From the Critical Mass blog
Paul Fussell, 1924-2012
Paul Fussell died today, the New York Times reports. He was 88. The critic and historian received the first NBCC award in criticism for his 1975
NBCC Reads: Acts of Witness
Many of the respondents to our latest NBCC Reads question about literary journalism celebrated works of deep immersion into a topic, the product of
Roundup: Carlos Fuentes, Richard Ford, Emily Bernard, Esi Edugyan
Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, whose work pioneered the “Boom” in Latin American literature in the mid-20th Century, died last week at 83.
NBCC Reads: Life During Wartime
War reporting has been at the heart of plenty of contemporary literary journalism: A scan through the list of of NBCC finalists and winners in the