May 4, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
By Saturday night, the week-long PEN World Voices Festival felt like a village where 160 writers from 41 countries, speaking 18 languages, gathered, bringing New York’s cultural vortex close to
April 30, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
“Evolution/Revolution,” PEN World Voices Festival’s opening night last night, offered wordspinning by storytellers in many languages with translation in text scrolling onstage. And new PEN president Kwame Anthony Appiah welcoming
March 2, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
National Book Critics Circle’s annual March events, held in New York City next week. Awards finalists here: 30 Books in 30 Days, NBCC Board Members review the finalists here. WEDNESDAY,
January 22, 2009
By Barbara Hoffert
January 20, 2009For immediate release On Saturday, January 24, 2009, the National Book Critics Circle will announce the finalists for its forthcoming book awards, covering books published in 2008. Books
December 31, 2008
By Jane Ciabattari
January 23, 2009, 7 pm Housing Works Bookstore Café, 126 Crosby between Houston and Prince, New York City. Poetry in translation panel: Has the US Lost Touch with World Literature?
October 10, 2008
By NBCC
Dwight Garner, original Paper Cuts blogger for the New York Times Book Review, tells us he’s leaving the NYTBR very soon to become a book critic for the daily edition
October 1, 2008
By NBCC
Speaking of Brooklyn, NBCC member Charlotte Abbott is curating the new “Cosmopolis: Immigrant Writers in New York,” a free series at the Brooklyn Public Library, beginning Saturday, October 4, at
September 22, 2008
By NBCC
I’m heading to San Antonio this week to help honor NBCC Balakian award winning critic Steve Kellman, who will be top dog at this year’s Thursday night, September 25, blowout
September 12, 2008
By NBCC
National Book Critics Circle at the New SchoolFriday, September 12, 6-9 pmTheresa Lang Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2ndfloor, New York, NY National Book Critics Circle Panels 6
September 2, 2008
By NBCC
Friday, September 12, 6-9 pm Theresa Lang Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 6 pm reception (wine and cheese) 6:30 The Flourishing Long-Form Book