1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

Visions of Jazz: The First Century

Gary Giddins

An outstanding voice in the field, the jazz critic for The Village Voice leads readers through the first century of the music in a voluminous, expert account of the great jazz artists past and present and their distinctive contributions. UP….

Hip Hop America

Nelson George

Out of Sheer Rage

Geoff Dyer

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

Harold Bloom

The Sounds of Poetry

Robert Pinsky