April 9, 2008
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Frederick Kaufman is the author of “A Short History of the American Stomach,” newly released from Harcourt. It’s a riot. As the jacket copy says, “with outraged wit and an
April 5, 2008
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The Translator’s Diary, New Issues Press, 2008.Jon Pineda’s first collection Birthmark was a selection of the 2003 Crab Orchard Award Poetry Series from Southern Illinois University Press. The recipient of
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
April 2, 2008
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NBCC member Adam Dunn, author of the forthcoming “Rivers of Gold,” about New York taxicabs, sent us a few words from Colin Harrison, whose new novel “The Finder” brings together
March 31, 2008
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Some Clarifications y otros poemas, Arte Público Press. Javier O. Huerta is currently a doctoral student at U.C. Berkeley, where his research interests include the naughty poetics of Keats and
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 28, 2008
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In response to Scott McLemee’s Wednewsday post, NBCC member Jerome Weeks aka BookDaddy sent this report on the changes in the book pages of the Dallas Morning News during his
March 25, 2008
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In her poetry, story collections and novels, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores the experience of contemporary Indian women, mostly immigrants to America adjusting to life in the New World. Like the
March 23, 2008
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If I Die in Juárez, University of Arizona Press, 2008. Stella Pope Duarte is also the author of Let Their Spirits Dance (2002) and the story collection Fragile Night (1997).
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