Friends, we hope you’re doing well! Our members have been busy this past week with reviews of books by authors including A. Kendra Greene, Susan Coll, Gish Jen, David McCullough, and Catherine Newman, and interviews with writers such as Beth Macy, Susan Cheever, and Julian Brave NoiseCat. Take care, and thanks for reading!
Member Reviews/Essays
NBCC board member Tobias Carroll wrote about Hiron Ennes’s new novel, The Works of Vermin, for Reactor and reviewed Agnes Bushell’s Verity & Perpetua for the Portland Press-Herald.
Nicholas Birns reviewed David Unger’s novel In My Eyes You Are Beautiful for Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas.
Laura Johnsrude reviewed No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity by A. Kendra Greene for Good River Review.
Marcie Geffner reviewed The Literati, a novel by Susan Coll, for the Washington Independent Review of Books.
Ryan Chapman talked about this year’s Booker Prize shortlist on The Lit Hub Podcast.
NBCC Tech VP and Membership Co-VP Rebecca Hussey reviewed Sea Now, written by Eva Meijer and translated from the Dutch by Anne Thompson Melo, for Words Without Borders.
Catherine Parnell reviewed Our Precious Wars, written by Perrine Tripier and translated from the French by Alison Anderson, for Compulsive Reader.
Charles Green reviewed Tamara Lesley’s A Chosen Journey for Blueink Review.
Tiffany Troy reviewed Everything in Life Is Resurrection by Cyrus Cassells for Life & Legends and When We Only Have the Earth, written by Abdourahman A. Waberi and translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson, for World Literature Today.
Carol Iaciofano Aucoin reviewed Gish Jen’s Bad Bad Girl for WBUR’s Arts & Culture.
Linda Hitchcock reviewed Jaclyn Westlake’s Lucky Break and David McCullough’s History Matters for BookTrib.
Kevin Anthony Brown’s essay-review of Henry James Comes Home, together with Henry James’ On Writers and Writing, appeared in the New English Review.
Heller McAlpin reviewed Catherine Newman’s Wreck for NPR.
Nell Beram reviewed four books for Shelf Awareness: It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin by Marisa Meltzer; The Last Spirits of Manhattan by John A. McDermott; The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz; and What a Way to Go by Bella Mackie.
Member Interviews
NBCC lifetime member Heather Green and Jiyu Seo interviewed artists Koi and Hyungmee Shin for Asymptote’s visual section.
Hope Reese talked to Beth Macy, author of Paper Girl, for Greater Good Magazine.
Stephen Patrick Bell interviewed Susan Cheever for BOMB.
Hollay Ghadery interviewed Sadiqa de Meijer and Zilla Jones for the New Books Network.
Anne Charles interviewed SaraEllen Strongman, the editor of Essential Poems by Pat Parker, for the cable-access program All Things LGBTQ.
Paul Wilner interviewed Julian Brave NoiseCat about We Survived The Night for the Nob Hill Gazette.
For the podcast A Meal of Thorns, Jake Casella Brookins talked to author Timothy Moore about Donald Barthelme’s 60 Stories.
Member News
Sullivan Summer was interviewed by Brooklyn Poets in conjunction with the launch of her chapbook, Performance Anxiety (Black Sunflowers Poetry Press) and reading event A Celebration of Adoptee Voices scheduled for November 8.
Clea Simon’s first four “Witch Cats of Cambridge” cozy mysteries (A Spell of Murder, An Incantation of Cats, A Cat on the Case, and To Conjure a Killer) are being reissued by Level Best Books, following the demise of Polis Books. A new witch cat mystery, The Cat’s Eye Charm, will follow in December.
Hollay Ghadery has a new chapbook with Anstruther Press.
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