#BookCritics
@bookcritics William Durant was born today, November 5, in 1885.
November 5, 2025 at 6:25 AM
@bookcritics Samuel Johnson was born today, September 18, in 1709.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money."
--Samuel Johnson (Sept. 18, 1709 – Dec. 13, 1784)
September 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
@bookcritics.bsky.social @bookcritics There’s still time to act. Urge your Senators now to remove the dangerous cuts to public media before the vote. Enter your information to send your message.

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Urge Your Senators: Remove the Proposal to Cut Public Media Funding
Soon, the Senate will consider a package that would pull back approved public media funding. Email your Senators now!
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July 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
@bookcritics Raymond Carver was born today, May 25, in 1938.
May 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
@bookcritics Stanley Elkin was born today, May 11, in 1930.
May 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
@bookcritics Happy birthday, Richard Bausch!
April 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Congratulations are due to the biographer Cynthia Carr, whose new book Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar won the National @BookCritics Circle Prize for Autobiography. We talked to judge Mary Ann Gwinn about the whole shortlist—read it online here:
The Best Biographies: The 2025 NBCC Shortlist
The five books shortlisted for the NBCC biography prize in 2025, as discussed by Mary Ann Gwinn, critic and judge
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March 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Jane tells us how Toni Morrison called the @bookcritics.bsky.social “a wild faculty of sorts.” Which is a perfect description of the #nbcc #bookcritics
March 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
@bookcritics Mickey Spillane was born today, March 9, in 1918.
March 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Congratulations to Presidential Prof. Claire Bishop, whose book “Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today” is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle awards! mailchi.mp/bookcritics....
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February 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Art critics. A futile profession for those who could'nt find a real, decent job.

#art #artsky #artcritics #critics #bookcritics #creativity #artists
February 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
"This executive order is censorship, pure and simple, and it has no place in a free society."
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Statement on the Trump Administration’s Executive Order Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming Americans
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February 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I am over the moon! By The Fire We Carry is a finalist for a @bookcritics award!
January 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
@bookcritics.bsky.social announces finalists for the 2024 awards as well as the lifetime achievement award. You'll recognize many of these folks!
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Announcing the 2024 NBCC Awards Finalists!
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January 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
@bookcritics Happy birthday, Louis Menand!
January 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
@bookcritics.bsky.social @bookcritics David Keith Lynch was born today, January 20, 1946.
January 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The National Book Critics Circle Fiction Longlist Announced: America's largest critics body announced their books of the year finalists, the trouble… https://bookriot.com... #BookCritics #FictionLonglist
January 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Like twisty psychological #suspense? He said/she said? A fresh take on gender roles/how our expectations can lead to ... murder? Get ready for THE BUTTERFLY TRAP coming March 2025 from Severn House. (#Reviewers
#BookCritics pls reach out re ARCs!) www.amazon.com/Butterfly-Tr...
#mysteries #books
The Butterfly Trap
Amazon.com: The Butterfly Trap eBook : Simon, Clea: Kindle Store
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November 21, 2024 at 11:11 PM
Like twisty psychological thrillers? He said/she said? A fresh take on gender roles and how our expectations can lead to ... murder? Get ready for THE BUTTERFLY TRAP coming March 2025 from Severn House. (#Reviewers #BookCritics please contact me now for ARCs!) #mysteries #books #newbooks #suspense
November 18, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Holding Up Mirrors to the Self: 7 New #Poetry Collections to Read This June
David Woo Recommends Saba Keramati, Justin Rovillos Monson, Robert Pinsky, and Others
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#nbcc #bookcritics #verse #reading
Holding Up Mirrors to the Self: 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This June
Poets often talk about poetry in their poems, and what they say can hold a mirror up to reality in a way that blissfully convolutes the folds of a reader’s brain. With a lifetime of honorable servi…
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June 10, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Congrats to all the authors & #publishers on the @bookcritics 2023 finalists list—including a lot of university press treasure. @aupresses.bsky.social (I see you @jeffsharlet.bluesky.social👏)
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2023 - National Book Critics Ci...
Judy Blume, American Library Association to receive lifetime achievement awards New York, NY (January 25, 2024)—Today the National Book Critics Circle announced 30 finalists in six categories—auto...
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January 25, 2024 at 2:48 PM