Friends, we’re happy to announce two upcoming NBCC events that we’re really excited about. As part of the Brooklyn Book Festival, our board member Lauren LeBlanc will be hosting a John Leonard Prize conversation with authors Tess Gunty (The Rabbit Hutch) and Zain Khalid (Brother Alive) at Community Bookstore on Friday, Sept. 27, at 7 p.m.
We’ll also be hosting a Zoom event with Mandana Chaffa, Vice President of the Barrios Book in Translation Prize, in conversation with Maureen Freely, translator of Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü, the winner of the 2023 Barrios Prize, on Wednesday, Oct. 9, at 6:30 p.m. Attendance is free, but registration is required—you can do so here.
Thanks so much for reading!
Member Reviews/Essays
NBCC board member Tobias Carroll wrote about some August books in translation for Words Without Borders and revisited M. John Harrison’s novel Climbers for Literary Hub.
Cory Oldweiler reviewed Sebastian Smee’s Paris in Ruins for The Minnesota Star Tribune.
Tara Cheesman reviewed The Final Curtain, the last book in Keigo Higashino’s Detective Kaga series, for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Celia McGee reviewed Lady Pamela: My Mother’s Extraordinary Years as Daughter to the Viceroy of India, Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen, and Wife of David Hicks by India Hicks for Air Mail.
Former NBCC board member and recipient of the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Steven G. Kellman reviewed Richard Bernstein’s Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer for The American Scholar.
Nicole Yurcaba’s review of Kateryna Pylypchuk’s The War That Changed Us was published in New Eastern Europe.
Sheila McClear reviewed Anna Marie Tendler’s Men Have Called Her Crazy for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Anne Charles reviewed Conversations with Sarah Schulman, edited by Will Brantley, for The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide.
Nell Beram reviewed four books for Shelf Awareness: Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime by Leonie Swann and translated by Amy Bojang; The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves; Portrait of the Art Dealer as a Young Man: New York in the Sixties by Michael Findlay; and The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker by Amy Reading.
George Yatchisin reviewed Tricia Romano’s The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of The Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture for the Santa Barbara Independent.
Jake Casella Brookins reviewed Michael J. DeLuca’s The Jaguar Mask for Locus.
Priscilla Gilman reviewed Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout for The Boston Globe.
Brian Tanguay reviewed Time of the Child by Niall Williams for the California Review of Books.
Member Interviews
NBCC board member Tobias Carroll talked with Orlando Whitfield about his memoir All That Glitters and Dean Jobb about his book A Gentleman and a Thief for InsideHook.
NBCC Vice President/Online Michael Schaub interviewed Maxim Loskutoff for the Orange County Register.
Member News
Clea Simon’s 2021 music world novel of suspense, Hold Me Down, has been reissued by Bloodhound Books. Writing in The Boston Globe, Nina MacLaughlin said, “In electric prose, Simon conjures the rock-and-roll world, its drink, drugs, and band-dynamics, and the twin seductresses of excess and success, as she makes a penetrating portrait of friendship.”
Former NBCC board member Rod Davis was featured in the daily newsletter Connecting, which reaches 1,900 current and former AP employees, as well as other journalists and media venues. Rod was with the AP in the early 1970s, back from the Army, in Dallas and Austin bureaus. Scroll about two-thirds down for the item and photos on his Korea/Vietnam Era novel, The Life of Kim and the Behavior of Men.
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