Here's a toast to the NBCC Sandrof award winner John McPhee, Balakian winner Charles Finch, and John Leonard award winner Carmen Maria Machado, and all the NBCC awards finalists, selected at an eight-hour board meeting on Saturday (with one autobiography finalist, Roxane Gay's Hunger, already chosen by NBCC Members' in annual voting).
Our celebration kicked off Monday morning when Isaac Fitzgerald and Saeed Jones of Buzzfeed Books AM2DM announced the fiction finalists. (Saeed was a poetry finalist one year for his Prelude to Bruise.) Soon #NBCCAwards was trending on Twitter. Buzzfeed also posted on their website, plus a Buzzfeed Social thread.
AP's Hillel Italie in the Seattle Times. AP in the New York Times.
The Paris Review on Facebook: Congratulations to all the National Book Critics Circle Award finalists, including Kapka Kassabova, whose ‘Border’ is up for the nonfiction prize. Read an interview with her here.
My face feels funny and I am so shocked and excited to have won an @bookcritics award. Gah. Thank any of you who ever read my criticism.
"Critical Notes: #NBCCAwards Season Begins" was posted January 23, 2018.