Members and friends, mark your calendars for a new event coming later this month! Three of the most accomplished poetry critics today, Stephanie Burt, Anahid Nersessian, and David Orr, will discuss being a poetry critic, the state of poetry criticism, and the pleasures and practicalities of becoming such a critic now. NBCC President Adam Dalva will introduce the panel, and NBCC board members Rebecca Morgan Frank and David Woo will serve as moderators. This Zoom event, which will take place on June 26 at 6 p.m. Eastern, is free and open to the public! You can register now at this link. We hope to see you there!
Member Reviews/Essays
Sheila McClear reviewed Amy Larocca’s How to Be Well for The Atlantic.
James Marcus reviewed Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings, edited by Brigitte Bailey, Noelle A. Baker, and Megan Marshall; Finding Margaret Fuller by Allison Pataki; and Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism by Randall Fuller for The New Yorker.
Jim Ruland reviewed Barry Gifford’s No Daylight in That Face: Adventures in Film Noir for Alta.
Linda Hitchcock reviewed Robert M. Edsel’s Remember Us: American Sacrifices, Dutch Freedom, and a Forever Promise Forged in World War II and Leonie Swann’s Big Bad Wool for BookTrib.
For The Red Hook Star-Revue, Michael Quinn reviewed Erik Piepenburg’s Dining Out: First Dates, Defiant Nights, and Last Call Disco Fries at America’s Gay Restaurants.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson reviewed Peter Mendelsund’s Exhibitionist for Hyperallergic.
JoeAnn Hart reviewed There Are Reasons For This by Nini Berndt for Ecolit Books.
Yvonne C. Garrett reviewed Julia Alvarez’s The Cemetery of Untold Stories for The Brooklyn Rail.
Jake Casella Brookins reviewed Robert Jackson Bennett’s A Drop of Corruption for Locus.
Brian Tanguay reviewed Mark Kurlansky’s Cheesecakefor the California Review of Books.
Richard Scott Larson reviewed Tash Aw’s The South for the Chicago Review of Books.
Michele Sharpe reviewed Joan Lunden’s Old Stranger for On the Seawall.
Eric Olson wrote a profile/review of Caroline Fraser’s Murderland, which connects Pacific Northwest serial killers to environmental contamination, for Seattle Met.
Member Interviews
JIm Ruland interviewed Mike Magrann of Channel 3 about his book Miles Per Gallon for Message from the Underworld.
Elaine Szewczyk profiled British novelist Holly Smale, whose YA Geek Girl series inspired a Netflix show, for Publishers Weekly.
Member News
Meg Waite Clayton’s Typewriter Beach (Harper, July 1) is included on the Publishers’ Weekly list of 12 recommended fiction summer reads. It received starred reviews from Library Journal (“Thought-provoking and timely, it’s sure to be a big summer hit”) and PW (“Irresistible…Readers will be riveted”). E-galleys are available on Edelweiss and NetGalley, or email meg@megwaiteclayton.com to be connected with her publicist for a finished book for review.
“1302 San Francisco-154” by Devon Christopher Adams is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.