2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

Notes From No Man’s Land: American Essays

Eula Biss

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize Acclaimed for its frank and fascinating investigation of racial identity, and reissued on its ten-year anniversary, Notes from No Man’s Land begins…

Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

Stephen Burt

Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression

Morris Dickstein

Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture

David Hajdu

Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music

Greg Milner