Comments on: McCarthy, Ford, Eggers Don’t Win the National Book Critics Circle Award

By: Likely Stories » Blog Archive » Orange you glad I didn’t make a pun?

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:20:32 +0000

[…] I haven’t consulted Ladbrokes, but I wouldn’t bet against Kiran Desai. […]

By: Likely Stories » Blog Archive » The Long-Awaited Orange Prize Longlist

Likely Stories » Blog Archive » The Long-Awaited Orange Prize Longlist — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:36:59 +0000

[…] Noteworthy nominees include Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss, which won the NBCC;Â Stef Penney’s The Tenderness of Wolves, which won the Costa, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, which was a finalist for the NBCC; Jane Smiley’s Ten Days in the Hills, which was written by Jane Smiley; and Anne Tyler’s Digging to America. […]

By: Likely Stories » Blog Archive » More on the NBCC Awards

Likely Stories » Blog Archive » More on the NBCC Awards — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:15:47 +0000

[…] I just posted Donna Seaman’s first-person report on the NBCC Awards on Booklist Online (”Both a Literary Marathon and a Talent Show: A Report from the National Book Critics Circle Awards“). You can tell she’s a book critic because, after dropping this tantalizing tidbit,Â she neglects to tell us what Dave Eggers was actuallyÂ wearing: In another arresting appearance, a noticeably nervous Dave Eggers took the stage with a poised and delighted Valentino Achak Deng, the subject (and, some might argue, coauthor) of Eggersâ€™ novel What is the What. Eggers seemed particularly chagrined by the fact that he and Deng had inadvertently dressed exactly alike. […]

By: Donna Seaman

Donna Seaman — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:44:48 +0000

Thanks, Keir, for noting my starred reviews of 2 NBCC winners. Let’s also send out a good reviewing kudo to Booklist freelancer Carl Hays for starring the James Tiptree, Jr. biography.

By: maggie

maggie — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:48:20 +0000

Noooooooo! Oh, the humanity!