September 30, 2010
By Meredith Maran
NBCC member Meredith Maran answers Question #4 in our series: Has the tipping point come for reviewers?Are you using e-galleys? No one has sent me an e-galley, and if they
September 28, 2010
By Laurie Gold
NBCC member Laurie Gold answers Question 4 in our series: Earlier this year I wrote a short piece about my adventures in e-reading. In it I discussed my long-time use
September 27, 2010
By Reamy Jansen
Given some of my current reading on work, craftsmanship and the fashioning of identity, my attention was caught a few weeks ago by the peculiar treatment of books whose length
September 23, 2010
By Jane Ciabattari
Last night's NBCC Reads “Conjugal Lit” discussion at the Center for Fiction on E. 47th Street started a bit late (UN traffic outside) and ended with an unexpected cloudburst, keeping
September 21, 2010
By Eric Banks
Conjugal Lit with Lore Segal, Gary Giddins, Brenda Wineapple, Stephen Koch, Moderated by James Marcus Center for Fiction 17 East 47th Street, New York Wednesday, September 22 at 7:00pmRSVP What
September 21, 2010
By Alex Sharp
Alex Sharp answers Question #4: I am so attached to my Kindle that when I was reviewing The Surf Guru (Doug Dorst) this summer, I was frustrated by not being
September 5, 2010
By Jane Ciabattari
A passionate group of readers showed up at Book Passage in Corte Madera, California in early August to talk about the most memorable books about conjugal love, the latest in
August 25, 2010
By Vince Passaro
In Critical Mass's ongoing “In Retrospect,” in which contemporary critics revisit former winners and finalists for the National Book Critics Awards, Vince Passaro, a critic and author of “Violence Nudity
August 18, 2010
By Wyatt Mason
The following essay on Philip Roth's 1979 NBCC finalist The Ghost Writer, from Nona Balakian Citation winning critic Wyatt Mason, is part of the Critical Mass In Retrospect series, in
August 10, 2010
By Matthew Tiffany
Another response to the third question in our Next Decade in Book Culture series, from Matthew Tiffany, whose literary blog is Condalmo. I. The wording of the question points