Mirror in the Roadway, Morris Dickstein asked,"Why write about literature?" (Not to be rewarded with money, fame, and love....nor to be widely read, he noted.) “Critics write about literature for the same reasons writers write about anything. For the pleasure of forming graceful sentences that sort out their...
Cynthia Ozick on the State of Literary Criticism Today
In her 2006 essay collection The Din in the Head, Cynthia Ozick writes of 'this persistent internal hum" that is set off "by the individual's solitary engagement with an intimate text." She also writes that "it is still possible to se...
Save the Date: NBCC at PEN World Voices Festival, April 25-May 1, 2011
The National Book Critics Circle is sponsoring two special presentations at the upcoming PEN World Voices Festival, APril 25 to May 1, 2011, in New York City.
1. The work of critics will be highlighted at this year's festival by a group of &...
Podcast: Book Reviews, Revamped
Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times Book Review have all reinvented their book review sections. As part of a National Book Critics Circle conversation at the Center For Fiction, the...
Book Reviews, Revamped
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Guest Post from Curt Schleier: Are you ready for e-Galleys?
NBCC member Curt Schleier responds to Question 4 in our series:
I've seen e-books (friends have Kindles) but never read one. So I may be wrong, but as far as I know:
1) You cannot fold down the corner of ebook pages where there are p...
Guest Post by Allen Barra: Are you ready for e-galleys?
NBCC member Allen Barra answers Quesiont #4 in our ongoing series:
Having no experience yet with e-galleys, all I can say is that my job is difficult enough already without having to learn to do it a different way. I imagine I will...
Coming Up: NBCC Conversation on Future of Reading at Book Passage in San Francisco
National Book Critics Circle Conversation, The Next Decade in Book Culture, at Book Passage, San Francisco
When: November 3, 2010 7 pm
Where: Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building # 42 San Francisco, CA 94111-4231
Is reading on the decline? Many thi...
