Happy publication day to @angelaflournoy.bsky.social Her beautifully crafted new novel, The Wilderness, ranges from 2008 to 2027, revealing moments from ecstatic & heart breaking, & the value of friendship.

“I think precocious children in fiction can be pretentious. But what are you gonna do? Write about a dumb one?” @janeciab.bsky.social interviews @shteyngart.bsky.social.

“Love and toxicity are hardly unfamiliar bedfellows.” Hal Ebbott tells @janeciab.bsky.social about writing a novel of male friendship.

Lovely time at the Bay Area Book Fest. Thanks to @janeciab.bsky.social for hosting and so great to speak with @anitafelicelli.bsky.social, Hon Lai-Chu, and @jacqlyy.bsky.social about spec fic! Check out their weird and wonderful books, HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS and MENDING BODIES

Bay Area! I'm going to be IN you May 30-June 3 for the Bay Area Book Festival On the panel "Stories of Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction" with @anitafelicelli.bsky.social, Hon Lai Chu, @jacqlyy.bsky.social, moderated by @janeciab.bsky.social 12:30 Sunday, June 1 www.baybookfest.org/session/stor...

🌿Please join us this Sat 5/17 @ LitCamp's #reading at Sebastopol's #Litcrawl when 15 #writers-- including me--share short takes on a having a super bad attitude! 5pm, 186 N. Main Street. FREE. It'd be great to see you! 💜 #writer #writing #books

Looking forward to this @baybookfest.bsky.social speculative fiction conversation!

Dear friends, we've launch a change to the way we offer grants to underrepresented writers at @pageonem.bsky.social. I hope you'll read and share with your colleagues and writers. Thanks!

“The most interesting fiction, to me, contains this element of strangeness, whether it’s set in the real world or an alternative one.” @janeciab.bsky.social interviews @karenebender.bsky.social.

My @literaryhub.bsky.social conversation with award winning short story author @karenebender.bsky.social re: her new collection, The Words of Dr L and Other Stories, just our from Counterpoint Press.

Congrats @bookcritics.bsky.social poetry finalist @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social !

Congratulations to Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists www.pulitzer.org/winners/22691

Happy book launch month to #GuadalupeNettel & #CristinaRiveraNettel

Incredible list for @carolshieldsprize.bsky.social shortlist, congrats to all!

A joy to intro Maxine Hong Kingston, NBCC fiction award winner 1976, distinguished guest at 50th anniversary awards ceremony. Gratitude to my co-chair Jacob Appel, NBCC president @hspartington.bsky.social & awards co-vps @irisjamahldunkle & CristophIrmscher.

@janeciab.bsky.social co-chair of the @bookcritics.bsky.social 50th anniversary committee. Tells us about when the prize was founded in 1974 and reminds us that there used to be syndicated literary columnists! (not even that long ago)

Such an honor and a joy!

Karen Russell re The Antidote: "The word ‘apocalypse’ also means a revelation, an uncovering. I was interested in what this disaster reveals—what truths come to light, what injustices and possibilities are laid bare in the aftermath of a storm." lithub.com/karen-russel... via @lithub @AAKnopf

For the New English Review, NBCC member Kevin Anthony Brown published an essay-review of six Jean Giono titles, reissued by Archipelago Books and New York Review Books Classics, and translated by Paul Eprile, Jody Gladding and Bill Johnston:

NBCC member Clea Simon’s upcoming psychological suspense novel, "The Butterfly Trap," was reviewed by Booklist. Clea will be celebrating the book’s release at Harvard Book Store in discussion with Nina MacLaughlin on March 4 at 7 p.m.

NBCC Vice President/Barrios Book in Translation Prize Mandana Chaffa interviewed Aria Aber about her novel "Good Girl" for The Brooklyn Rail:

NBCC member Aiden Hunt reviewed "The Black Box: Writing the Race" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. for NewPages:

NBCC member Nicole Yurcaba reviewed Timothy Schaffert's "The Titanic Survivors Book Club" for Heavy Feather Review:

Former NBCC board member and recipient of the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing @mclemee.bsky.social concluded his “Intellectual Affairs” column at Inside Higher Ed, reflecting on 20 years of writing about scholarly books:

Former NBCC board member and recipient of the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Steven G. Kellman reviewed Lawrence Wright's "The Human Scale" for Arts Alive San Antonio:

NBCC member Robert Allen Papinchak reviewed "Canoes," written by Maylis de Kerangal and translated from the French by Jessica Moore, for World Literature Today:

NBCC Vice President/Online @michaelschaub.bsky.social talked to Corinna Vallianatos about "Origin Stories" for the Orange County Register:

NBCC Vice President/Barrios Book in Translation Prize @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social interviewed @antonhur.com about his novel "Toward Eternity" for @wwborders.bsky.social:

NBCC member Michael Quinn reviewed poet Ben Grossberg's debut novel, "The Spring Before Obergefell," for The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide:

Incoming NBCC board member Wadzanai Mhute reviewed Laila Lalami's "The Dream Hotel" for The Boston Globe:

NBCC member Michael O'Donnell wrote about the history of the private library for The Wall Street Journal:

NBCC member @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social reviewed "Living in Your Light" by Abdellah Taïa, translated from the French by Emma Ramadan, for Necessary Fiction:

NBCC member Dan Kois talked to Andrew Lipstein about bad reviews for 0s&1s:

NBCC member Linda Hitchcock reviewed Josef Lewkowicz and Michael Calvin’s "The Survivor" for BookTrib:

NBCC member Nell Beram reviewed "Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette" by Jennifer Jones for Shelf Awareness:

NBCC member @robrubsam.bsky.social wrote about Elon Musk, technology, AI slop, and Liz Pelly's "Mood Machine" for Liberties:

Former NBCC board member @anitafelicelli.bsky.social reviewed Laila Lalami's "The Dream Hotel" for the Los Angeles Times:

NBCC member Diane Josefowicz is now Senior Editor for Translation at The Adroit Journal. To join her team, apply here:

NBCC member Grant Faulkner interviewed Jean Kwok about writing thrillers with complex literary structures for the Write-minded podcast:

NBCC member Elaine Szewczyk profiled Lydia Millet for Publishers Weekly:

NBCC member JoeAnn Hart reviewed "Year of Plenty: A Family’s Season of Grief" by B.J. Hollars for Terrain.org:

NBCC member Nell Beram reviewed "The Profiler" by Helen Fields for Shelf Awareness:

NBCC President @hspartington.bsky.social wrote about Highway 99 towns and Manuel Muñoz's "The Consequences" for Alta's California Book Club:

NBCC member Dan Kois wrote about Dave Eggers’ "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" for its 25th anniversary for Slate:

The paperback edition of NBCC member Ryan Chapman’s "The Audacity" will be published on March 4 by Soho Press. Ryan was recently longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize:

NBCC member Paul Wilner interviewed New York Times movie critic Alissa Wilkinson about her latest, "We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine," for the Nob Hill Gazette:

NBCC member Aiden Hunt reviewed "The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective" by Steven Johnson for NewPages:

NBCC member Claude Peck wrote about "Hang On St. Christopher" by Adrian McKinty for The Minnesota Star Tribune:

NBCC member Ryan Chapman wrote about the six novels on the Booker Prize shortlist for The Sewanee Review:

Tickets are still available for the 2024 NBCC Finalists’ Reading, Awards, and Reception! 3/19 Finalists’ Reading: Free 3/20 Awards Ceremony: Free 3/20 Reception: $75 NBCC members/ $100 nonmembers www.wildboundlive.com/events/nbcc2...