Roundups
August, 2009
roundup
by Jane Ciabattari | Aug-26-2009
Morris Dickstein explains that the title of his new book does not come from a Bruce Springsteen song.
John Freeman wonders if we should slow down…“The ...read »
Roundup, Pynchon Edition
by Eric Banks | Aug-11-2009
NBCC members are weighing in on the new Thomas Pynchon and his new novel Inherent Vice. Here are Art Winslow in the Chicago Tribune, Rayyan Al-Shawaf in the ...read »
July, 2009
Roundup
by Eric Banks | Jul-23-2009
NBCC Balakian award winner George Scialabba reviews the “excellent” new biography of Ignazio Silone by Stanislao Pugliese, Bitter Spring.
Well before the ...read »
Roundup!
by Eric Banks | Jul-12-2009
NBCC member John Madera sends along word of several new reviews: At The Rumpus, he’s recently written on Chelsea Martin’s Everything Was Fine Until Whatever ...read »
June, 2009
Roundup
by Jane Ciabattari | Jun-29-2009
James Marcus surfing a wave of attention for his booty-shaking Philip Roth sampling, drawn from his Roth interview last September: The Guardian, the NY Times, ...read »
Catchup Roundup
by Jane Ciabattari | Jun-12-2009
Former NBCC president John Freeman moves from American editor to acting editor to editor of Granta. Freeman in the New York Observer here. Granta 106 is a ...read »
May, 2009
Celebratory Roundup!
by Jane Ciabattari | May-22-2009
As summer’s official start is upon us, some good news among NBCCers.
Outgoing NBCC board member Marcela Valdes is a new Nieman, class of 2010, with an arts ...read »
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