November 23, 2008
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Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of Ardor (Tupelo Press, 2008), In Medias Res (Sarabande Books, 2004), and a chapbook, God’s One Hundred Promises (Swan Scythe Press, 2002). Lee has
November 16, 2008
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Please, New Issues Press, 2008. Jericho Brown worked as the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving a Ph.D from the University of Houston. His poems have appeared
November 10, 2008
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For our next Long Tail entry, we’ve got suggestions from Art Taylor, a critic and professor at George Mason University, and Martha K. Baker, who writes about books for Episcopal
November 4, 2008
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Although we posted our omnibus summary of responses last week, we will continue to highlight individual choices through the end of this month. To kick off the Long Tail series,
October 30, 2008
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Visitors to Critical Mass will recall that we launched a new enterprise called “NBCC Good Reads” last fall. We are now rolling out a slightly tweaked version of the same
October 24, 2008
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Cadaver Dogs, No Tell Books, 2008. Rebecca Loudon lives and writes in Seattle. She’s the author of Tarantella and Radish King (Ravenna Press) and Navigate, Amelia Earhart’s Letters Home (No
October 18, 2008
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The anthology is one of those labors of love in the literary world, for the editor at least. The editor is the collector, the organizer, community-builder and, usually, the one-person
October 16, 2008
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This past spring former NBCC board member Steve Weinberg published Taking on the Trust:The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller, an account of the clash between one
October 11, 2008
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Evanescent Isles: From My City-Village, Hong Kong University Press, 2008. Xu Xi is one of Hong Kong’s leading English language writers. She is the author of seven books of fiction
September 27, 2008
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And now for something completely different…sort of. This year, I received five poetry books with CDs, so I was forced to take note. At first, the technophobe in me scoffed