March 31, 2018
By Elizabeth Taylor
Nonfiction committee chair Mary Ann Gwinn presented the award to Frances FitzGerald for The Evangelicals. How Donald Trump, a three-times-married libertine, won the presidency with the support of evangelical
March 30, 2018
By Elizabeth Taylor
NBCC biography committee chair Elizabeth Taylor, presented this citation to Caroline Fraser, author of Prairie Fires. In her extraordinary Prairie Fires,Caroline Fraser has brilliantly recast our understanding of Laura Ingalls
March 29, 2018
By Yahdon Israel
Poetry committee chair Tess Taylor presented the citation to winner Layli Long Soldier for Whereas. In her audacious, unapologetic debut Whereas, Lakota poet and artist Layli Long Soldier writes about “dual citizenship”—as a
March 28, 2018
By Marion Winik
Laurie Hertzel, chair of the autobiography committee, presented the award for Nine Continents, by Xiaolu Guo, to her Grove editor, Amy Hundley Xiaolu Guo was born in Communist China to
March 27, 2018
By Tom Beer
Tom Beer, chair of the fiction committee, presented this citation to award winner Joan Silber, for her novel Improvement. Some writers wow us with verbal pyrotechnics and wildly outrageous scenarios.
March 24, 2018
By David Varno
March 15, 2018, The New School, New York, NY Welcome: Luis Jaramillo, Interim Director, The New School Writing Program Opening Remarks: Kate Tuttle, President, National Book Critics Circle John Leonard
March 23, 2018
By John McPhee
John McPhee is a journalist, essayist, author, and longtime journalism professor at Princeton University. He is the author of more than 30 books, beginning with “A Sense of Where You
March 22, 2018
By Charles Finch
The recipient of the 2017 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, given to an NBCC member for exceptional critical work, was Charles Finch. The Balakian Citation carries with it
March 19, 2018
By David Varno
On Wednesday, March 14, 2018, the night before the awards ceremony, many of the finalists read from their work at the New School Here is the complete video. See below for order of
March 15, 2018
By Kate Tuttle
Contact: Beth Parker, Beth Parker PR, Beth@bethparkerpr.com, 914-629-9205 Kate Tuttle, NBCC President, kate.tuttle@gmail.com Tonight, at the New School