Awards

Is reading on the decline? Many think so. Writers, booksellers, librarians, and reviewers all have a stake in the evolving culture of reading. But no one has more to gain

Exciting night at St. Ann's Warehouse in DUMBO. The first PEN Quiz night, as a bookend kickoff to Brooklyn Book Festival. Wesley Stace (John Wesley Harding), the  emcee, was fast-paced,

WE hope you'll join us at 5:00 Sunday for the Name That Author panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival, which has been moved to the St. Francis Screening Room, 180

The Next Decade in Book Culture Start: September 21, 6 p.m. End: September 21, 7:15 p.m. Venue: Johnson Center Cinema, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia As part of Fall for

Join the National Book Critics Circle at Lit Crawl NYC on Saturday September 11, 2010, at 8 pm. Details here. Follow up with the NBCC “Name that Author” contest at

Lit Quake's NYC Lit Crawl Presents: National Book Critics Revise and Recant Start: September 11, 2010 8:15 pm End: September 11, 2010 9:00 pm Venue: White Slab Palace Address: 77

Great news! It's official. The National Book Critics Circle was among those awarded grants for access to artistic excellence in literature yesterday by the National Endowment for the Arts. This

The annual Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism, devoted to the support and encouragement of emerging critics, was awarded on Saturday, April 17, at the Conference on the Future of Criticism

Congratulations to Eleanor Ross Taylor, who has received the Poetry Foundation's $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievment. Her collection Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960-2008 (LSU Press)

Tune in on Sunday to BookTV to see the taped broadcast of the NBCC Awards ceremony. For the truly ambitious, the broadcast airs at 6 AM (EST) Sunday, March 28,