National Book Critics Circle

August, 2008

8.8.08 Roundup

by admin | Aug-08-2008

NBCC board member David L. Ulin speaks about the annoying “embargo” question. NBCC member Donna Seaman finds Peter Ferry’s new novel, “Travel Writing,”...read »

A Summer Poem from Li-Young Lee

by admin | Aug-07-2008

I stopped by the Montgomery Place farmstand up the Hudson near Bard College yesterday to buy white peaches and Saturn peaches and zucchini blossoms still...read »

Roundup

by admin | Aug-03-2008

Several weeks back the Chicago Tribune book section, edited by NBCC board member Elizabeth Taylor, took a savvy appoach to inevitable change, soliciting...read »

SMALL PRESS SPOTLIGHT: CLAIRE KAGEYAMA-RAMAKRISHNAN

by admin | Aug-02-2008

Shadow Mountain, Four Way Books, 2008.Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan was born in Santa Monica and raised in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. in English from...read »

San Francisco State Poetry Center Award: Rigoberto Gonzalez

by admin | Aug-01-2008

NBCC board member and Critical Mass blogger Rigoberto Gonzalez has won the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award for his collection, “Other Fugitives...read »

Calling All Under-30 Reviewers

by admin | Aug-01-2008

To encourage and cultivate young reviewers and critics under the age of thirty, the Virginia Quarterly Review is holding a “Young Reviewers Contest” in...read »

July, 2008

“In My Jammies,” Chris Watson on Life after the Santa Cruz Sentinel

by admin | Jul-31-2008

NBCC member Chris Watson sends this dispatch from Santa Cruz, California:For over 30 years, I reviewed books, interviewed authors and submitted my Sunday book...read »

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