VMK

new poem in The Worcester Review 😸 www.theworcesterreview.org/issues/volum...

national book critics circle 2025 LONGLIST AUTOBIOGRAPHY Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday) The Broken King, by Michael Thomas (Grove) I'II Tell You When I'm Home, by Hala Alyan (Avid Reader Press) Memorial Days, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking) Mother Mary Comes to Me, by Arundhati Roy (Scribner) Paper Girl, by Beth Macy (Penguin) Shattered, by Hanif Kureishi (Ecco) Things in Nature Merely Grow, by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) A Truce That Is Not Peace, by Miriam Toews (Bloomsbury) Twice Born: Finding My Father In the Margins of Biography, by Hester Kaplan (Catapult)

national book critics circle 2025 LONGLIST AUTOBIOGRAPHY Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday) The Broken King, by Michael Thomas (Grove) I'II Tell You When I'm Home, by Hala Alyan (Avid Reader Press) Memorial Days, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking) Mother Mary Comes to Me, by Arundhati Roy (Scribner) Paper Girl, by Beth Macy (Penguin) Shattered, by Hanif Kureishi (Ecco) Things in Nature Merely Grow, by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) A Truce That Is Not Peace, by Miriam Toews (Bloomsbury) Twice Born: Finding My Father In the Margins of Biography, by Hester Kaplan (Catapult)

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Autobiography

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Criticism

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Fiction

Join us on October 7 as we talk with Gwendolyn Harper translator of the late Pedro Lemebel’s “A Last Supper of Queer Apostles,” winner of the 2024 Barrios Book in Translation Prize!

Attendance is free, but registration is required. Register at tinyurl.com/2025translation

Merci!

Excited and honored to be part of this 🤩🤩🤩

Super fun and awesome list that you should check out btw.

Passenger Anecdote I was also once a girl in a car with a man (in Toronto, no less).

The most normal girl in the world has just written around Exotica. open.substack.com/pub/foulplay...

Atom Egoyan and I are inextricably linked in the sense that I grew up in Toronto and he sometimes shoots movies there.

The most normal girl in the world has just watched Exotica.

Covers of the books on the longlist for the NBCC Award for Criticism.

We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Criticism! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/16/2...

Covers of the books on the longlist for the NBCC Award for Fiction.

We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Fiction! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/16/2...

The National Book Awards 2024 longlist announcements will take place from December 16 to December 19.

We're excited to announce that in honor of our 50th anniversary—and for the first time in our history—we'll be revealing longlists for our NBCC Awards! We'll be announcing the lists next week, so please watch this space. And thank you so much for your support!

This is where I post from

Blue background with white logo and text overlay. Logo reads “50 Years National Book Critics Circle 1974 2024” White text reads “Giving Tuesday: Support the Art of Literary Criticism and Honor Outstanding Literature.”

Our culture needs critical voices, and we need your help. Founded in 1974, the National Book Critics Circle supports the art of literary criticism and honors outstanding literature. Please consider supporting the NBCC’s work with an annual or one-time donation. bookcritics.org/donate
#GivingTuesday

American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar
Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz tr. Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff
Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid by Evelyn Lau
Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis

Are You Enjoying? by Mira Sethi
Mariam Sharma Hits the Road by Sheba Karim
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
American Estrangement by Said Sayrafiezadeh

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Aimee by Mary Beth Miller
Waiting for the Light by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Tenderness by Robert Cormier
Maria, Maria and Other Stories by Marytza K. Rubio
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz
Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Adèle by Leïla Sliman tr. Sam Taylor
The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi tr. Polly McLean
Am I Disturbing You? by Anne Hébert tr. Sheila Fischman

Rich by Craig Raine
Splinters by Leslie Jamison
With Shuddering Fall by Joyce Carol Oates
Transmission by Hari Kunzru

Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill
Isabelle Huppert - Vivre Ne Nous Regarde Pas by Murielle Joudet
48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister by Joyce Carol Oates
Separation by Dan Franck

Murray Hall!—English, Creative Writing

Objective proof that your friends are psy-ops is if they like movies that you don’t. If they were really your friends they would dislike them. It has to be government interference, there’s no other explanation.

Consent by Vanessa Springora tr. Natasha Lehrer
You Should Have Left. by Daniel Kehlmann tr. Ross Benjamin
Fresh girls and other stories by Evelyn Lau
Wittgenstein's Lolita and The Iceman by William Gay

A thread of every single book I've read in 2024:

I have always wondered how people with "Abdul" compound names write their names. Is the first name both names or just "Abdul"? I knew a pair of brothers named Abdul Rakim Waqar and Abdul Latif Waqar, and confusingly they went by Abdul R. Waqar and Abdul L. Waqar!