NBCC Awards Finalists Announcement and LitPanels in San Francisco January 2008
Recognizing the literary influence of Northern California, and the presence of more than 100 of the NBCC's 700-plus members in that region, the NBCC will hold its January 12, 2008 board meeting in San Francisco, and announce the finalists for the NBCC awards that evening:
January 12, 2008, 6 pm: Kerouac Alley
Join the NBCC board, in collaboration with Litquake,book group expo, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights, Amy Tan, Dave Eggers, Daniel Alarcon, Maxine Chernoff, W.S. Di Piero, Paul Hoover, Wendy Lesser, and others (list in progress) to celebrate the finalists for the NBCC awards in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, criticism, biography, autobiography, lifetime achievement and book reviewing. Former NBCC finalists and awardees Frederick Crews, Dave Eggers, Troy Jollimore, Maxine Hong Kingston, and others will be there to announce the finalists in each category.
Please save the date, the evening of January 12, for this special NBCC event.
The NBCC also is hosting a series of panels, all free and open to the public, from January 10-12. Here are the confirmed panelists and locations to date:
NBCC LitPanel #1
January 10 Thursday night, 6 pm.
BOOK CULTURE: THE FUTURE IS GLOBAL
Location: Book Passage, Ferry Building, San Francisco.
NBCC President John Freeman moderates a panel of writers who also edit, teach, and travel, on how the cultural convergences of the Bay Area help shape today's literary culture.
PANELISTS
Daniel Alarcon, fiction writer (LOST CITY RADIO, WAR BY CANDLELIGHT), associate editor of the Lima-based magazine Etiqueta Negra, co-editor of Virginia Quarterly Review's Latin American issue.
Micheline Aharonian Marcom, novelist (THE DAYDREAMING BOY, THREE APPLES FELL FROM HEAVEN), creative writing professor (Mills College)
Amy Tan, novelist (SAVING FISH FROM DROWNING, THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER, THE JOY LUCK CLUB), rocker (The Rock Bottom Remainders),librettist (THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER).
Friday January 11, 2008
NBCC LitPanels #2 and #3 LOCATION: 111 Minna Gallery, Zappa Room
5:30 pm
NEW VOICES/UNRECOGNIZED VOICES
Who to watch for, what they are working on, and new forms that might appear (including new technology)
NBCC board member Jane Ciabattari, moderator:
PANELISTS:
Sandy Dijkstra, literary agent
Eli Horowitz, Publisher, MCSWEENEY'S BOOKS
Michael Ray, editor ZOETROPE:ALL STORY
Suzanne Kleid, CITY LIGHTS
NBCC LitPanel #3
6:30 pm
"THE VIEW FROM HERE: IS THE WEST COAST DRIVING AMERICAN LITERATURE?"
The jumping off point for this discussion is the comment Sam Tanenhaus made to NBCC board member Ellen Heltzel of BookBabes when he became editor of the New York Times Book Review.
Oscar Villalon, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Book Editor, NBCC board member, moderator
PANELISTS:
Andrew Sean Greer, novelist (THE CONFESSIONS OF MAX TIVOLI, THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE)
Mary Ann Gwinn, Book Editor, SEATTLE TIMES, NBCC board member
Ellen Heltzel, BOOKBABES, NBCC board member
Jennifer Reese, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY , NBCC board member
David Ulin, Editor, LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW
January 12, 2008, 6 pm: Kerouac Alley
Join the NBCC board, in collaboration with Litquake,book group expo, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights, Amy Tan, Dave Eggers, Daniel Alarcon, Maxine Chernoff, W.S. Di Piero, Paul Hoover, Wendy Lesser, and others (list in progress) to celebrate the finalists for the NBCC awards in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, criticism, biography, autobiography, lifetime achievement and book reviewing. Former NBCC finalists and awardees Frederick Crews, Dave Eggers, Troy Jollimore, Maxine Hong Kingston, and others will be there to announce the finalists in each category.
Please save the date, the evening of January 12, for this special NBCC event.
The NBCC also is hosting a series of panels, all free and open to the public, from January 10-12. Here are the confirmed panelists and locations to date:
NBCC LitPanel #1
January 10 Thursday night, 6 pm.
BOOK CULTURE: THE FUTURE IS GLOBAL
Location: Book Passage, Ferry Building, San Francisco.
NBCC President John Freeman moderates a panel of writers who also edit, teach, and travel, on how the cultural convergences of the Bay Area help shape today's literary culture.
PANELISTS
Daniel Alarcon, fiction writer (LOST CITY RADIO, WAR BY CANDLELIGHT), associate editor of the Lima-based magazine Etiqueta Negra, co-editor of Virginia Quarterly Review's Latin American issue.
Micheline Aharonian Marcom, novelist (THE DAYDREAMING BOY, THREE APPLES FELL FROM HEAVEN), creative writing professor (Mills College)
Amy Tan, novelist (SAVING FISH FROM DROWNING, THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER, THE JOY LUCK CLUB), rocker (The Rock Bottom Remainders),librettist (THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER).
Friday January 11, 2008
NBCC LitPanels #2 and #3 LOCATION: 111 Minna Gallery, Zappa Room
5:30 pm
NEW VOICES/UNRECOGNIZED VOICES
Who to watch for, what they are working on, and new forms that might appear (including new technology)
NBCC board member Jane Ciabattari, moderator:
PANELISTS:
Sandy Dijkstra, literary agent
Eli Horowitz, Publisher, MCSWEENEY'S BOOKS
Michael Ray, editor ZOETROPE:ALL STORY
Suzanne Kleid, CITY LIGHTS
NBCC LitPanel #3
6:30 pm
"THE VIEW FROM HERE: IS THE WEST COAST DRIVING AMERICAN LITERATURE?"
The jumping off point for this discussion is the comment Sam Tanenhaus made to NBCC board member Ellen Heltzel of BookBabes when he became editor of the New York Times Book Review.
Oscar Villalon, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Book Editor, NBCC board member, moderator
PANELISTS:
Andrew Sean Greer, novelist (THE CONFESSIONS OF MAX TIVOLI, THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE)
Mary Ann Gwinn, Book Editor, SEATTLE TIMES, NBCC board member
Ellen Heltzel, BOOKBABES, NBCC board member
Jennifer Reese, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY , NBCC board member
David Ulin, Editor, LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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