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January, 2009

Will anyone get us humble livebloggers some bread pudding? WILL THEY????

by Maureen McLane | Jan-24-2009

The lights are modishly dim still here at Housing Works, creating that subtle moody atmosphere conducive to book talk, and possible hookups…... Back to high...read »

Eric Banks here at blogging station…...thoughts about poets past and present…..

by Maureen McLane | Jan-24-2009

About the evening, Eric Banks, Board Director, opines: “It was really memorable!” Nothing else to add. Except: “I wish we had Scotch.” Which brings me to...read »

Agnostic re: “Twitter”

by Maureen McLane | Jan-24-2009

Let it be recorded that the NBCC has as of yet no official opinion re: “Twitter.” David Varno: “I don’t Twitter, but I know what it...read »

Jefferson required an informed citizenry…....Bill Henderson here…threat of ZOMBIES!!!!

by Maureen McLane | Jan-24-2009

Bill Henderson opines, re the Atmosphere: “Very friendly very funky and very dedicated.” Then with regret—-“An assemblage of people who get paid almost...read »

Biography Finalists

by David Varno | Jan-24-2009

Paul J. Giddings, Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, Amistad Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in an...read »

Fiction Finalists

by David Varno | Jan-24-2009

Roberto Bolaño, 2666. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Marilynne Robinson, Home, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project, Riverhead M....read »

Nonfiction Finalists

by David Varno | Jan-24-2009

Dexter Filkins, The Forever War, Knopf Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering, Knopf Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Doubleday Allan Lichtman, White...read »

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