April 27, 2008
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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,
April 4, 2008
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NBCC member Kate Christensen, novelist and critic, on what led up to her recent PEN/Faulkner award for “The Great Man.” (See notes on judging this year’s PEN/Faulker by NBCC Balakian
March 31, 2008
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The following essay from novelist Tony D’Souza continues the NBCC’s In Retrospect series, with an essay on J.M. Coetzee’s 1999 novel “Disgrace,” which was a finalist for the National Book
March 17, 2008
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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
March 13, 2008
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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
March 5, 2008
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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
March 4, 2008
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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
March 3, 2008
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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
March 3, 2008
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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
February 29, 2008
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It’s fitting that the NBCC Good Reads Panel in Philadelphia needed a chalk board. That’s because we held our event, where we talked about everything from the New York Times