NBCC Reads
November, 2009
NBCC Reads at Prairie Lights Books in Iowa City: Why Translation Matters
by Jane Ciabattari | Nov-17-2009
Podcast of the November 9 NBCC Reads event, "Why Translation Matters," at Prairie Lights Books in Iowa City, with Sarah Fay, Christopher Merrill, Cole ...read »
October, 2009
Guest Post by Scott Esposito: Report on the NBCC Reads/Litquake/ City Lights Translation Panel
by Jane Ciabattari | Oct-19-2009
Scott Esposito edits the online magazine of book reviews and essays the Quarterly Conversation. He’s written on literature for various publications and blogs ...read »
NBCC Reads: Translation Panel, San Francisco, October 13
by Eric Banks | Oct-07-2009
NBCC READS: Translation Panel
National Book Critics Circle, Litquake, and City Lights present
Collapsing Borders: Reading Global Culture Through Literary ...read »
September, 2009
NBCC Reads Event in San Antonio, October 2
by Eric Banks | Sep-25-2009
Translation: ¿Qué pasa?
An NBCC Reads Event
Friday, October 2, 7:00
Sponsor: Department of English, University of Texas at San Antonio
Co-sponsors: ...read »
July, 2009
NBCC Reads, Long Tail: Parul Hinzen and Leora Skolkin-Smith
by James Marcus | Jul-31-2009
Continuing with with the Long Tail series, we have suggestions from critic Parul Hinzen and from Leora Skolkin-Smith, whose novel Edges was published in 2005. ...read »
NBCC Reads, Spring 2009: Long Tail—Ted Gioia and Jamie Brown
by James Marcus | Jul-16-2009
Rolling on with the Long Tail series, we have suggestions from Ted Gioia, whose The Birth (and Death) of the Cool will be published in November, and from ...read »
June, 2009
NBCC Reads, Spring 2009: Jim Gibbons and Susan Larson
by James Marcus | Jun-30-2009
To continue the Long Tail series, we have suggestions from Jim Gibbons and from Susan Larson of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. (You can read the earlier, ...read »
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