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Roundup: RIP Albert Murray and Elmore Leonard; William T. Vollmann, Unabomber Suspect; and More 26 Aug 2013 | 02:40 pm
Albert Murray, a recipient of the NBCC’s Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1996, died earlier this month at 97. The Oxford American published Walton Muyumba’s “The Blues Hero in the Spyglass T...
Roundup: John Banville, Paul Yoon, Boris Kachka’s Hothouse, and much more 19 Aug 2013 | 05:06 pm
"She was hardly the only science fiction writer of her day to craft beautiful sentences, but she was (as her peers recognized) one of the best..." Stephen Burt on Alice Sheldon (aka James Tiptree Jr.)...
Monday Roundup: 2 weeks in one, 8/5 and 8/12 12 Aug 2013 | 04:31 pm
In the New York Journal of Books, George De Stefano reviews Thomas Glave's Among the Bloodpeople. Julia M. Klein reviews Christine Montross's Falling into the Fire for the Boston Globe. In the New Y...
8/5 Roundup 5 Aug 2013 | 04:36 pm
Please note that there will be no roundup today. We will return with a double edition on Monday, 8/12. Keyword tags:
Roundup: David Rakoff, Mark Kurklansky, a new Hunger Games trailer, and more 29 Jul 2013 | 05:18 pm
Marion Winik reviews David Rakoff's Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish in Newsday. In the New York Journal of Books, David Cooper reviews Burt Kimmelman's Gradually the World: New and Select...
Monday roundup avalanche, 2 weeks in one: 7/15 and 7/22 22 Jul 2013 | 05:25 pm
2013 PEN Literary Awards littered with NBCC connections. "When a loved one dies, people rarely get time to grieve fully, or find words to express its strange reality." Matthew Jakubowski reviews Clai...
NBCC/ZYZZYVA Summer Party in San Francisco 19 Jul 2013 | 02:35 am
(From left) Jane Ciabattari, Oscar Villalon, Tess Taylor, Shane Book The NBCC's third annual summer cocktail party at Zyzzyva's offices in San Francisco hit a hot spell, no fog, lots of late-day s...
Save the Date: NBCC Presents Amy Tan and Ben Fountain at AWP 2014 12 Jul 2013 | 11:38 pm
SAVE THE DATE: When: February 28, 2014 3 pm Where: AWP Conference 2014, Seattle Convention Center and Sheraton Hotel National Book Critics Circle presents: Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Lon...
Roundup: Greatest Literary Takedowns, Jane Smiley on the recently retired Alice Munro, and much more 8 Jul 2013 | 05:15 pm
Entertainment Weekly calls 2012 NBCC Fiction Award winner Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk one of the 100 greatest books ever. San Francisco Chronicle books editor John McMurtrie interv...
Meaty Monday Roundup: Roxana Robinson calls James Salter’s latest work sexist; and much more 1 Jul 2013 | 05:30 pm
School Library Journal associate book reviews editor Chelsey Philpot reviews three young adult novels the Boston Globe. She also compiles a recommended list of YA summer reading. NBCC board member El...
