January 5, 2010
By Diane Scharper
Each week Critical Mass highlights an exemplary review by an NBCC member. Here, in a review first published in the Wall Street Journal, Diane Scharper, editor of Reading Lips and
December 21, 2009
By David L. Ulin
Beginning this week, we'll begin highlighting the responses to the NBCC query recently sent out to members: How do you see book culture evolving over the next decade? In the
December 17, 2009
By Eric Banks
In his “Intellectual Affairs” column, NBCC board member Scott McLemee wrote yesterday about his conversation with Marcela Valdes, herself a former board member who wrote the introductory essay in The
December 11, 2009
By Eric Banks
Reacting to the shuttering of Kirkus, which published in the neighborhood of 5,000 advance reviews annually, Mark Athitakis celebrates the “element of surprise” he profited from in writing for Kirkus:
December 10, 2009
By Scott McLemee
NBCC member Bethanne Patrick has, in her time, been an editor for PAGES magazine, a contributing editor at Publishers Weekly, and the book blogger for the AOL Books channel, back
December 5, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
The2009 PEN Beyond Margins Awards celebration on December 2, featuring award winners Uwem Akpan, Juan Felipe Herrera and Lily Hoang, and hosted by Jane Ciabattari podcast here.
December 1, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Steve Weinberg, former NBCC board member, has just finished updated the NBCC freelancing guide; it will go to NBCC members later this month. Steve notes that when he first compiled the
November 24, 2009
By John Reed
November 13, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Q. NBCC award winner Jonathan Lethem, whose new novel, Chronic City, is set in Manhattan, has set a small used bookstore in Maine, called Red Gap, with coffee and couches
November 11, 2009
By David Ulin
Board member and Los Angeles Times Book Review editor David L. Ulin had this to say at the celebratory 35th NBCC anniversary event in Septmeber.