Two panels this weekend celebrate the Spring “Good Reads” recommendations by the NBCC. At 7 PM on Friday at McNally Robinson in SoHo, join NBCC board member Eric Banks and panelists Leo Carey (books editor at the New Yorker), Salon co-founder Laura Miller, Ben Ratliff (author of 2007 NBCC finalist Coltrane: The Story of a Sound), Melanie Rehak (author of Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her), and Owen Sheers (author of the “NBCC Good Reads” novel Resistance) as they share their enthusiasms for recent titles as well as rediscovered classics.
Saturday at 6 pm at Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor NBCC President Jane Ciabattari convenes a panel with NBCC member, author/lecturer and John Jay/CUNY professor Mark Ciabattari, poet, photographer, and former KGB series curator Star Black, and poet/novelist/WW Norton editor Jill Bialosky.