The National Book Critics Circle Award
2008 NBCC Award Winners
Criticism
Seth Lerer
Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter
(University of Chicago Press)
Autobiography
Ariel Sabar
My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
(Algonquin)
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30 Books in 30 Days: Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, by Benjamin Moser
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Thirty Books in Thirty Days
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Guest Post: Michael Antman on the Next Decade in Book Culture
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