Tickets for this event are $40 until March 1 and $45 thereafter (bring Paypal receipt for entrance) and at the door.

NBCC Awards Ceremony: Announcement of the 2009 NBCC Award winners will take place at 6:00 p.m. in The New School University’s Tishman Auditorium, 66 W. 12th St., New York City. The event is free and open to the public.

$25, payable via paypal (bring receipt for entrance) or by check at the door. Reservations required. Open to current members only.

Annual NBCC Membership Meeting, March 11, 2010, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm, with a presentation on Advanced Social Media for Book Critics and Others in the Book Biz by Prof. Sree Sreenivasan, Dean of Student Affairs, Columbia Journalism School & contributing editor, DNAinfo.com and a panel on The Next Decade in Book Culture featuring current and incoming board members with perspectives from around the US: Mark Athitakis (Washington, D.C.), Colette Bancroft (St. Petersburg), Karen Long (Cleveland) Scott McLemee (Washington D.C.) and Elizabeth Taylor (Chicago).

Reading by finalists for the NBCC awards in autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The event is free and open to the public.

Announcing the finalists for the NBCC awards in autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and the winners of the Sandrof award for lifetime achievement and the Balakian award for criticism.

Special guest announcers: Anthony Appiah, President, PEN American Center, 2008 Sandrof award winner, to announce the Sandrof award; Balakian winner Albert Mobilio to announce the Balakian award; 2008 finalist Elizabeth Strout, fiction; 2008 winner Ariel Sabar, autobiography; 1999 finalist Jean Strouse, biography, 1997 and 2008 finalist Vivian Gornick, criticism; 2008 finalist Brenda Shaughnessy, poetry, and 2000 nonfiction winner Ted Conover.

Literati-a-Go-Go
hosts the National Book Critics Circle
Pointless Holiday Mingle

Whiskeytown Bar
Starts at 6:30 pm, December 9
2-for-1 drinks

29 East 3 Street (between 2nd Ave and Bowery)
212 505 7344

Join the NBCC and PEN American Center in honoring the 2009 PEN/Beyond Margins Awards. This year’s winners are Uwem Akpan for Say You’re One of Them, a new Oprah pick; NBCC poetry award winner Juan Felipe Herrera for Half the World in Light,; and Lily Hoang for her poetry collection Changing. They will be reading from their work, and joining W.W. Norton editor Brendan Curry in a conversation about “Crossing Over,” moderated by NBCC President Jane Ciabattari.

As one newspaper towns go to no newspaper towns, as bloggers get sponsors, as networking sites burgeon in content, what is the future of the book review?  We are poised now at the juncture—the transition is underway.  But a transition to what?  For some, the readership created by the internet is something to applaud.  We bring together a panel of writers, editors, and professionals, established on the vanguard, to discuss prospects for the review and how it may change, in the near future.
A National Book Critics Circle panel for the 2009 BEA
 
Ben Greenman (New Yorker, writer/reviewer)
Bethanne Patrick (PW blogger, Twitter and more)
David Nudo (Formerly New York Times, PW and Shelfari)
Otis Chandler (Goodreads CEO and founder)
Peter Krause (seems like a brand new thought, syndicates reviews to internet sites through his company, TacticCompany, formerly of Muze)
Moderated by John Reed, Books Editor, the Brooklyn Rail, NBCC board member

The world is more connected than ever, and hybrid culture has replaced the neverexistent mainstream. What do these revolutions hold for the short story? Who is its audience? And how do elements travel across cultures in the story differently than in the novel? Granta’s American editor John Freeman will lead the discussion.  Part of PEN World Voices Festival.

With Nadeem Aslam, Nam Le, Fuad Rifka, and Antje Rávic Strubel; moderated by John Freeman.

Free and open to the public.
Cosponsored by Granta and the Martin E. Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Celebrate the publication of the landmark new Graywolf anthology New European Poets with a panel discussion about and readings from the work of some of the most exciting and important new poetic voices from Europe.

With Christopher Bakken, Peter Covino, Marilyn Hacker, Wendy Lesser, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Adam Sorkin, and Alissa Valles; hosted by Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer.  Part of PEN World Voices Festival.

Free and open to the public.
Cosponsored by Graywolf Press and NYU Creative Writing Program.

To celebrate the National Book Critics Circle’s 35th birthday, a panel of critics—board members of the NBCC and a finalist for this year’s NBCC Balakian award for criticism—provide context and commentary on this year’s World Voices authors, including Bernardo Atxaga, Álvaro Enrique, Nawal El Saadawi, Peter Weber, and Uljana Wolf.
With Eric Banks, Rigoberto González, Laila Lalami, and Kevin Prufer; moderated by Jane Ciabattari.

NBCC Awards Ceremony: Announcement of the 2009 NBCC Award winners will take place at 6:00 p.m. in The New School University’s Tishman Auditorium, 66 W. 12th St., New York City. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the awards ceremony. Tickets for the reception are $40 if purchased by February 28, $45 thereafter by cash or check at the door, or online.

Reading by finalists for the NBCC awards in autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The event is free and open to the public.

National Book Critics Circle’s Fiction Winners/Finalists reading at the Chicago AWP conference, with 2004 NBCC Awards Fiction Winner Marilynne Robinson (Gilead), author of Home; 2002 NBCC Awards Fiction Finalist Aleksandar Hemon (Nowhere Man), author of The Lazarus Project, and 1988 NBCC Awards Fiction Winner Bharati Mukherjee (The Middleman and Other Stories), author of The Tree Bride. Welcome by Elizabeth Taylor, literary editor, the Chicago Tribune; Moderator:Jane Ciabattari, NBCC president.

Marilynne Robinson’s Home and Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project are finalists for the 2008 NBCC fiction award.