Roundups
July, 2008
Sunday Roundup
by admin | Jul-12-2008
Lara Vapnyar is one of the increasingly impressive roster of authors who have emigrated from Russia and other Eastern European countries and are now...read »
Wednesday Roundup
by admin | Jul-09-2008
Balakian award winner Sam Anderson on “a history of hooch”:
“The popular history of a humdrum object—that faddish genre in which the most boring items on...read »
July 4th Roundup
by admin | Jul-04-2008
July 4th. A relatively somber Independence Day this year, with escalating gas prices, soaring unemployment rates (and not a few newspaper book pages and...read »
Wednesday Roundup
by admin | Jul-02-2008
NBCC board member Art Winslow on Ethan Canin’s “America, America:”“It seems but a minor stretch—if that—to speculate that the seemingly redundant title of...read »
June, 2008
Some Good News from NPR.org
by admin | Jun-30-2008
After the gloomy notices on Friday of rumored cutbacks in book review pages in the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune—as well as the apparent demise of the...read »
Friday Roundup P.S.
by admin | Jun-27-2008
And upcoming in the New York Times Sunday Book Review:
NBCC member William Logan on Frank O’Hara’s “Selected Poems,” can’t resist “LANA TURNER HAS...read »
Friday Roundup
by admin | Jun-27-2008
NBCC fiction finalist Aleksandar Hemon has a way cool website for his new novel, “The Lazarus Project”—bells, whistles, accordion, melodica, words from the...read »
About the Critical Mass Blog
Commentary on literary criticism, publishing, writing, and all things NBCC related. It's written by independent members of the NBCC Board of Directors (see list of bloggers below).
Subscribe
Follow @bookcritics
via RSS feedCategories & Archives
- Adventures in E-Reading |
- Awards |
- 2007 Awards |
- 2008 Awards |
- 30 Books in 30 Days |
- Live announcement of NBCC Awards finalists |
- 2009 Awards |
- 2010 Awards |
- 2011 Awards |
- 31 Books in 31 Days |
- What I'm Looking Forward to Reading |
- Celebrating Philip Roth |
- Conversations with Literary Websites |
- Articles |
- Craft |
- Critical Library |
- Criticism |
- Critical Outtakes: Discussions With Writers |
- In Retrospect |
- Industry News |
- Interviews |
- NBCC Campaign to Save Book Reviews |
- NBCC 35th Anniversary |
- NBCC Featured Review |
- NBCC News |
- Q&A |
- Remembrances |
- NBCC Reads |
- Roundups |
- The Critical I: Conversations With Critics and Review Editors |
- The Next Decade in Book Culture |
- The Rest of the Best |
- Thinking About New Orleans: A Series About New Orleans Writers Post Katrina |
- Videos |
- Small Press Spotlight
Upcoming Events
National Book Critics Circle at the AWP in Chicago: March 02nd, 2012
National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists Reading: March 07th, 2012
National Book Critics Circle Annual Membership Meeting: March 08th, 2012
National Book Critics Circle Annual Membership Lunch: March 08th, 2012 BUY TICKETS
National Book Critics Circle Awards Ceremony and Reception: March 08th, 2012 BUY TICKETS
NBCC Awards
The postings on this blog represent the views and opinions of each individual poster and are not representative of views held by the National Book Critics Circle as an organization, or the NBCC board as a whole. Everything on this blog is copyright protected
Online Committee
- Jane Ciabattari, VP/Online
- Mark Athitakis, Deputy/Online
- Colette Bancroft
- Eric Banks
- David Biespiel
- Rigoberto González
- David Haglund
- John Reed
- Craig Morgan Teicher
- David L. Ulin
Links
- AARP The Magazine
- American Book Review
- The American Scholar
- Barnes and Noble Review
- The Believer
- Bloomberg News
- Bloomsbury Review
- Bookforum
- Bookslut
- Boston Globe
- Boston Review
- Chicago Tribune
- Christian Science Monitor
- Cleveland Plain Dealer
- The Collagist
- The Daily Beast
- Dallas Morning News
- El Pais
- Esquire
- Granta
- The Guardian
- Hartford Courant
- Harper’s
- Harvard Review
- Identity Theory
- The Independent
- Irish Times
- Internet Review of Books
- Kansas City Star
- Kirkus Reviews
- Le Monde
- Letras Libres
- Library Journal
- Literary Review
- The Literary Review
- London Review of Books
- Los Angeles Review of Books
- Los Angeles Times
- Miami Herald
- The Millions
- Minneapolis Star-Tribune
- The Morning News
- Mother Jones
- The Nation
- The New Republic
- Newsday
- New York Review of Books
- New York Times
- The New Yorker
- NPR.org
- Open Letters Monthly
- The Oregonian
- Page Views (New York Daily News)
- Parnassus
- Philadelphia Inquirer
- Pleiades
- Prairie Schooner
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Publishers Weekly
- The Quarterly Conversation
- Rain Taxi
- The Rumpus
- Sacramento News and Review
- Salon
- San Francisco Chronicle
- The Scotsman
- Seattle Times
- Slate
- St. Petersburg Times
- Sydney Morning Herald
- The Telegraph
- Threepenny Review
- Three Percent
- Time
- Time Out New York
- Times Literary Supplement
- Virginia Quarterly Review
- Wall Street Journal
- Washington Post
- Village Voice
- Zyzzyva