Critical Notes

Twitter founder Biz Stone twitted by Stephen Colbert. New York Times Skimmer prototype, via Sree Sreenivisan tweet. Meanwhile, check out this Short Storyspreadsheet. Carolyn Kellogg on the 100th anniversary of

The Association of American Publishers is in search of a new slogan to inspire reading and giving books as gifts, They’re offering a $500 gift certificate as the prize for

Dexter Filkins, whose “The Forever War” won the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction last week, has also won the Overseas Press Club‘s Cornelius Ryan award for best nonfiction

This year’s Balakian winner, Ron Charles, handicaps the National Book Critics Circle fiction awards, to be announced next Thursday evening, March 23, at the New School. Meanwhile, finalist M. Glenn

A couple of items on the state of the book review (and the future of newspapers): On NPR, CBS editorial director Dick Meyer talks about the vanishing standalone section, and

A busy schedule over the next few weeks. Just a few of the offerings: Tuesday, February 24, 8 pm. “Global Correspondences,” a reading by Andre Acimen, Edward Albee, Anthony Appiah,

Doris Lessing, an NBCC finalist for memoir (and a Nobel laureate), recalls her mother putting her in charge of sitting hen on their “our farm in the old Southern Rhodesia,”