July, 2008
WILL THE LAST BOOK REVIEW EDITOR TURN OUT THE LIGHTS?
by admin | Jul-21-2008
More lousy news from the land of newspaper book-review sections: PW reports that NBCC member Carole Goldberg, books editor at the Hartford Courant since 2002,...read »
“DISMAYED AND TROUBLED…”
by admin | Jul-21-2008
On the LA Observed blog, past LA Times book editors Sonja Bolle, Digby Diehl, Jack Miles, and Steve Wasserman have released the contents of their letter...read »
SMALL PRESS SPOTLIGHT: R. ZAMORA LINMARK
by admin | Jul-18-2008
The Evolution of a Sigh, Hanging Loose Press, 2008.R. Zamora Linmark is the author of Prime Time Apparitions and Rolling the R’s, which he adapted for the...read »
FRIDAY ROUNDUP
by admin | Jul-18-2008
In The Nation, Eric Alterman writes on the future of newspapers. “The dearth of decent ideas designed to save newspapers—or reinvent them for the digital age...read »
CRITICAL LIBRARY: ROBERT POLITO
by admin | Jul-17-2008
The National Book Critics Circle regularly posts a list of five books a critic believes reviewers should have in their libraries. We recently heard from...read »
IN RETROSPECT: JACKSON LEARS
by admin | Jul-15-2008
The following essay by NBCC member Tim Brown on “No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920,” by T.J. Jackson...read »
Trib-ulations
by admin | Jul-15-2008
The pace accelerates as Sam Zell, new owner of the Tribune Company, continues to dismantle the news organizations built over years. In what Tribune employees...read »
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