Welcome the nbcc and to welcome to this Years National book. Critics circles awards. The new school and the nbcc have a long standing relationship going back to the very earliest years of the nbcc. Our faculty have been Board Members and awards recipients and our communities have worked together in classrooms and and events since before the memory of anyone here, the annual awards have been hosted at the new school for over 20 years. This few years have been very challenging for all of us with covid, we are finally back on campus for an in real life nbcc simone and of course at the new school we are emerging from last fall when all of us were tested and our ideals and faith in one another and the future working with the nbcc is something to remind us what were here for and were enormously grateful to have a friendship that extends beyond any of us individually. To begin, i have to thank our teams at. T. A. At the new school for bringing us to this evening. Look out for stuart pennebake
Lynton history prize, mark lynton history prize and the j. Anthony prize, the work in progress prizes are administered jointly by Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for journalism at harvard md. And i want to introduce our host for this evening. Thats ann marie lipinski, Pulitzer Prize winning former editor of the chicago tribune, and the curator here of the Nieman Foundation. Weve got a good and very stimulating evening ahead. So ann marie. Were killing the music. Ive done it. Thats it. Its my folks that jazz. Its called the jazz lounge bar. In case anyones interested interested. Thank you, jonathan, and welcome everyone to the presentation of the j. Anthony lucas prize project honoring the very best of american Nonfiction Book writing in celebrating gifted writer winners this evening, we remember Pulitzer Prize winning journalist j. Anthony lucas, a 1969 nieman fellow, and the late mark linton, a history enthusiast and expert and Senior Executive at the firm Hunter
Hello, im john reed faculty here in the Creative Writing Program and the director of the creative Creative Writing Program at the new school. The one time i was on this stage, i was a board member of the nbcc chairing a category. Its my great honor tonight to welcome the nbcc and to welcome to this Years National book. Critics circles awards. The new school and the nbcc have a long standing relationship going back to the very earliest years of the nbcc. Our faculty have been Board Members and awards recipients and our communities have worked together in classrooms and and events since before the memory of anyone here, the annual awards have been hosted at the new school for over 20 years. This few years have been very challenging for all of us with covid, we are finally back on campus for an in real life nbcc simone and of course at the new school we are emerging from last fall when all of us were tested and our ideals and faith in one another and the future working with the nbcc is so
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