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December, 2009
David L. Ulin on the Writing and Reading in the First Decade of the 21st Century
by Eric Banks | Dec-20-2009
Beginning this week, we'll begin highlighting the responses to the NBCC query recently sent out to members: How do you see book culture evolving over the ...read »
Scott McLemee Talks to Marcela Valdes About Roberto Bolaño
by Eric Banks | Dec-17-2009
In his "Intellectual Affairs" column, NBCC board member Scott McLemee wrote yesterday about his conversation with Marcela Valdes, herself a former board ...read »
Kirkus and the “Element of Surprise”
by Eric Banks | Dec-11-2009
Reacting to the shuttering of Kirkus, which published in the neighborhood of 5,000 advance reviews annually, Mark Athitakis celebrates the “element of ...read »
November, 2009
PEN Beyond Margins
by Eric Banks | Nov-19-2009
PEN American Center Presents:
CROSSING OVER:
THE 2009 PEN BEYOND MARGINS CELEBRATION
An evening of readings and conversation honoring recent Oprah ...read »
Reading and Wrestling in Seattle
by Mary Ann Gwinn | Nov-05-2009
Books still rule in Seattle, and if you want to argue about it, these two guys with wrestling in their genes might just take you to the mat on the ...read »
Geoff Dyer on John Cheever
by Eric Banks | Nov-02-2009
Interesting review-essay online at the Guardian: Geoff Dyer, an NBCC finalist in Criticism in 1999 for his Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence ...read »
Guest Post by Margaret Atwood: To the Whiting Award Winners, 2009
by Margaret Atwood | Nov-01-2009
Margaret Atwood's new novel "The Year of the Flood," was published this fall. She is the author of more than 40 works of fiction, poetry, children's books ...read »
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