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The “Save Gary Coleman” Petition!
Even though I have yet to hear back from Marcus Brauchli concerning the future of the Washington Post‘s book coverage, and not a single journalist or NBCC board member has confirmed a specific...
View ArticleDoes The End of Washington Post Book World Mean the End of Books Coverage?
Even though there has yet to be an official announcement, the NBCC is once again unofficially “reporting” “unofficial” and unsourced news that Washington Post Book World will print its last issue on...
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NBCC Announces Exciting New Panels!
The National Book Critics Circle has announced a number of exciting new panels that should keep literature alive and exciting in this age of declining newspapers. Why You Should Be Jane Ciabattari’s...
View ArticleBEA 2009: Book Reviews 2010 Panel Report
Panel: Book Reviews 2010: What Will They Look Like? Participants: John Reed, The Brooklyn Rail (Moderator); Ben Greenman, The New Yorker; Otis Chandler, Goodreads; Bethanne Patrick, The Book Studio;...
View ArticleCritical Ass
From the latest National Book Critics Circle newsletter: Eric Banks then spoke about the blogging committee. Our blog visitor numbers, he said, are down sharply. We’re getting only 10,000 visits per...
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BEA 2013: All’s Fair? Book Reviews & The Missing Code of Ethics
I was fully prepared to ignore the National Book Critic Circle’s latest effort to organize a confab parroting prefab guidelines for how to review books, influence the few, and otherwise eat your own...
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Carlin Romano Is Racist. And So Is The National Book Critics Circle.
On June 11, 2020, Hope Wabuke — a distinguished Ugandan American poet who was on the National Book Critics Circle board — published screenshots from a disturbing internal conversation that involved how...
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