September, 2010
Dispatch from NBCC Reads Conversation in Corte Madera, California
by Jane Ciabattari | Sep-05-2010
A passionate group of readers showed up at Book Passage in Corte Madera, California in early August to talk about the most memorable books about conjugal ...read »
Save the Date: NBCC at Lit Crawl New York, September 11, 8:15 pm
by Jane Ciabattari | Sep-01-2010
Lit Quake's NYC Lit Crawl Presents: National Book Critics Revise and Recant
Start:
September 11, 2010 8:15 pm
End:
September 11, ...read »
August, 2010
Save the Date: NBCC at Brooklyn Book Festival, September 12, 5 pm.
by Jane Ciabattari | Aug-31-2010
Brooklyn Book Festival, September 12, 2010
5:00, MAINSTAGE, Brooklyn Borough Hall.
NBCC “Name that Author” returns to the book festival with 2008 ...read »
Still Thinking About New Orleans
by Jane Ciabattari | Aug-29-2010
On this fifth anniversary of the beginning of the devastation that we now simply call Katrina, I'm posting links to Thinking About New Orleans, the Critical ...read »
Small Press Spotlight: Aaron Michael Morales
by Rigoberto González | Aug-27-2010
PHOTO CREDIT: RACHEL WEDDING McCLELLAND
Drowning Tucson, Coffee House Press, 2010.
Aaron Michael Morales grew up in Tucson and now teaches writing ...read »
Roundup: August 25, 2010
by Bethanne Patrick | Aug-26-2010
Grace Talusan’s debut review in The Boston globe of Emily Fox Gordon’s “Book of Days: Personal Essays:”
This new collection of her work over the ...read »
In Retrospect: Vince Passaro on Joyce Johnson’s “Minor Characters”
by Vince Passaro | Aug-25-2010
In Critical Mass's ongoing "In Retrospect," in which contemporary critics revisit former winners and finalists for the National Book Critics Awards, Vince ...read »
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