NBCC Announces Three BEA Panels on the Book Review

IN JUST UNDER THREE WEEKS, Book Expo America will come to New York. In keeping with the Campaign to Save Book Reviews, the NBCC will be hosting three book reviewing panels at the fair which touch on a variety of the issues raised by the changes in book coverage and book culture.

THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE BOOK REVIEW: A Bookforum Event
Thursday, May 31st, Paula Cooper Gallery, 521 West 21st Street, 4:30 PM- 5:30 PM

Where did the book review come from? What form has it taken? Who has read it and what purpose has it served in American arts and letters? Join Bookforum editor and NBCC member Eric Banks for a multi-faceted look at the genealogy of the popular book review. Panelists include James Shapiro, professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University; Joyce Carol Oates, National Book Award winning novelist and critic; Lindsay Waters, Executive Editor for the Humanities, Harvard University Press; Jonathan Galassi, president and publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

RSVP required (nbccrsvp@hotmail.com)

ETHICS IN BOOK REVIEWING: The More Things Change.....
Friday, June 1, Javits Center, Room 1E06, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

NBCC board member and Philadelphia Inquirer literary critic Carlin Romano will moderate what promises to be a lively discussion on the practice and ethics of book reviewing, drawing from results of a newly updated NBCC survey of hundreds of working book critics. Panelists will include Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review; Christopher Hitchens, author and critic; Francine Prose, author, critic and president of PEN America Center; David L. Ulin, editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review; and John Leonard, Ivan R. Sandrof Award-winning critic.

THE CRISIS IN NEWSPAPER REVIEWING: Where are we going, where have we been?
Sunday, June 3rd, Javits Center, 1E11, 10:00AM -- 11:00 AM

Newspaper book reviews are in a state of change. Where are we going? Where have we been? Join the NBCC for a panel which cuts to the heart of much recent debate. Panelists include Bob Mong, editor of the Dallas Morning News; Melissa Turner, incoming features editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution; Heidi Julavits, founding editor of The Believer; Stacey Lewis, publicist of City Lights Books; Maud Newton of maudnewton.com; Oscar Villalon, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review; and Arthur Salm, editor of the San Diego Union Tribune Book Review.

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