Awards

NBCC Board member and biography committee chair Benjamin Moser announced the 2011 winner for biography: John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life (Penguin Press)   Finalists are: Mary

NBCC Board member and poetry committee chair Carlin Romano announced the 2011 winner for criticism: Geoff Dyer, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews (Graywolf)   Finalists

NBCC Board member and fiction committee chair Laurie Muchnick announced the 2011 winner for fiction: Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision (Lookout Books)   Finalists include: Teju Cole, Open City (Random House)

NBCC Nonfiction chair Karen Long presented the 2011 winner for nonfiction: Maya Jasanoff, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War (Knopf)   Finalists are: Amanda Foreman, A World on

NBCC Board member and poetry committee chair Craig Morgan Teicher announced the 2011 winner for poetry: Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains (Copper Canyon Press)   Finalists are: Forrest Gander, Core

For release 7:00 p.m., Thursday, March 8, 2012 On Thursday, March 8, at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium, the National Book Critic Circle presented its awards for publishing year 2011.

NBCC Finalists’ Reading Publishing Year 2011 Readings by finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards will be held on Wednesday, March 7, 2012, at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium,

Today, Slate officially announced the arrival of the Slate Book Review, a new monthly feature that will considerably expand upon the website's book coverage. It will be published on the

NBCC member events: Roxana Robinson organized a reading of The House of Mirth, to celebrate Edith Wharton’s 150th birthday, at the Center for Fiction on January 26th. Twenty-four women writers,