NBCC 2011 Criticism Finalists presented by Elif Batuman

by David Varno | Jan-21-2012

2010 NBCC criticism finalist Elif Batuman (The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them) announced the criticism finalists:

David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Faber & Faber)

Geoff Dyer, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews (Graywolf)

Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence (Doubleday)

Dubravka Ugresic, Karaoke Culture (Open Letter)

Ellen Willis, Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music (University of Minnesota Press)




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