March 16, 2008
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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
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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This week, the In Retrospect series is looking back at Richard Price’s 1992 fiction finalist, Clockers. What follows is the third and final part of a three part interview (parts
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
March 2, 2008
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This week, the In Retrospect series is looking back at Richard Price’s 1992 fiction finalist, Clockers. What follows is the second of a three part interview (parts 1 and 3
March 1, 2008
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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
February 29, 2008
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This week, the In Retrospect series is looking back at Richard Price’s 1992 fiction finalist, Clockers. What follows is the first of a three part interview (parts 2 and 3