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30 Books in 30 Days: Leigh Newman on Margo Jefferson’s Negroland
In the days leading up to the March 17 announcement of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle award winners, Critical Mass highlights the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Leigh Newman on...
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What the Critics Picked: The NBCC Award Judges on the 30 Finalists
On January 18th, The National Book Critics Circle Awards announced its finalists for the publishing year 2015 in six categories, autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry....
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Confessions of a Reluctant Memoirist
About a year ago, I became a memoirist accidentally. Well, that’s not completely true. I did publish a book called Lord Fear: A Memoir, and I did sign off on that “a memoir” subtitle with hardly any...
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Why Hardcover is the New Vinyl
Heading home on the train from class one night, a college friend recognized me and walked over. We did what many New Yorkers do when they see a familiar face in transit: played the situation up like it...
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Margo Jefferson: The Books in My Life
Margo Jefferson’s highly acclaimed memoir, Negroland, is available in paperback today from Vintage. What was the first book you fell in love with? When you’re a child, your book tastes are...
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Announcing the Next Event in the Red Ink Series: Writing About Depression
“He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink….” –Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Red Ink is a...
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Margo Jefferson, Morgan Parker and More Discuss the Impact of Depression
Red Ink is a quarterly series focusing on women writers curated by Michele Filgate. The next event, which features Lidia Yuknavitch, Melissa Febos, Sarah Gerard, Marcy Dermansky, and Emily Raboteau, on...
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Meryl Streep and More Have Whale of a Time at the PEN Gala
The PEN America Annual Literary Gala is one of the fanciest of galas, taking place at the Museum of Natural History and getting even the most reclusive writers into formalwear. This year’s gala honored...
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Margo Jefferson on The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
…a world of pure affection, before torment, before loss, before awareness * “No narrator is more ruthless, more full of longing, than a child out to understand what his parents were like before he...
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30 Books in 30 Days: Leigh Newman on Margo Jefferson’s Negroland
In the days leading up to the March 17 announcement of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle award winners, Critical Mass highlights the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Leigh Newman on...
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What the Critics Picked: The NBCC Award Judges on the 30 Finalists
On January 18th, The National Book Critics Circle Awards announced its finalists for the publishing year 2015 in six categories, autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Confessions of a Reluctant Memoirist
About a year ago, I became a memoirist accidentally. Well, that’s not completely true. I did publish a book called Lord Fear: A Memoir, and I did sign off on that “a memoir” subtitle with hardly any...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Hardcover is the New Vinyl
Heading home on the train from class one night, a college friend recognized me and walked over. We did what many New Yorkers do when they see a familiar face in transit: played the situation up like it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Margo Jefferson: The Books in My Life
Margo Jefferson’s highly acclaimed memoir, Negroland, is available in paperback today from Vintage. What was the first book you fell in love with? When you’re a child, your book tastes are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Announcing the Next Event in the Red Ink Series: Writing About Depression
“He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink….” –Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Red Ink is a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Margo Jefferson, Morgan Parker and More Discuss the Impact of Depression
Red Ink is a quarterly series focusing on women writers curated by Michele Filgate. The next event, which features Lidia Yuknavitch, Melissa Febos, Sarah Gerard, Marcy Dermansky, and Emily Raboteau, on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Meryl Streep and More Have Whale of a Time at the PEN Gala
The PEN America Annual Literary Gala is one of the fanciest of galas, taking place at the Museum of Natural History and getting even the most reclusive writers into formalwear. This year’s gala honored...
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The Complexity of Keeping House is Worthy of Great Literature
In a YouTube speech with millions of views, charlatan-of-the-moment Jordan Peterson tells young men to clean up their acts, explaining in his cultivated steampunk accent, “If you want to organize your...
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The House of SpeakEasy Podcast: It’s Not You
This is House of SpeakEasy Foundation’s The SpeakEasy Podcast where writers come together to eat, drink, and share stories on a range of themes. Hosted by SpeakEasy’s co-founders, Amanda Foreman and...
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