Friends, we hope you’re having a good summer! Our members have been busy with reviews of books by authors including Elaine Hsieh Chou, Phoebe Greenwood, Daniel Saldaña París, and Li-Young Lee, and interviews with writers such as Garrett M. Graff, Jessica Frances Kane, and Jonathan Parks-Ramage. Take care, and thanks for reading!
Member Reviews/Essays
Carey Mott reviewed Andrea Louise Campbell’s Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes and Ruth Braunstein’s My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Sarah Dowling reviewed Damion Searls’ new translation of Charlotte Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams: Nightmares of a Nation for Parapraxis.
NBCC board member May-lee Chai reviewed Elaine Hsieh Chou’s new story collection, Where Are You Really From?, for The Minnesota Star Tribune.
Robert Allen Papinchak reviewed Phoebe Greenwood’s Vulture for the Los Angeles Times.
Linda Hitchcock reviewed Todd S. Purdum’s Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television for BookTrib.
Julia M. Klein reviewed Sam Wachman’s The Sunflower Boys for the Forward.
Cory Oldweiler wrote about Daniel Saldaña París’s The Dance and the Fire, translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney, for the Southwest Review.
Michael Quinn has a letter to the editor in the Aug. 11 issue of The New Yorker, reflecting on the history and preservation of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery.
Aiden Hunt reviewed I Ask My Mother to Sing: Mother Poems of Li-Young Lee for New Pages.
Nell Beram reviewed three books for Shelf Awareness: Generation Tarantino: The Last Wave of Young Turks in Hollywood by Andrew J. Rausch; Mean Moms by Emma Rosenblum; and The Sandersons Fail Manhattan by Scott Johnston.
Member Interviews
Sullivan Summer interviewed writer and professor Irvin Weathersby Jr. about his new nonfiction work, In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space, for the New Books Network.
Elaine Szecwczyk interviewed Garrett M. Graff for Publishers Weekly about his new book The Devil Reached Toward the Sky, an oral history of the Manhattan Project and the dropping of the atomic bomb.
NBCC member Robert L. Giron was interviewed by Noa Nissim Kobliner at the Potomac Review.
NBCC Co-Vice President/Events Jane Ciabattari’s Literary Hub conversation with Jessica Frances Kane focuses on how Fonseca, Kane’s new novel, explores how she fictionalized the complicated personal life of iconic British author Penelope Fitzgerald in writing about Fitzgerald’s sojourn in Northern Mexico in 1952.
Hollay Ghadery interviewed Chris Hutchinson, Bianca Marais, Greg Rhyno, Tracy Wai de Boer, MA|DE, James Cairns, Alpha Nkuranga, Lindsay Zier-Vogel, Natalie Lim, John De Vore, Kay Sohini, Kathryn Mockler, Alice Fitzpatrick, Christy Climenhage, Catherine Bush, Connor Lafortune and Lindsay Mayhew, Callista Markotich, Daryl Sneath, Jack Wang, Elizabeth Green, Alexis Von Konigslow, James Cairns, Zachari Logan, and Saad Omar Khan on the New Books Network.
NBCC Vice President/Online Michael Schaub talked to Jonathan Parks-Ramage about It’s Not the End of the World for The Orange County Register.
Member News
Natalie Bakopoulos’ third novel, Archipelago, will be published on Aug. 19 by Tin House Books.
Former NBCC board member Rod Davis’ new novel, Life in the Time of Hurricanes (TCU Press), will be released Sept. 15, although pre-orders are available now. More information, including the cover, a statement on the release date 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, a small synopsis, and links to obtaining copies for reviewers, is provided here by the publisher.
Kelly Schoenegge, the editor of Broad Ripple Review, shares that the magazine is looking for a reviews/interviews editor. Current NBCC membership is preferred. Interested writers can apply here and can email Kelly with any questions.
Hope Reese’s The Women Are Not Finewas reviewed by Kathryn Hughes at the Daily Mail.