CRITICAL MASS
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5/10/2007
What is this site?
Commentary on literary criticism, publishing, writing, and all things NBCC related. It's written by independent members of the NBCC Board of Directors (see list of bloggers below).What is the NBCC?
The non-profit organization of book critics responsible for the yearly National Book Critics Circle Awards.To make a tax-deductible donation to the National Book Critics Circle, please click the donation button below.
The NBCC Blogging Committee
- Eric Banks
- Jane Ciabattari
- Rigoberto Gonzalez
- Mary Ann Gwinn
- James Marcus
- Maureen McLane
- Scott McLemee
- David Orr
- Jennifer Reese
- Rebecca Skloot
- Lizzie Skurnick
- Eric Miles Williamson
- Art Winslow
- Full blogger bios available here
Logistics
- The postings on this site represent the views and opinions of each individual poster and are not representative of views held by the National Book Critics Circle as an organization, or the NBCC board as a whole. Everything on this blog is copyright protected, including the image of the fox.
Comments
- All reader comments on this site are moderated: We welcome all civil commentary. Any comments that are inflammatory, mean spirited, spam or otherwise innapropriate will not be posted. We also discourage anonymous commenting.
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- The organization: Visit our website
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Links
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Recent Posts
- "Do we need 350,000 books a year...except for a bo...
- Vermont College MFA Program Students/Alumni Weigh ...
- Salman Rushdie on the Colbert Report
- Howard Zinn on Books Reviews, Truth and Democracy
- Around the World in the Campaign for the Book Revi...
- This Just in From the New York Times Syndicate: Di...
- And This, on Today's Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC
- Maureen McLane on the NBCC Book Furor
- Finding a Voice in Book Reviews
- Do Reviews Determine What You Read?
Past Posts Of Note
- Reviewing 101: John Updike's Rules, which he admits breaking.
- Speaking of Updike: The safety of criticism and his writing routine, and feeling glum about the future
- The NBCC's Tips For Successful Book Reviewing
- George Orwell on Book Reviews
- Why Book Reviews Matter
- The 2006 NBCC Finalists: 30 Books in 30 Days
- How We Choose Links for Roundup
- What's Graphic and What's a Novel and who's trying to ban them?
- Pub Date? What Pub Date? also Embargo Follies
- On Reviewers' Notes and Writing in Books
- The Rest of the Best: The Books That Didn't Make it Onto the NYTBR Best Book Survey
- Why I Didn't Vote In The Times' Best Book Survey
- To see Who Voted for What and Why in the NYTBR Best Book Survey, scroll through the June '06 Archive
- Why Do Critics Ignore Certain Books?
- Writers Read Your Contracts
- Earth to Academia
- Medical Apartheid: Research Ethics and Reviewing Ethics
- Criticism For Sale??
- No Buzz Marketing or Amazon Paybacks
- What to do with review copies? This or maybe this.
- The Best Way to Respond to a Bad Review
- Don't Know Much About Counterinsurgency
The Critical I: Conversations With Critics and Review Editors
- Lev Grossman, Book Critic, Time Magazine
- Mark Rotella, Review Editor, Publishers Weekly
- Steve Weinberg, Critic, Author, Investigative Reporter
- Karen Long, Book Editor, Cleveland Plain Dealer
- M.A. Orthofer, Complete Review Founder
- Sarah T. "Sally" Williams, Book Editor, Minneapolis Star Tribune
- Chauncey Mabe, Book Editor, South Florida Sun Sentinel
- Jerome Weeks, Dallas Morning News Staff Critic
- Tom Walker, Book Editor, Denver Post
- Marcela Valdes, Washington Post Book Notes Columnist
- Fritz Lanham, Book Editor, Houston Chronicle
- Oscar Villalon, Book Editor, San Francisco Chronicle
- Sybil Steinberg, Contributing Editor, Publishers Weekly
- Frank Wilson, Book Editor, Philadelphia Inquirer
- Jennifer Reese, Staff Critic, Entertainment Weekly
- Carole Goldberg, Book Editor, Hartford Courant
Critical Outtakes: Discussions With Writers
- Convergences With NBCC Winner Lawrence Weschler
- A Conversation With NBCC Winner Julie Phillips
- A Conversation With Barbara J. King
- Talking With Chimanda Adichie
- Moshin Hamid on Camus, Immigration, and Love
- An Interview With Melissa Fay Green
- Wole Soyinka on Becoming an Activist
- Dick Adler on the Best Books of 2006
- Richard Powers
- Simon Prosser on What People are Talking About in London
- Robley Wilson on What He's Reading
- Elizabeth Evans on What She's Reading
- T. Christian Miller On War Profiteering, part 1 and part 2
- Q & A with Kiran Desai
- Eliot Weinberger on Eating Intestines in China
- William T. Vollmann on Doing Drugs as Research
- Caroline Moorehead on Martha Gellhorn
- Kiran Desai on Home and Different Cultures and Developing Characters
- 12 Questions for Chimamanda Adichie
- 5 Questions for Amy Helpel
- Allegra Goodman on Keeping Work Under Her Hat
- Curtis Sittenfeld: What She's Working On
- Tom Bissell: What He's Working On and What He's Reading
- Jonathan Lethem: What He's Working On
- Ian McEwan on his Writing Process
- Don Delillo on Actors and Death
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti on Teaching Poetry
- Dave Eggers on Generosity
- Kazuo Ishiguro on Memory
- John Updike on Michiko Kakutani
- Mary Karr on Roth and Updike and "Blood Meridian"
- Curtis Sittenfeld on "White Noise
- Andrew Sean Greer on "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay"
- Madison Smartt Bell on Best Books
- John Irving on John Irving
- Thomas Mallon on "Underworld"
- Stewart O'Nan on "The Things They Carried
Thinking About New Orleans: A Series About New Orleans Writers Post Katrina
- Brad Benischek
- Jason Berry Part I
- Jason Berry Part II
- Susan Larson
- Jason Berry (Part I)
- Jason Berry (Part II)
- Brad Benischeck
- Thinking About New Orleans: An Update (6/04/07)
- James Lee Burke
- Ken Foster
- Louisiana in Words
- Joshua Clark
- Julie Smith
- Andrei Codrescu
- Blake Bailey
- Tom Piazza
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