Posts by Jane Ciabattari

About the Author

Jane Ciabattari is president of the National Book Critics Circle.

Reviews & Essays

Sag Harbor

By COLSON WHITEHEAD

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A beachfront coming-of-age in the '80s, from the author of The Intuitionist.

Lark and Termite

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Lark and Termite

By JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS

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Jayne Anne Phillips astonished readers with her prodigious first book of short stories, Black Tickets (1979), and her masterful Vietnam-era novel, Machine Dreams. She returns full blast with her...

The Letters of Allen Ginsberg

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The Letters of Allen Ginsberg

Edited by BILL MORGAN

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The headlong and irrerepressible voice that defined Beat poetry was also a diligent chronicler of a generation's frenetic energies.

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City of Refuge

By TOM PIAZZA

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Tom Piazza has emerged as a leading eulogist for pre-Katrina New Orleans. After being displaced by the storm, he wrote Why New Orleans Matters, a bluesy wail that voiced both grief and outrage....