Interviews
June, 2010
James Lee Burke: “Louisiana Is Not the Past, It’s the Future”
by Jane Ciabattari | Jun-10-2010
James Lee Burke, whose Dave Robicheaux novels are set in New Iberia in southwest Louisiana and in New Orleans, has been on my mind while watching the latest ...read »
February, 2009
Talking with PEN America Journal’s Editor M Mark
by Jane Ciabattari | Feb-20-2009
PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers, is the publication of PEN American Center, winner of this year’s National Book Critics Circle Sandrof award ...read »
NYPD’s Ray Kelly: “Don’t Even Think of Attacking New York City”
by Jane Ciabattari | Feb-03-2009
Newsweek’s Christopher Dickey, author of “Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force—The NYPD,” sat down with New York Police ...read »
January, 2009
Remembering John Updike: James Marcus Talks with Updike about his “Bech” Novels
by Jane Ciabattari | Jan-27-2009
National Book Critics Circle board member James Marcus interviewed John Updike in 1998 about his “Bech” novels.
In 1970 John Updike unleashed his Jewish ...read »
December, 2008
SMALL PRESS SPOTLIGHT: ROBYN SCHIFF
by Rigoberto González | Dec-22-2008
Revolver, University of Iowa Press, 2008.
Robyn Schiff is the author of Worth (Iowa, 2002). She is an associate professor at the University of Iowa, where ...read »
November, 2008
SMALL PRESS SPOTLIGHT: KAREN AN-HWEI LEE
by NBCC | Nov-23-2008
Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of Ardor (Tupelo Press, 2008), In Medias Res (Sarabande Books, 2004), and a chapbook, God’s One Hundred Promises (Swan Scythe ...read »
And Winner #8, the Last Winner Is….
by NBCC | Nov-20-2008
Claudia Cornejo of Hanover, NH, sent in the correct answer to the eighth and last installment of the NBCC/Paris Review “Name that Author” contest at 6:50 am ...read »
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