NBCC Awards Week, March 8-10, 2011

by Jane Ciabattari | Feb-18-2011

National Book Critics Circle Awards Week, March 2011:

March 8, 2011 7 pm

NBCC Finalists in Conversation. Free and open to the public.

March 8, 7 pm, Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York (between 34th and 35th Streets)

NBCC biography and autobiography finalists in conversation with biography committee chair Eric Banks and autobiography committee cochair Rigoberto González: With biography finalists Sarah Bakewell, Yunte Huang, and Tom Powers, autobiography finalists Kai Bird, Darin Strauss, Patti Smith and Reiko Rehna Rizzuto. Hosted by Brenda Wineapple.

NBCC Finalists in Conversation. Free and open to the public.

March 8, 7 pm, Regina Peruggi Room, Marymount Manhattan College, 221 E. 71st Street, New York

NBCC nonfiction and criticism finalists in conversation with nonfiction committee chair Art Winslow and criticism committee chair John Reed: With nonfiction finalists Siddhartha Mukherjee and Isabel Wilkerson, criticism finalists Clare Cavanagh, Susie Linfield, and Ander Monson, and others. Hosted by Jerry Williams.

March 9, NBCC finalists reading, 6 pm. The New School, 66 West 12th Street, New York

Readers include: fiction finalists Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, David Grossman, translator Damion Searles reading for Hans Keilson, and Donna Tartt reading for Paul Murray; biography finalists Sarah Bakewell, Yunte Huang, and Thomas Powers; criticism finalists Elif Batuman, Terry Castle, Clare Cavanagh, Susie Linfield, and Ander Monson; nonfiction finalists S.C. Gwynne, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Isabel Wilkerson; autobiography finalists Kai Bird, Christopher Hitchens, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Darin Strauss, and Patti Smith; poetry finalists Anne Carson, Kathleen Graber, Terrance Hayes, and Kay Ryan.

March 10, NBCC awards ceremony, 6 pm. The New School, 66 West 12th St, New York