Posts tagged "Dexter Filkins"

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2008 Nonfiction Finalist The Forever War, by Dexter Filkins

by Oscar Villalon

Each day leading up to the March 12 announcement of the 2008 NBCC awards, we highlight one of the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Oscar Villalon ...read »

National Book Critics Circle Announces Award Winners

by Barbara Hoffert

For immediate release On Thursday, March 12, 2009, at a crowded ceremony at the New School in New York, the National Book Critics Circle announced the ...read »

Roundup: 2008 NBCC Awards Ceremony Coverage

by Eric Banks

A few reactions to and coverage of the 2008 NBCC Awards Ceremony: At GalleyCat, an interview with poetry co-winner Juan Felipe Herrera (Half the World in ...read »

2008 NBCC Awards Ceremony: Dexter Filkins, The Forever War

by Eric Banks

New York Times correspondent Dexter Filkins’s The Forever War won the 2008 award in nonfiction on Thursday. Here, nonfiction committee chair Art Winslow ...read »

Roundup

by Jane Ciabattari

Dexter Filkins, whose “The Forever War” won the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction last week, has also won the Overseas Press Club‘s Cornelius ...read »

NBCC Reads: Spring 2009

by James Marcus

Visitors to Critical Mass will recall that in the fall, we canvassed the membership (as well as former winners and nominees) about which books best captured ...read »



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