October, 2008

Geoffrey O’Brien on Merging Genres

by admin | Oct-08-2008

Geoffrey O’Brien, who was a finalist for the NBCC award in criticism for his “The Phantom Empire,“was one of the panelists for the September 12 NBCC “Merging...read »

Scott McLemee’s Ig-Nobel Post

by admin | Oct-08-2008

Meanwhile over at insidehighered.com, NBCC board member Scott McLemee gathers grist on the Nobel brouhaha.Labels: Industry News...read »

Robert Polito on Mixing Genres

by admin | Oct-07-2008

Robert Polito, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography for “Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson,” was one of the panelists for...read »

Bill Clinton Recommends…

by admin | Oct-06-2008

Over at Tina Brown’s new The Daily Beast, named after the newspaper in Evelyn Waugh’s “Scoop,” Bill Clinton is recommending three books that help explain the...read »

Roundup

by admin | Oct-05-2008

NBCC member and San Antonio playwright Gregg Barrios has a hit in Provincetown with his “Rancho Pancho” play, about Tennessee Williams and Pancho Rodriguez...read »

MARKIE LIVES!

by admin | Oct-02-2008

On today’s WNYC broadcast of the Leonard Lopate Show, Philip Roth discussed his new novel Indignation, Communist national anthems (!?!)*, desultory oral sex,...read »

Balakian Award Winning Critic Steven G. Kellman Honored in San Antonio

by admin | Oct-01-2008

Steven G. Kellman, longtime NBCC member, winner of the 2007 Nona Balakian award for excellence in reviewing, professor of comparative literature at the...read »

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