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Steven Kellman reviews “Lifted By the Great Nothing,” by Karim Dimechkie, for the San Antonio Current.
Carl Rollyson reviews a new biography of T. S. Eliot for the Star Tribune.
John Strawn on Jon Ronson and Toni Morrison for The Oregonian.
NBCC Board Member Jane Ciabattari picks 10 books to read in May for her Between the Lines book column for BBC.com, now in the UK as well as the US and the rest of the world:Edna O'Brien, Margaret Lazarus Dean, the complete Patrick Melrose novels, first novels from Jabari Asim and Patricia Park.
Also, Ciabattari's short story collection, California Tales (2014), is now on Audible.
Amy Gentry reviews Kate Atkinson's “A God in Ruins” for the Chicago Tribune.
Micah McCrary interviews Maggie Nelson for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Daniel Dyer on “A Young General and the Fall of Richmond,” in The Plain Dealer.
Harvey Freedenberg on William Maxwell's “So Long, See You Tomorrow” in Harrisburg Magazine.
Heller McAlpin on Jane Smiley's “Early Warning” for NPR.org.
Janette Currie reviews “The Old Straight Track” by Alfred Watkins in the TLS.
Hope Reese on “The Folded Clock” by Heidi Julavits, for the Chicago Tribune.
Sebastian Stockman reviews “The Top of His Game” for the Boston Globe.
NBCC Board Member Colette Bancroft on Kate Atkinson's “A God in Ruins” for the Tampa Bay Times.
Mary Mackey interviews Marge Piercy.
Julia M. Klein reviews Richard Dunn's “A Tale of Two Plantations” for the Pennsylvania Gazette.
NBCC Board Member David Biespiel's latest essay in The Rumpus.
Dominic Green on Hilary Mantel and Todd Endelman.
Katherine Powers of the NBCC Board reviews “The Making of Zombie Wars” for the Chicago Tribune.
Megan Labrise interviews Elizabeth Alexander for Kirkus.
NBCC Board Member Carmela Ciuraru's latest “Newly Released” column for the New York Times.
Ellen Akins reviews “Early Warning” by Jane Smiley for the Star Tribune.
Andrew Ervin on Toni Morrison and Adam Thirlwell. Also: Soho Press has just published Ervin's debut novel, “Burning Down George Orwell's House.”