October, 2008
HOW TO READ BOOKS YOU HAVEN’T TALKED ABOUT?
by admin | Oct-10-2008
Remember Pierre Bayard’s How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read, the charming prevarication of a title that launched an apparently infinite number of no...read »
Coming Next Week: NBCC Honors PEN Beyond Margins Awards Celebrating Writers of Color
by admin | Oct-09-2008
PEN BEYOND MARGINS AWARDS: Celebrating Writers of Color
Tuesday, October 147 p.m.
Bruno Walter Auditorium:Library for the Performing Arts
Entrance at 111...read »
Geoffrey O’Brien on Merging Genres
by admin | Oct-08-2008
Geoffrey O’Brien, who was a finalist for the NBCC award in criticism for his “The Phantom Empire,“was one of the panelists for the September 12 NBCC “Merging...read »
Scott McLemee’s Ig-Nobel Post
by admin | Oct-08-2008
Meanwhile over at insidehighered.com, NBCC board member Scott McLemee gathers grist on the Nobel brouhaha.Labels: Industry News...read »
Robert Polito on Mixing Genres
by admin | Oct-07-2008
Robert Polito, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography for “Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson,” was one of the panelists for...read »
Bill Clinton Recommends…
by admin | Oct-06-2008
Over at Tina Brown’s new The Daily Beast, named after the newspaper in Evelyn Waugh’s “Scoop,” Bill Clinton is recommending three books that help explain the...read »
Roundup
by admin | Oct-05-2008
NBCC member and San Antonio playwright Gregg Barrios has a hit in Provincetown with his “Rancho Pancho” play, about Tennessee Williams and Pancho Rodriguez...read »
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