National Book Critics Circle Award Events

A panel discussion and a reading before the awards ceremony.  Here are the details.  All open to the public.

NBCC Finalists in Conversation at The Graduate Center

March 08, 2011 7:00 pm 
Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, CUNY Fifth Avenue 

between 34th and 35th New York, NY 

NBCC biography and autobiography finalists in conversation with biography chair Eric Banks and autobiography co chair Rigoberto Gonzalez. With biography finalists Sarah Bakewell and Yunte Huang, autobiography finalists Patti Smith, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, and others. Hosted by Brenda Wineapple.

National Book Critics Circle Awards: Finalists Reading, 6:00 PM

March 09, 2011 6:00 pm 
The New School 66 West 12th St New York, NY 

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

Awe and gratitude.  And a few tears.  That is my response to the news that Hiroshima in the Morning was nominated as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

The selection committee chose a shortlist of books that give me great hope, not just for books and writers, but for who we are and what we care about as human beings.  Each book grapples with our most important subjects - death, war, friendship; each expands our universal experience by sharing it through a single, compassionate heart.  They are thoughtful, provocative and necessary.  Read them.