Friends, we hope you’re enjoying the last days of summer! Our members have been keeping busy with reviews of books by authors including Garth Greenwell, Danzy Senna, Téa Obreht, Rae Armantrout, Vi Khi Nao, and more, and interviews with writers like Luis Jaramillo, A.V. Marraccini, and Christina Lynch. As always, thanks so much for reading!
Member Reviews/Essays
NBCC Emerging Critics Fellow Hannah Bonner wrote about the Crossroads Film Festival in San Francisco at Screen Slate.
Kitty Kelley reviewed Mary Gabriel’s Ninth Street Womenfor the Washington Independent Review of Books.
Edna Bonhomme reviewed Natasha Trethewey’s The House of Being for The Nation.
Rhoda Feng reviewed Garth Greenwell’s Small Rainand Helen Phillips’ Humfor The Boston Globe and Téa Obreht’s The Morningside for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Former NBCC board member Walton Muyumba wrote about Danzy Senna’s Colored Televisionfor Alta.
NBCC Barrios Book in Translation Prize Vice President Mandana Chaffa reviewed Rae Armantrout’s Go Figure for the Chicago Review of Books.
Clea Simon reviewed Brian VanDeMark’s Kent State: An American Tragedy for The Boston Globe.
Martha Anne Toll reviewed Twenty Years: Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation by Sune Engel Rasmussen for The Washington Post and Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers in the Skyfor the Washington Independent Review of Books.
Linda Hitchcock reviewed Jenny Colgan’s Close Knit and Kerryn Mayne’s Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder for BookTrib.
Tom Peebles reviewed Heather Cox Richardson’s Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America on his personal blog.
Robert Allen Papinchak reviewed The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan by Domenico Starnone, translated by Oonagh Stransky, for World Literature Today.
Dan Kubis reviewed Vi Khi Nao’s The Italy Letters for the Chicago Review of Books.
Jim Schley reviewed three recent books of poems by Kellam Ayres, Mary Elder Jacobsen, and Alison Prine in Seven Days.
Yvonne C. Garrett reviewed Siân Hughes’ Pearl for The Brooklyn Rail.
JoeAnn Hart reviewed Presence by Brenda Iijima for Terrain.org.
Jake Casella Brookins reviewed Anton Hur’s Toward Eternity for Locus.
Randy Cepuch reviewed Brian VanDeMark’s Kent State: An American Tragedy for the Washington Independent Review of Books.
Member Interviews
For the Fall Preview issue of Kirkus Reviews, Nina Palattella interviewed Ayana Elizabeth Johnson about What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures and Luis Jaramillo about The Witches of El Paso.
Former NBCC board member Anita Felicelli interviewed Danzy Senna about Colored Television for Alta.
Jake Casella Brookins talked to former NBCC Emerging Critics Fellow A.V. Marraccini about Olga Ravn’s novel The Employees, translated by Martin Aitken, for the podcast A Meal of Thorns.
Paul Wilner spoke with Obi Kaufmann about his latest, The State of Fire: Why California Burns, and Nina Schuyler about her linked story collection, In This Ravishing World, for the Nob Hill Gazette.
Robert Allen Papinchak interviewed Christina Lynch for Publishers Weekly.
Member News
NBCC board member Iris Jamahl Dunkle was featured on the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast with Kelly McMasters.
Rebecca Foust’s sonnet crown, “Pissed-Off Ars Poetica,” was featured in The Common, and other recently published poems include “Ocean Beach” and “Pasiphae” in The Florida Review, “Pictograph” in Tikkun, and “Imago” in A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia.
Hollay Ghadery’s third book and debut short story collection, Widow Fantasies, was released on Sept. 1 by Gordon Hill Press. You can read an interview with Hollay about the book here.
NBCC member Simone Muench and Jackie K. White’s collaborative book The Under Hum (Black Lawrence Press) was published in June and recently reviewed in the London Grip. Reviewer Charles Rammelkamp says of the collection, “Not only is this exquisite collection a collaborative effort between two master poets, Simone Muench and Jackie K. White, it also incorporates voices from the whole universe of poetry … You want to stand up and applaud!” You can read the full review here.
Terese Svoboda’s Roxy and Coco was reviewed by Jay Boss Rubin in The Common’s “What We’re Reading” column.
Yana Kane has three translations of poetry of witness from Ukraine in Interpret Magazine, and poetry in View.Point magazine. She participated in a YouTube presentation of the latest issue of RHINO Poetry, where she has 2 translations.
The Abduction (White Pine Press), Hélène Cardona’s translation of Le Rapt by Maram Al-Masri, was reviewed by Eman Quotah in The Markaz Review.
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