Live announcement of NBCC Awards finalists
January, 2010
Reminder—NBCC Finalists Announcement and Reception 7 PM Saturday
by Eric Banks | Jan-21-2010
Please join the NBCC in New York on Saturday for the announcement of finalists for the NBCC awards in autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, ...read »
NBCC Awards Finalists Announcement January 23
by Jane Ciabattari | Jan-07-2010
National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists Announcement
January 23, 2010 7:00 pm
126 Crosby Street New York, NY
Announcing the finalists for the ...read »
January, 2009
Final Literary and Elevated Thoughts—-do we have any?
by Maureen McLane | Jan-24-2009
Do support your local independent bookstores!
“Brush up your Shakespeare”!
“The best laid plans of mice and men/gang aft agley”—Burns
“A man’s a man for a’ ...read »
Wine, women, and song——and cats
by Maureen McLane | Jan-24-2009
and men, bread pudding, and books: again, what’s not to like?
People: LITERACY IS FUNDAMENTAL. As someone said…...
I realized I may have mis-inputted ...read »
More Bolaño attention…
by David Varno | Jan-24-2009
Poet Mónica de la Torre (who just left with Mary Jo Bang) is thrilled about the acclaim of 2666, which she deems “well deserving,” but had hoped that other ...read »
When you are tired of bread pudding you are tired of life…..
by Maureen McLane | Jan-24-2009
is what Samuel Johnson might have said.
Elizabeth Taylor and Adam Cohen survey the scene and go to canvas party-goers—they are commissioned to send friendly ...read »
BREAD PUDDING!! BREAD PUDDING!!! finally!!
by Maureen McLane | Jan-24-2009
Mara’s Homemade Bread Pudding with Bourbon sauce—local Cajun restaurant: it was delivered hot, Jane C. tell us: David Varno has gone AWOL for some bread ...read »
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