Friends, we hope you’re having a good summer! Our members have been busy this past week with reviews of books by authors including Elisa Shua Dusapin, Siân Hughes, Laura Marris, Kevin Barry, and more. They also have some interviews and exciting news for you. Thanks so much for reading, and stay safe!
Member Reviews/Essays
NBCC Emerging Critics Fellow Noelle McManus reviewed Elisa Shua Dusapin’s Vladivostok Circusfor Necessary Fiction.
Tiffany Troy reviewed A Cha Chaan Teng That Does Not Exist by Derek Chung, translated by May Huang, and Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch? by Cyrus Cassells for The Inflectionist Review.
Robert Rubsam wrote about the life and work of Else Lasker-Schüler for the Poetry Foundation.
Parul Kapur reviewed Tania James’ Loot, longlisted for the National Book Award and recently released in paperback, for The Rumpus.
Former NBCC President Laurie Hertzel reviewed The Boys of Riverside, a book of narrative nonfiction by Thomas Fuller, for the Los Angeles Times; and Pearl, a novel by Siân Hughes, for The Boston Globe.
Ellen Prentiss Campbell wrote about Rachel Carson and the pleasures of imagining we can talk to the birds for the Washington Independent Review of Books.
Former NBCC board member Anita Felicelli reviewed Laura Marris’ The Age of Loneliness for the Los Angeles Times.
Cory Oldweiler reviewed Peggy by Rebecca Godfrey with Leslie Jamison for The Boston Globe and The Potato Eaters by Farhad Pirbal, translated by Jiyar Homer and Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse, for The Markaz Review.
In The Brooklyn Rail, John Domini reviewed the latest from Yoko Tawada, Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel, translated by Susan Bernofsky.
Tom Peebles reviewed Caroline Moorehead’s Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe on his personal blog.
Former NBCC board member Mark Athitakis reviewed Norman Lock’s novel The Caricaturist for On the Seawall.
Nell Beram reviewed three books for Shelf Awareness: Eye of the Beholder by Emma Bamford, The Woman Who Lied by Claire Douglas, and The Wrong Hands by Mark Billingham.
Allan Graubard reviewed Christine Rosen’s The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied Worldfor Leonardo.
Yvonne C. Garrett reviewed Kevin Barry’s The Heart in Winter for The Brooklyn Rail.
Jake Casella Brookins reviewed Laura van den Berg’s State of Paradise for the Chicago Review of Books.
Jim Swearingen wrote about Until August by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Anne McLean, and reading an author posthumously, for The National Book Review.
Lisa Russ Spaar wrote about four recent and forthcoming second books of poems for The Adroit Journal.
Member Interviews
NBCC Co-Vice President/Events Jane Ciabattari’s Literary Hub conversation with Helen Phillips focuses on writing speculative fiction in the age of artificial Intelligence.
NBCC Vice President/Online Michael Schaub interviewed Jesse Katz about The Rent Collectors for the Orange County Register.
Member News
NBCC Emerging Critics Fellow Hannah Bonner’s poetry collection Another Woman will be published on Aug. 13 from EastOver Press.
Parul Kapur’s debut novel, Inside the Mirror, winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel, has been longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s 2024 First Novel Prize and the 2024 New American Voices Award, co-sponsored by Fall for the Book and the Institute for Immigration Research at George Mason University.
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