Guest Post: Ferlinghetti’s “Coney Island” at 50

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NBCC board member Oscar Villalon, book editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, gives us permission to reprint NBCC member Barbara Berman’s review of NBCC Sandrof award winner Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s classi,

Guest Post: Report from the Salon du Livre

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NBCC member Lauren Elkin sends this report from Paris: Boycotts, bomb threats, falling panels and fisticuffs: it’s time for another Salon du Livre de Paris. Every year, the Salon du

Guest Post: A Farewell to ‘Zines

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NBCC member Tim W. Brown offers this wrapup of ‘zine culture, which by the early twenty-first century has given way to the blogosphere. The immediate predecessors to zines were punk

In Retrospect: White Teeth

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The following essay from NBCC member Christine Thomas continues the NBCC’s In Retrospect series, kicking off a week of posts on Zadie Smith’s 2000 finalist, White Teeth. In the fall

Scott Phillips on Richard Price’s Clockers

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The following essay on Richard Price’s “Clockers” comes to us from novelist Scott Phillips. It concludes the NBCC’s In Retrospect series look at Price’s 1992 NBCC fiction finalist. I was

Around the World with the NBCC 8

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Former NBCC finalist Patrick Cockburn has the lead review in the Times this weekend, of a new book by Robin Wright, which argues there’s a change coming across the Middle

Rafiyq Abdellah on Clockers

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The following comment on Richard Price’s 1992 NBCC finalist, Clockers, comes from Rafiyq Abdellah, a model for the character Strike in the book. He first met Richard Price in the