Friends, we hope you’re doing well and having a great autumn! Our members have been busy this week with reviews of books by authors including Alan Hollinghurst, Robert Harris, Rachel Kushner, and Louise Erdrich, and interviews with writers including Luis Jaramillo, Joshua Mohr, and Kristopher Jansma. Thanks so much for reading!
Member Reviews/Essays
Charlie Tyson reviewed Alan Hollinghurst’s Our Evenings for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Former NBCC board member Tess Lewis reviewed Adam Ehrlich Sachs’ Gretel and the Great War for The Berlin Journal.
Carl Hoffman reviewed Abbott Kahler’s Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II for The Washington Post.
NBCC Vice President/Treasurer Jacob M. Appel reviewed Seth Rogoff’s The Castle for Heavy Feather Review.
Jake Casella Brookins reviewed Ananda Lima’s Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil for Locus.
NBCC board member Tobias Carroll wrote about novels that put a speculative spin on the workplace novel for Reactor.
Shani R. Friedman reviewed Alice Hoffman’s When We Flew Awayfor TC Jewfolk and Ruth Westheimer’s The Joy of Connectionsfor Hey Alma.
Linda Hitchcock reviewed Robert Harris’ Precipice and James R. Benn’s The Phantom Patrol for BookTrib.
Joan Frank reviewed Betsy Lerner’s Shred Sistersfor The Washington Post.
Sean Carlson’s essay “Ghosts of Scene Sites Past” on the lost era of local music-scene websites in the late ’90s and early ’00s was published in Gulf Coast’s “Karaoke: Encore!” folio of new music writing.
Nell Beram reviewed two books for Shelf Awareness: Forces of Nature by Edward Steed and Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison by Seth Rogovoy.
Kai Maristed reviewed Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lakefor The Arts Fuse.
NBCC John Leonard Prize reader Claude Peck wrote about a memorable Boundary Waters canoe trip for the Minnesota Star Tribune.
Ellen Prentiss Campbell reviewed Louise Erdrich’s The Mighty Redfor the Washington Independent Review of Books.
Britta Stromeyer reviewed Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda, translated by Heather Cleary and Julia Sanches, for Necessary Fiction.
Randy Cepuch reviewed Marty Makary’s Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Healthfor the Washington Independent Review of Books.
Diane Josefowicz reviewed Tidal Waters by Velia Vidal, translated by Annie McDermott, for Rain Taxi.
Karl Wolff reviewed Brothers and Ghosts, written by Khuê Phạm and translated by Charles Hawley and Daryl Lindsey, for The Driftless Area Review.
Member Interviews
Asymptote Journal published “alchemic / exchange / we fade bruises here”: an interview between editor Rajiv Mohabir and NBCC member Tiffany Troy on editing I Will Not Go: Translations, Transformations & Chutney Fractals.
Jake Casella Brookins talked to Juan Martinez, fiction editor at Jackleg Press, about Michael McDowell’s novel Gilded Needles for the podcast A Meal of Thorns.
Gerry Fialka, experimental filmmaker and Frank Zappa’s archivist, has done a second interview with NBCC member Mary Mackey on YouTube concentrating on her novels. You can watch the first interview here.
NBCC board member Tobias Carroll interviewed Robert Elms for InsideHook and Ryan Chapman and Kristopher Jansma for Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
Esther Kim interviewed translator Janet Poole about Pyongyang author Choe Myeongik’s Patterns of the Heart for Electric Literature.
Ellen Prentiss Campbell interviewed Jody Hobbs Hesler for Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
Jack Rockwell interviewed Wendy Call about tri-lingual books, indigenous poetics in translation, and more for Full Stop.
Grant Faulkner interviewed Joshua Mohr about writing the punk rock novel, his new book, Saint the Terrifying, on the Write-minded podcast.
NBCC Co-Vice President/Events Jane Ciabattari interviewed Luis Jaramillo, whose first novel, The Witches of El Paso, is “a luminous, seductive, at times surreal chronicle of the lives of several generations of women who inherit a mysterious gift.”
Adam M. Lowenstein spoke with Casey Michel about his new book, Foreign Agents, for his newsletter, Reframe Your Inbox.
Member News
NBCC member Susan Bernofsky will be in conversation with NBCC board member Marie Myung-Ok Lee about Susan’s recent translation of Yoko Tawada’s Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel, on Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. at Book Culture in New York. You can register for the event here.
Terese Svoboda’s novels The Long Swimand Roxy and Cocowere reviewed by Jessica Poon in The British Columbia Review.
Jamie Brown’s post/pre-op journal, Aftermath and Other Poems, has just been released by Moonstone Press in Philadelphia. The series of poems relates to his Sept. 12, 2016, aortic dissection and the 14-hour surgery that saved his life, the lengthy rehab from that, followed by the news that he would have to have a follow-up surgery, and the poems leading up to that surgery and the recovery room following (thus the subtitle, “a post/pre-operative journal”). A few review copies are available to NBCC members from the author; please email jamie_brown@earthlink.net.
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