July, 2008

Summer Reading: Heller McAlpin

by admin | Jul-30-2008

Perhaps it’s a critic thing: Even when reading at leisure (as opposed to on assignment), I tend to divide literature into two broad categories: books I wish...read »

LATBR: 2 Questions for David L. Ulin

by admin | Jul-29-2008

News of the changes in the Los Angeles Times Book Review continues to swirl after the publication of the last stand-alone LATBR on Sunday. Yesterday the Los...read »

LA TIMES BOOK REVIEW UPDATE

by admin | Jul-28-2008

In Publisher’s Weekly, editor Sara Nelson looks in on the situation at the LA Times Book Review and talks with David Ulin: “Editorially and aesthetically,...read »

SMALL PRESS SPOTLIGHT: ANNECY BAEZ

by admin | Jul-26-2008

My Daughter’s Eyes and Other Stories, Curbstone Press.Annecy Baez is the winner of the 2007 Curbstone Press Marmol Prize for First Latina Fiction. Her Recent...read »

AMERICA’S BUSIEST POET

by admin | Jul-25-2008

Pity the poet laureate? In Time, Sarah Fay looks at Kay Ryan and the duties of the new post. The experience is practically “On the Circuit.”Labels: Kay Ryan,...read »

THANKS, AND ONWARD: CAROLE GOLDBERG

by admin | Jul-25-2008

We recently heard from NBCC member Carole Goldberg and the Hartford Courant’s editorial cutbacks, which included her position as books editor. After 23 years...read »

“A DEBT OF HONOR-SKIPPED OUT ON”

by admin | Jul-23-2008

In his Intellectual Affairs column at Inside Higher Ed, NBCC board member Scott McLemee laments the continued evisceration of book-review sections.Labels:...read »

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