February, 2008
What Are You Recommending, Todd Shy?
by NBCC | Feb-17-2008
NBCC members and finalists and winners of our book award were eligible to vote in the winter edition of the NBCC’s Good Reads. Critic and teacher Todd Shy ...read »
Around the World With the NBCC
by NBCC | Feb-16-2008
Former NBCC finalist Steven Pinker—a panelist at the Cambridge Good Reads event—talks to a sharp student from the Crimson, answering questions about the ...read »
What Are You Recommending, Grace Schulman?
by NBCC | Feb-16-2008
NBCC members and finalists and winners of our book award were eligible to vote in the winter edition of the NBCC’s Good Reads. Member poet and critic Grace ...read »
NBCC Good Reads Event in Sag Habor Today
by NBCC | Feb-16-2008
Sag Harbor, NYCanio’s Books290 Main Street6PM: (631) 725-4926NBCC board member Jane Ciabattari will moderate the discussion, with panelists including NBCC ...read »
What Are You Recommending, Barabra Berman?
by NBCC | Feb-16-2008
NBCC members and finalists and winners of our book award were eligible to vote in the winter edition of the NBCC’s Good Reads. Poet and critic Barbara Berman, ...read »
NBCC Awards Finalists in Fiction:Hisham Matar’s “In the Country of Men”
by NBCC | Feb-15-2008
This is the twelfth in a series of blog posts by NBCC board members covering the finalists for the NBCC awards. The awards will be announced on March 6, 2008, ...read »
In Retrospect: Charles Baxter on William T. Vollmann’s Europe Central
by NBCC | Feb-15-2008
The following essay by novelist Charles Baxter continues the NBCC’s In Retrospect series with a look back at William T. Vollmann’s “Europe Central,” a ...read »
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