February, 2009
Roundup
by Jane Ciabattari | Feb-11-2009
Doris Lessing, an NBCC finalist for memoir (and a Nobel laureate), recalls her mother putting her in charge of sitting hen on their “our farm in the old...read »
2008 Biography Finalist White Heat, by Brenda Wineapple
by Jane Ciabattari | Feb-11-2009
Each day leading up to the March 12 announcement of the 2008 NBCC awards, we highlight one of the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member and president...read »
2008 Poetry Finalist Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected, by August Kleinzahler
by Kevin Prufer | Feb-10-2009
Each day leading up to the March 12 announcement of the 2008 NBCC awards, we highlight one of the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Kevin Prufer...read »
30 Books/30 Days: 2008 Fiction Finalist Home, by Marilynne Robinson
by admin | Feb-10-2009
Like all the parables in the New Testament, the story of the prodigal son poses more questions than it answers. Yes, the power of mercy is laid out like the...read »
2008 Fiction Finalist Home, by Marilynne Robinson
by admin | Feb-09-2009
Each day leading up to the March 12 announcement of the 2008 NBCC awards, we highlight one of the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Ellen Heltzel...read »
Thirty Books in Thirty Days
by Eric Banks | Feb-09-2009
Beginning tomorrow, we’ll highlight on a daily basis the thirty books selected as the 2008 finalists for our annual awards. A full list of the finalists in...read »
Roundup
by Jane Ciabattari | Feb-05-2009
Scott McLemee invokes Robertson Davies (“mind on fire”).
In the Austin Statesman, Edward Nawotka finds Texas oilmen stories in Bryan Burrough’s The Big Rich...read »
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