August 16, 2008
By NBCC
The Fortieth Day, Boa Editions, 2008. Kazim Ali is also the author of The Far Mosque (Alice James Books, 2005) and the novel Quinn’s Passage (blazevox books, 2004). A new
August 2, 2008
By NBCC
Shadow Mountain, Four Way Books, 2008. Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan was born in Santa Monica and raised in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. in English from Loyola Marymount University in Los
July 29, 2008
By NBCC
News of the changes in the Los Angeles Times Book Review continues to swirl after the publication of the last stand-alone LATBR on Sunday. Yesterday the Los Angeles Times published
July 26, 2008
By NBCC
My Daughter’s Eyes and Other Stories, Curbstone Press. Annecy Baez is the winner of the 2007 Curbstone Press Marmol Prize for First Latina Fiction. Her Recent fiction is anthologized in
July 18, 2008
By NBCC
The Evolution of a Sigh, Hanging Loose Press, 2008. R. Zamora Linmark is the author of Prime Time Apparitions and Rolling the R’s, which he adapted for the stage. He
July 15, 2008
By NBCC
The following essay by NBCC member Tim Brown on “No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920,” by T.J. Jackson Lears, a finalist for the 1981
July 12, 2008
By NBCC
Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, University of Georgia Press, 2008. A native of Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill has an M.F.A. from the University of Houston, where he was awarded the
July 8, 2008
By NBCC
The following essay by NBCC poetry award winner Troy Jollimore, on Don DeLillo’s Libra, a finalist for the 1988 NBCC award in fiction, is part of the NBCC’s “In Retrospect”
July 5, 2008
By NBCC
Tongue & Groove, University of Illinois Press. Stephen Cramer’s first book of poetry, Shiva’s Drum, was selected for the National Poetry Series in 2004. His second, Tongue & Groove, was
July 1, 2008
By NBCC
“Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen,”Sidney Offit’s new memoir, covers some 60 years of American literary life, from encounters with H.L. Mencken in his native Baltimore, where he also recalls meeting