National Book Critics Circle
The organization was founded April 1974 in New York City by "John Leonard, Nona Balakian, and Ivan Sandrof intending to extend the Algonquin round table to a national conversation". Wikipedia*
On the C-SPAN Networks:
National Book Critics Circle has hosted 23 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1996 Forum. The year with the most events was 2005 with one event. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2015 with an average of 1,290 views per video. Most appearances with Steven G. Kellman (6), James Marcus (5), Carlin Romano (4). Most common tags: Arts & Literature, About Books, Book Business.