A chat with Blake Bailey, who won the National Book Critics Circle 2009 biography award for his book “Cheever: A Life.”

NEW YORK — Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall," winner last year of the Man Booker Prize in London, was honored Thursday night on this side of...

       The National Book Critics Circle Award winners have been announced -- though not at the official site, last I checked (sigh).        See, instead, for example, Motoko Rich's report.        The only title covered at the comp...

Joyce Carol Oates picked up her first lifetime achievement award Thursday night at the National Book Critics Circle 2009 Awards Ceremony.

Hilary Mantel, author of "Wolf Hall," was among the winners of the National Book Critics Circle awards announced Thursday evening in New York.

Mr. Hannah's first novel, "Geronimo Rex," was nominated for a National Book Award and his 1996 short story collection, "High Lonesome," was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Mr. Hannah's first novel, "Geronimo Rex," was nominated for a National Book Award and his 1996 short story collection, "High Lonesome," was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Former state poet laureate Lucille Clifton, a National Book Award winner whose work was lauded for its "moral quality," died Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital...

I’ll be a judge again this year for the National Academies Communication Award, a $20,000 prize for excellence in reporting on science. The prize is awarded in four categories: Book Magazine/Newspaper Film/Radio/TV Online The nomi...

Rachel Zucker is a wife, a mother, a teacher, a doula and a grouchy subway rider. Now, she's also a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.

By April Hunt, AJC The Little Shop of Stories is among 13 nominees for the Women’s National Book Association’s Pannell Awards. The award recognizes retail bookstores that excel at inspiring young people to read. This year’s awards, ...

By April Hunt ajc A Decatur bookstore has been nominated for a national award for its work with young readers.The Little Shop of Stories is among 13 nominees for the Women’s National Book Association’s Pannell Awards. The award ...

NEW YORK — Man Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel and National Book Award finalists Jayne Anne Phillips and Bonnie Jo Campbell were among the nominees...

Winners to be named March 11, Joyce Carol Oates wins Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing goes to Joan Accocela.

Rae Armantrout, Versed (Wesleyan) Louise Glück, A Village Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) D.A. Powell, Chronic (Graywolf Press) Eleanor Ross Taylor, Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960–2008 (Louisiana State University Pres...

The fiction list includes four books by women, three of which have already gotten some award love from the National Book Award and the Booker Prize.

An American will win the Nobel Prize in Literature. It will not be Barack Obama.The Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics’ Circle Award will be given to three different novels. All three authors will be prof...

While you’re here, please consider purchasing a copy of the Regret the Error book, which won an award for media criticism from the National Press Club, and also contains hundreds of hilarious corrections. You can learn more about th...

Keith Waldrop, who just won the National Book Award in poetry for his Transcendental Studies, is a quilter in phrases. He eschews any intention or...

It's no secret that I love the writing of Denis Johnson. I reported on Tree of Smoke, the National Book Award winner here. It is the long, ambitious story of American involvement in Southeast Asia as done by a sort of post-modern Gr...