30 Books in 30 Days Archive

Each year, Critical Mass highlights on a daily basis the thirty books selected as finalists for our annual awards in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Criticism, Biography, and Autobiography.  

NBCC Board Members on Awards Finalists, 2006 - 2009 (PDF Archive)

NBCC Board Members on Awards Finalists, 2010

NBCC Board Members on Awards Finalists, 2011

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Annual Membership Meeting: May 29th, 2013

Panel: New Literary Journals: May 29th, 2013

Panel: The VIDA Count and Gender Bias in Book Reviewing: May 29th, 2013

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From the Critical Mass blog

Monday Roundup: Allen Guelzo, Nathaniel Philbrick, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and more

At the Boston Globe, Jan Gardner looks at pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton's memoir. Also at the Globe, Julia M. Klein reviews M.E. Thomas'

Reminder: National Book Critics Circle BEA Events

ANNUAL NBCC MEMBERSHIP MEETING May 29, 1:30pm Center for Fiction, 17 East 47th Street The 2013 annual meeting of the National Book Critics

Roundup: Reviews of Gail Godwin and more; plus Robert Caro and Stephen Colbert discuss LBJ’s penis

VIDEO: LBJ's penis and more: 2012 NBCC Biography Award winner Robert Caro gets the Colbert Report treatment. "A Tale of Remorse that Creeps Under

Roundup: More Rachel Shteir kerfuffle and reviews of Sedaris, Angelou and others

Congratulations to all the new 2013 Guggenheim Fellows connected to the NBCC: NBCC fiction winner Kiran Desai, NBCC nonfiction winner Maya
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