October, 2008
Robert Polito on Mixing Genres
by admin | Oct-07-2008
Robert Polito, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography for “Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson,” was one of the panelists for...read »
Bill Clinton Recommends…
by admin | Oct-06-2008
Over at Tina Brown’s new The Daily Beast, named after the newspaper in Evelyn Waugh’s “Scoop,” Bill Clinton is recommending three books that help explain the...read »
Roundup
by admin | Oct-05-2008
NBCC member and San Antonio playwright Gregg Barrios has a hit in Provincetown with his “Rancho Pancho” play, about Tennessee Williams and Pancho Rodriguez...read »
MARKIE LIVES!
by admin | Oct-02-2008
On today’s WNYC broadcast of the Leonard Lopate Show, Philip Roth discussed his new novel Indignation, Communist national anthems (!?!)*, desultory oral sex,...read »
Balakian Award Winning Critic Steven G. Kellman Honored in San Antonio
by admin | Oct-01-2008
Steven G. Kellman, longtime NBCC member, winner of the 2007 Nona Balakian award for excellence in reviewing, professor of comparative literature at the...read »
Brooklyn Reading Saturday Afternoont: Dalia Sofer
by admin | Oct-01-2008
Speaking of Brooklyn, NBCC member Charlotte Abbott is curating the new “Cosmopolis: Immigrant Writers in New York,” a free series at the Brooklyn Public...read »
September, 2008
“Name that Author,” Brooklyn, September 13 [6]
by admin | Sep-30-2008
NBCC president Jane Ciabattari honors “Name that Author” winner Brigid Hughes, who squeaked ahead of runners-up James Marcus and David L. Ulin. (In addition...read »
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