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<p class=style1><strong><b><font size=5 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Sign the NBCC Petition -
Support The AJC Book Review!</span></font></b></strong></p>
<p class=style1><em><i><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>PEN USA asks all book lovers to take a moment to read the
following words, click the link and sign the petition.</span></font></i></em></p>
<p class=style1><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"Following
the events of last week, the NBCC, the National Book Critics Circle, has
started an online petition to protest the Atlanta Journal Constitution's
decision to eliminate its book editor job (and with it Teresa Weaver).
<br>
<br>
In just over a day, the petition has picked up 300 signatures, including
dozens of writers -- a slew of * <strong><b><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>major </span></font></b></strong>* crime
novelists ­ Michael Connelly, Denis Lehane, James Lee Burke, Karin
Slaughter ­ as well as Southern literary eminences, like Allan Gurganus
and Clyde Edgerton. Here's the link. <br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/atl2007/petition.html%20">http://www.petitiononline.com/atl2007/petition.html
</a> <br>
<br>
The petition is part of a whole campaign the NBCC launched this morning
on our blog, Critical Mass, which features an original piece by George
Saunders, an interview with David Ulin, of the L.A. Times Book Review, as
well as some commentary: <br>
<br>
<a href="http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/%20%20">http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/
</a><br>
<br>
Would you please consider signing this petition and forwarding it to
people you might think care? (As in, your writers, [and]... to friends
and family?) <br>
<br>
Also, would you ask some of your writers to participate? We're still
looking for short commentary to put on our blog or for people to write in
to their newspapers. <br>
<br>
I think if we can up with many, many signatures this would get the AJC
executives' attention, and maybe beat back a trend which is spreading
across </span></font>America with alarming speed. <br>
<br>
Yrs, <br>
<br>
John Freeman <br>
President <br>
National Book Critics Circle <br>
25 East 10th Street , 8B <br>
New York , NY 10003 <br>
Jfreeman4@nyc.rr.com" </p>
<p class=style1><em><i><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Taken from an email written by John Freeman to Elizabeth
Calamari, Director of Publicity Pantheon/Schocken Books of </span></font></i></em><em><i><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>April 23, 2007</span></font></i></em></p>
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