Category: Basic Text
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We Want Our Book! How About You? The 45th anniversary of the 4th World Literature Conference
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The 3rd World Literature Conference (WLC), and work that followed to print and mail the Memphis Review Form (also known as the Gray Review Form), could be characterized as an all-out endurance event. Bo S., Chair of the World Service Conference Literature Committee (WSC-LC), articulated the high hopes that the Narcotics Anonymous book would be…
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Consensus in Memphis: The 45th anniversary of the 3rd World Literature Conference
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January 31 – February 8, 1981. Four and a half months after the conclusion of the 2nd World Literature Conference (WLC), addicts gathered in Memphis, TN with two explicit goals: The 3rd WLC would produce the review form for the book Narcotics Anonymous (Basic Text). The review form was a culmination of the first two…
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Come Help Us Write the Big Book: The 45th anniversary of the 2nd World Literature Conference
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Eleven months after the 1st World Literature Conference (WLC), addicts gathered in Lincoln, Nebraska, to work on a book for Narcotics Anonymous. Many of the attendees first attended the 10th World Convention of NA (WCNA 10) in Wichita, KS, before traveling the 240 miles to Lincoln. Two of these travelers, attending their first WLC, brought…