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What Makes a Good Panel?

This was the question that Leon Neyfakh from the New York Observer asked a few people at the recent PEN Foundation annual gala. The answers aren’t all that provocative or surprising: Edmund White points out how most panels are “an exercise of competing egos rather than an effort to communicate or focus on the ...

The Future of Book Reviewing

For anyone in the New York area, the National Book Critics Circle will be hosting a week-long symposium on the Future of Book Reviewing. Officially entitled “The Age of Infinite Margins: Book Critics Face the 21st Century,” panel discussions will take place at Housing Works on Thursday, September 13th and ...