Members and friends, we hope you’re doing well! This past week, our members have been hard at work with reviews of books by authors including Tash Aw, Ron Chernow, Judith Viorst, Sophie Gilbert, Madeleine Thien, and more, and interviews with writers such as Torrey Peters, Mai Der Vang, and Malcolm Harris. Take care, and as always, thanks for reading!
Member Reviews/Essays
NBCC board member Tobias Carroll wrote about a new edition of Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs for the Portland Press Herald.
Jenny Shank wrote about Jared Lemus’ debut story collection, Guatemalan Rhapsody, for America magazine.
John Leonard Prize reader Claude Peck reviewed The South by Tash Aw for The Minnesota Star Tribune.
Ron Slate reviewed Love and Need by Adam Plunkett, Hypochondria by Will Rees, and The Only Face by Herve Guibert for On The Seawall.
NBCC board member Mary Ann Gwinn reviewed Mark Twain, the new biography by Ron Chernow, for the Los Angeles Times.
For The Atlantic, Adam M. Lowenstein reviewed Gardiner Harris’ No More Tears: The Dark Secrets Of Johnson & Johnson and Charles Piller’s Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, And Tragedy In The Quest To Cure Alzheimer’s.
Hollay Ghadery reviewed Kate Gies’ It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished for the Literary Review of Canada.
Nell Beram reviewed two books for Shelf Awareness: Death on the Island by Eliza Reid and We Solve Murders by Richard Osman.
For The Red Hook Star-Revue, Michael Quinn reflects on Anne Frank’s legacy and how her story challenges us to confront today’s world.
Linda Hitchcock reviewed Selina Li Bi’s Sunlight Playing Over a Mountain and Judith Viorst’s Making the Best of What’s Left for BookTrib.
Martha Anne Toll reviewed Sulaiman Addonia’s The Seersfor Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
NBCC Co-Vice President/Fundraising and Grants Rebecca Morgan Frank’s May poetry review column is live at Literary Hub.
Diana Heald reviewed Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Costa Beavin Pappas wrote about the Street Vendor Project for Prism.
Carl Hoffman reviewed Ross Halperin’s Bear Witness: The Pursuit of Justice in a Violent Land for The Washington Post.
NBCC Co-Vice President/Events Lauren LeBlanc reviewed Madeleine Thien’s The Book of Records for The New York Times Book Review.
For her Girl Writing blog at the Washington Independent Review of Books, Ellen Prentiss Campbell wrote about a recent trip along the Civil Rights History Trail in Alabama.
NBCC board member Elizabeth Taylor reviewed Ron Chernow’s Mark Twainfor The Boston Globe.
Jack Rockwell reviewed Mauro Javier Cárdenas’ American Abductions for the Cleveland Review of Books.
Aiden Hunt reviewed Diannely Antigua’s Good Monster for The Rumpus.
Bridget Quinn reviewed Jordan Troeller’s Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury for Alta Journal.
Maryanne Hannan reviewed Poetry Is Not a Luxury by Anonymous for The Republic of Letters.
Clea Simon reviewed Robert Macfarlane’s Is a River Alive? for The Boston Globe.
Member Interviews
Costa Beavin Pappas interviewed Torrey Peters about Stag Dance for BOMB.
NBCC board member Tobias Carroll interviewed Madeleine Potter about her book The Roma: A Travelling History for Publishers Weekly.
For their Book Cougars podcast, NBCC member Chris Wolak and Emily Fine talked with Elissa Altman about her new memoir, Permission: The New Memoirist and The Courage to Create.
Jake Casella Brookins talked to Maia Gil′Adí, author of Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence, about Michael Zapata’s The Lost Book of Adana Moreau for the podcast A Meal of Thorns.
NBCC Co-Vice President/Membership and Vice President/Barrios Book in Translation Prize Mandana Chaffa interviewed Mai Der Vang about her collection Primordial for Chicago Review of Books.
For Drilled, Adam M. Lowenstein interviewed Malcolm Harris about What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis.
Hollay Ghadery interviewed Teri Vlassopoulos and Tracy Wai de Boer for Ricepaper magazine. And on New Books Network, Hollay also interviewed poets Mike Blouin, Chris Bailey, Kyle Flemmer, Rosa Castellano, and Manahil Bandukwala, as well as short fiction author Gary Barwin, hybrid author Christine McNair, and memoirist Linda Trinh.
Robert Allen Papinchak interviewed Alex Pavesi (Ink Ribbon Red) for Publishers Weekly.
Member News
Rebecca Kaiser Gibson reviewed NBCC member Lisa Russ Spaar’s debut novel, Paradise Close, for Tupelo Quarterly.
NBCC Co-Vice President/Membership and Vice President/Barrios Book in Translation Prize Mandana Chaffa will be interviewing Lydia Millet about her collection Atavists for The Brooklyn Rail’s New Social Environment series on Wednesday, May 28, at 1 p.m. Eastern. You can register for this free event here.
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