Conversations: SMALL PRESS SPOTLIGHT: ROGER SEDARAT

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Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic, Ohio University Press, 2008. Roger Sedarat, poet and translator, is currently assistant professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College/ City University of New

NBCC Reads: 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

NBCC Reads: 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

NBCC Reads: 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

NBCC Reads: 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

Conversations: Gary Snyder on Zazen

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Q: What does zazen do for the poetry? Do you feel that there is a relation there that helps somehow in the writing? A: I was very hesitant to even