July, 2008

AMERICA’S BUSIEST POET

by admin | Jul-25-2008

Pity the poet laureate? In Time, Sarah Fay looks at Kay Ryan and the duties of the new post. The experience is practically “On the Circuit.”Labels: Kay Ryan,...read »

THANKS, AND ONWARD: CAROLE GOLDBERG

by admin | Jul-25-2008

We recently heard from NBCC member Carole Goldberg and the Hartford Courant’s editorial cutbacks, which included her position as books editor. After 23 years...read »

“A DEBT OF HONOR-SKIPPED OUT ON”

by admin | Jul-23-2008

In his Intellectual Affairs column at Inside Higher Ed, NBCC board member Scott McLemee laments the continued evisceration of book-review sections.Labels:...read »

WILL THE LAST BOOK REVIEW EDITOR TURN OUT THE LIGHTS?

by admin | Jul-21-2008

More lousy news from the land of newspaper book-review sections: PW reports that NBCC member Carole Goldberg, books editor at the Hartford Courant since 2002,...read »

“DISMAYED AND TROUBLED…”

by admin | Jul-21-2008

On the LA Observed blog, past LA Times book editors Sonja Bolle, Digby Diehl, Jack Miles, and Steve Wasserman have released the contents of their letter...read »

SMALL PRESS SPOTLIGHT: R. ZAMORA LINMARK

by admin | Jul-18-2008

The Evolution of a Sigh, Hanging Loose Press, 2008.R. Zamora Linmark is the author of Prime Time Apparitions and Rolling the R’s, which he adapted for the...read »

FRIDAY ROUNDUP

by admin | Jul-18-2008

In The Nation, Eric Alterman writes on the future of newspapers. “The dearth of decent ideas designed to save newspapers—or reinvent them for the digital age...read »

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