December, 2007
What the Booksellers at Books & Books are Recommending
by NBCC | Dec-13-2007
Brother, I’m Dying (memoir)By Edwidge DanticatKnopfEdwidge Danticat’s direct writing style lends an intimacy and an honesty to Brother, I’m Dying. As ...read »
Around the World with the NBCC
by NBCC | Dec-13-2007
NBCC fiction prize winner Jonathan Lethem goes sentence-mad in “The New Yorker.” Member Marco Roth takes a bite out of the new Coetzee while over at Slate ...read »
Attention NBCC Members:
by NBCC | Dec-12-2007
We’ve recently sent out ballots (via email) for voting on the 2007 NBCC book awards and the 2007 board elections. If you haven’t received these ballots or are ...read »
Preview 2008: Kathryn Harrison’s “While They Slept”
by NBCC | Dec-12-2007
The following is excerpted from “While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family” by NBCC member and Balakian award finalist Kathryn Harrison, to be ...read »
Eat Pray Sell
by NBCC | Dec-12-2007
Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal’s Jeffrey Trachtenberg published a story on the phenomenon of former NBCC finalist Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray ...read »
What Are You Recommending, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc?
by NBCC | Dec-12-2007
LAST week, the NBCC launched a Best Recommended List, drawn from the votes of our members and over a hundred former finalists and winners of our award. (For ...read »
What Are You Recommending, James Polk?
by NBCC | Dec-12-2007
LAST week, the NBCC launched a Best Recommended List, drawn from the votes of our members and over a hundred former finalists and winners of our award. (For ...read »
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