February, 2008
What Are You Recommending, Christina Eng?
by NBCC | Feb-05-2008
Today, the NBCC launched our winter Good Reads list, drawn from the votes of our members and over a hundred former finalists and winners of our award. (For ...read »
AWP Keynote: John Irving begins at the end (and answers some questions)
by NBCC | Feb-04-2008
John Irving explicated his penchant for writing the last sentences of his novels first, then working backwards, in his often witty keynote speech at the AWP ...read »
In Retrospect: On Mating & Memory
by NBCC | Feb-04-2008
The following essay on Norman Rush’s “Mating” by Swarthmore College history professor Tim Burke is the second of three posts in the In Retrospect series which ...read »
What Are You Reading Online? Samuel Pepys Blog
by NBCC | Feb-03-2008
I first heard of the wonderfully lecherous 17th century Naval administrator Samuel Pepys and his famous diary from Helene Hanff’s sweet collection of ...read »
NBCC Awards Finalist in Nonfiction: Philip F. Gura’s “American Transcendentalism”
by NBCC | Feb-01-2008
This is the eighth in a series of blog posts by NBCC board members covering the finalists for the NBCC awards. The awards will be announced on March 6, 2008, ...read »
What Are You Reading in Paris?
by NBCC | Feb-01-2008
NBCC member Lauren Elkin, a PhD candidate at the Graduate Center CUNY and the Université de Paris VII, sent us this dispatch from Tokyo, about what she is ...read »
January, 2008
The Artist Formerly Known as…The Best Recommended
by NBCC | Jan-31-2008
LAST NOVEMBER, the NBCC launched The Best Recommended List, a project we hope becomes an alternative for bestseller lists. Why do we need another option? ...read »
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