NBCC member Tiffany Troy interviewed R.A. Villanueva about "A Holy Dread" for the University of Arizona Poetry Center blog:

NBCC member Ben Yagoda’s novel "Alias O. Henry" has won the Philadelphia Athenaeum Literary Award for best book of the year written by a Philadelphian or about a Philadelphia subject:

NBCC member Kristin Dykstra's "Dissonance," published by the University of Chicago Press, is a finalist for the Vermont Book Award in the poetry category:

NBCC member Susan Shapiro will moderate a panel, How Three Pages Can Change Your Life: The Fastest Way to Land a Big Book Deal, on May 14, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Eastern, at Penguin Random House. Tickets are available here:

NBCC member Christopher Kempf was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry:

NBCC member Robert Allen Papinchak reviewed David Armstrong’s "Broadway Nation: How Immigrants, Jewish, Queer, and Black Artists Invented the Broadway Musical" and Mick Rock’s "Rocky Horror: A Behind-the-Scenes Look At The Cult Classic," both for The Gay & Lesbian Review:

NBCC lifetime member Heather Green interviewed poet Kristin Dykstra for Asymptote’s visual section:

NBCC member Hope Reese appeared on CNN to discuss the election in Hungary, as well as her book, "The Women Are Not Fine: The Dark History of a Poisonous Sisterhood":

NBCC member Tom Peebles reviewed Phillippe Sands’ "38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia" on his blog:

NBCC member Julia M. Klein reviewed Julia Langbein's "Dear Monica Lewinsky" for the Los Angeles Times:

NBCC member Cory Oldweiler reviewed Tom Perrotta’s "Ghost Town" for The Boston Globe:

NBCC member Sarah Dowling reviewed Damion Searls' "Analog Days" and Gail Scott's "Furniture Music" for the Cleveland Review of Books:

NBCC member Melissa Holbrook Pierson reviewed Jan Staller’s "Manhattan Project" for Hyperallergic:

NBCC member Eric Olson interviewed Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur about her new memoir for The Seattle Times:

NBCC member @elaineszewczyk.bsky.social profiled Teddy Wayne for Publishers Weekly:

NBCC member Abby Frucht's collection of stories, "The Bell at the End of a Rope," first issued by Narrative Library, has been revised, enhanced, and reissued as an ebook at Dzanc:

NBCC member Steven G. Kellman reviewed David Streitfeld's "Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry" for The American Scholar:

NBCC member Joanne B. Mulcahy reviewed Terese Svoboda's "Hitler and My Mother-in-Law" for On the Seawall:

NBCC member Jake Cline interviewed John Waters for Arsht Magazine, where they discussed Elena Ferrante impersonators, why he thinks “writing a book is not fun,” his 80th birthday (on April 22) and when we may see a followup to his 2022 novel "Liarmouth":

NBCC member Kevin Anthony Brown’s essay-review of Stendhal’s "Armance, The Red and the Black, and The Charterhouse of Parma" appeared in the April 2026 edition of New English Review:

NBCC member Nancy Naomi Carlson reviewed U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze's "Transient Worlds" for On the Seawall:

NBCC member Daniel Mendelsohn reviewed Yann Martel’s "Son of Nobody" for The New York Times Book Review:

NBCC Online Chair Michael Schaub interviewed Lauren Rothery for The Orange County Register: buff.ly/QAhhEO7

NBCC member Valerie Duff-Strautmann reviewed Maggie Dietz’s "If You Would Let Me" for On the Seawall:

NBCC member Sullivan Summer interviewed historian of slavery and freedom in North America Dr. Antwain K. Hunter about his book, "A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715-1865," for the New Books Network:

NBCC member Linda Hitchcock reviewed Frances Crawford’s "A Bad, Bad Place" for BookTrib:

NBCC member Eric Olson interviewed Maria Semple for The Seattle Times. The two talked about her former "naivety," life in the New York City publishing world, and Grateful Dead fandom:

An essay by NBCC Poetry Chair David Woo, “Poets of My Age and the Erotics of Influence,” appeared in Poetry:

NBCC member Brian Tanguay reviewed "Honeysuckle" by Bar Fridman-Tell for the California Review of Books:

NBCC Online Chair Michael Schaub contributed to the Los Angeles Times’ feature about the 101 best book club picks:

NBCC member David Starkey reviewed "The Complete Notebooks" by Albert Camus for the California Review of Books:

For the Duluth News Tribune, NBCC member Jay Gabler interviewed Gaelynn Lea about her memoir, "It Wasn't Meant to Be Perfect":

NBCC member Tara Menon reviewed Ben Lerner's "Transcription" for The Nation:

NBCC member Deborah Copperud reviewed former NBCC President Laurie Hertzel's memoir "Ghosts of Fourth Street: My Family, a Death, and the Hills of Duluth" for Minnesota Monthly:

NBCC member Nicole Schrag reviewed "The Girl Who Baptized Herself" by Meggan Watterson for Christian Century:

NBCC member Lee Rossi reviewed "Cold Thief Place" by Esther Lin for Another Chicago Magazine:

NBCC member Diane Josefowicz reviewed "Happy Land" by Dolen Perkins-Valdez for The Providence Eye:

NBCC member Cory Oldweiler wrote about "Lithium," written by Malén Denis and translated from the Spanish by Laura Hatry and John Wronski, for Southwest Review:

NBCC member Stephanie Gorton interviewed William and Brendan Kennedy about their Charlie Malarkey children's books for Literary Hub:

NBCC Emerging Critic Fellow Michelle Chan Schmidt translated an excerpt from Hongkongese writer Cheung Yuen-man's short story “Ashes to Ashes” for Words Without Borders' collection of post-2019 Fiction from Hong Kong:

For The Village Star-Revue, NBCC member Michael Quinn reviewed "The Endless Garment: Atlantic Basin," a group exhibition on global fashion and labor at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works, with an accompanying poetry book:

Former NBCC board member and recipient of the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Steven G. Kellman reviewed Andrew Miller's "The Land in Winter" for the print edition of Rain Taxi: buff.ly/EJK7oQI

NBCC member Tony Miksanek's review of "In Defense of Sunlight: The Surprising Science of Sun Exposure" by Rowan Jacobsen was featured as Booklist's "Review of the Day" for April 3:

NBCC board member Lauren LeBlanc reviewed Djuna Barnes' "Ladies Almanack" for The Believer:

NBCC member Eric Olson profiled George Saunders for The Seattle Times:

"Guardians & Saints: Stories" by NBCC member Diane Josefowicz was reviewed at Small Press Picks:

Three poems by NBCC board member David Woo appear in the April issue of Poetry magazine: “The End of the Visit,” “Gay Marriage,” and “Innocence.”

NBCC board member Tobias Carroll reviewed Kim Fu's "The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts" for Reactor:

NBCC member Melissa Holbrook Pierson reviewed "True Color" by Kory Stamper for The Brooklyn Rail:

NBCC board member Lauren LeBlanc interviewed Nancy Lemann for The Drift: