May 6, 2008
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The End of the World Book, University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. Alistair McCartney teaches creative writing at Antioch University in Los Angeles. His work is widely represented in various literary
May 6, 2008
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NBCC board member Scott McLemee, winner of the NBCC Nona Balakian award for his critical work, offers these two books as his picks for the NBCC Good Reads Spring 2008
May 5, 2008
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NBCC Nona Balakian winner for best critic of the year Steven G. Kellman’s recommendation for his favorite work of fiction for Spring 2008: The Waitress Was New by Dominique Fabre,
May 4, 2008
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The votes are in, and this weekend the National Book Critics Circle announces the Spring 2008 NBCC Good Reads list:Recommendations From NBCC members, award winners and finalists. The NBCC Good
April 29, 2008
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NBCC member Robin Hemley, director of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa (and a new Guggenheim fellow), offers this guest post drawn from his thoughts on teaching
April 28, 2008
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The History of Anonymity, University of Georgia Press Jennifer Chang’s poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Kenyon Review, New England Review and Boston Review. She co-chairs the advisory board
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 22, 2008
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Tameme, Inc. C.M. Mayo is the founder of Tameme, Inc, whose mission is to promote English-to-Spanish and Spanish-to-English literary translation by publishing new writing from North America—Canada, the U.S., and
April 18, 2008
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NBCC board member Maureen McLane recently talked with Daniel Walker Howe about his book, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, which was a finalist for the 2007
April 11, 2008
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It was a terrible cloud at twilight, Pleiades Press, 2008. Alessandra Lynch is also the author of Sails the Wind Left Behind. She was born on the East River and