National Book Critics Circle

January, 2012

NBCC Reads: David Abrams’ favorite book about work

by admin | Jan-27-2012

Work is the all-American pastime, taking more and more of our waking hours, and infiltrating our sleep. It’s been grist for books from Studs Turkel’s...read »

NBCC Reads: Brenda Wineapple’s favorite book about work

by admin | Jan-26-2012

Work is the all-American pastime, taking more and more of our waking hours, and infiltrating our sleep. It’s been grist for books from Studs Turkel’s...read »

Save the Dates: NBCC awards finalists’ reading, membership meeting, awards ceremony, March 7-8

by Jane Ciabattari | Jan-24-2012

National Book Critics Circle awards season begins. Thirty finalists in six categories as well as the recipients of the Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime...read »

Announcing the NBCC Nonfiction Finalists: Siddhartha Mukherjee

by Jane Ciabattari | Jan-24-2012

Thirty NBCC finalists were announced Saturday night at Artists Space in Soho after an all-day board meeting at which 25 NBCC board members cast their...read »

Chicago Tribune Brings Back Sunday Book Review

by Jane Ciabattari | Jan-24-2012

The Chicago Tribune is re-introducing its Sunday book review on February 26 as a 24-page stand-alone publication with reviews, interviews, and short...read »

Roundup: NBCC finalists, Aharon Appelfeld, Kjersti Skomsvold, more

by Mark Athitakis | Jan-23-2012

Last Saturday the NBCC announced the finalists for its book awards. Here at Critical Mass, you can see the full list of finalists in all six book...read »

Video: NBCC 2011 Finalists Annoucements at Artists Space, NYC

by David Varno | Jan-21-2012

This video, taken earlier tonight at Artists Space in New York, NY, shows the NBCC 2011 Awards finalists announced in six categories, by 2010 NBCC winners...read »

Page 2 of 235 pages < 1 2 3 4 > Last ›

About the Critical Mass Blog

Commentary on literary criticism, publishing, writing, and all things NBCC related. It's written by independent members of the NBCC Board of Directors (see list of bloggers below).

Subscribe

Follow @bookcritics

Categories & Archives

Upcoming Events

National Book Critics Circle at the AWP in Chicago: March 02nd, 2012

National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists Reading: March 07th, 2012

National Book Critics Circle Annual Membership Meeting: March 08th, 2012

National Book Critics Circle Annual Membership Lunch: March 08th, 2012 BUY TICKETS

National Book Critics Circle Awards Ceremony and Reception: March 08th, 2012 BUY TICKETS

NBCC Awards

See all award winners

Find out how to submit

Read how we select

Frequently Asked Questions

Awards news

Make a tax deductible donation to the NBCC

The postings on this blog represent the views and opinions of each individual poster and are not representative of views held by the National Book Critics Circle as an organization, or the NBCC board as a whole. Everything on this blog is copyright protected

Online Committee

Links

What books are eligible for the award?

We grant awards in six categories: Autobiography, Biography, Criticism, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. The nonfiction category is perhaps the most complicated: We do not give awards for titles that have been previously published in English (re-issues, paperback editions, etc.), and we generally do not consider cookbooks, self help books (including inspirational literature), reference books, picture books or children’s books. But we do consider translations, short story and essay collections, self published books, and any titles that fall under the general categories above.