[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: Sign the NBCC Petition - Support the AJC Book Review!

[Amanda J Labagnara]

Sign the NBCC Petition - Support The AJC Book Review!

PEN USA asks all book lovers to take a moment to read the following words,
click the link and sign the petition.

"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).   

In just over a day, the petition has picked up 300  signatures, including
dozens of writers -- a slew of * major * 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. 

http://www.petitiononline.com/atl2007/petition.html
<http://www.petitiononline.com/atl2007/petition.html%20>    

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: 

http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/
<http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/%20%20>  

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?)   

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. 

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 America with alarming speed. 

Yrs, 

John Freeman 
President 
National Book Critics Circle 
25 East 10th Street , 8B   
New York , NY 10003   
Jfreeman4 at nyc.rr.com" 

Taken from an email written by John Freeman to Elizabeth Calamari, Director
of Publicity Pantheon/Schocken Books of April 23, 2007

 

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