May, 2012

NBCC Reads: Geoff Dyer’s Favorite Works of Literary Journalism

by Mark Athitakis | May-04-2012

Next week we'll begin posting responses we received to the spring NBCC Reads question: What is your favorite work of literary journalism? To get the ball...read »

Small Press Spotlight: Douglas Ray

by Rigoberto Gonzalez | May-02-2012

Author Photo: Jane Rule Burdine He Will Laugh, Lethe Press, 2012. Douglas Ray, a 2010 Lambda Literary Foundation poetry fellow, teaches at Indian...read »

April, 2012

Roundup: Los Angeles Festival of Books, Daniel Sada, Anna Quindlen, more

by Mark Athitakis | Apr-30-2012

Last weekend marked the 17th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which attracted plenty of big names, including NBCC nonfiction winner Steve Lopez,...read »

NBCC at PEN World Voices Festival May 3

by Mark Athitakis | Apr-24-2012

The weeklong PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature kicks off next Monday, April 30, in New York. The National Book Critics Circle will be...read »

Roundup: The Fiction (Non-) Pulitzer and More

by Mark Athitakis | Apr-23-2012

Last week’s news that there would be no Pulitzer Prize awarded in fiction produced an avalanche of commentary. Here’s a sampling of what people were saying...read »

LA Review of Books Relaunches

by Mark Athitakis | Apr-19-2012

Yesterday the Los Angeles Review of Books launched its brand-new website, moving fromTumblr to a robust, comments-enabled platform. LARB editor Tom Lutz...read »

Roundup: Robert Caro, E-Reading, Joe R. Lansdale, and More

by Mark Athitakis | Apr-16-2012

“It’s not a question of liking or disliking him. I’m trying to explain how political power worked in America in the second half of the 20th century, and...read »

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