The National Book Critics Circle announced its award winners Thursday, March 11th:

Fiction: Jennifer Egan, A Visit From The Goon Squad

Poetry: C. D. Wright,  One with Others: [a little book of her days]

Criticism: Clare Cavanagh, Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West (on order)

Biography: Sarah Bakewell, How To Live: Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (on order)