Members of the National Book Critics Circle will vote on Carlin Romano’s removal from the board on Monday afternoon. A meeting will be held on Zoom at 5 pm EDT to discuss the situation, followed by a secret ballot. Romano wrote a lengthy open letter to members on Monday morning, giving his side of the controversy, which began in June with the drafting of an anti-racist statement. “I don’t believe I’ve done anything that remotely resembles what non-profit law or courts interpret as the rigorous standard of ’cause,'” Romano writes in an introduction to the letter. “My crime is to […]