RotR-endorsed Ian Rankin is hosting a BBC4 series in which crime fiction writers talk about the music that influences and inspires them. (via Sarah)
Month / March 2006
National Book Critics Circle Winners
They haven’t been posted at papers are reporting the following winners:
FICTION: The March by E.L. Doctorow
MEMOIR: Them: A Memoir of Parents by Francine de Plessix Gray
NONFICTION: Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich (Keith Gessen: translator)
BIOGRAPHY: American Promtheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
CRITICISM: The Undiscovered Country by William Logan
POETRY: Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert
This Geek Keeps Many Opinions to Himself. More Than You Could Possibly Know.
Several readers have alerted me to Dave Itzkoff’s science fiction column. For regular Tanenhaus watchers, Mr. Itzkoff’s uninformed stance on science fiction isn’t much of a surprise. I’ll have more to say after the weekend, but thankfully, Matt Cheney, Nick Matmas and Lucius Sorrentino are on the case.
