Members and friends, we hope you’re doing well! Our members have been busy this past week with reviews of books by authors including Lauren Groff, Grant Ginder, Heather Ann Thompson, Christopher Beha, and Beth Ann Fennelly, and interviews with writers such as Geetanjali Shree, Kim Fu, and Ali Smith. Take care, and thanks for reading!
Member Reviews/Essays
NBCC Emerging Critics Fellow Diya Isha wrote about Emerald Fennell and the way her films obscure popular imaginings of excess, and why she thinks that ultimately makes for bad films, for The Swaddle. She also wrote about the careerist spectacle that is the literature festival for The Swaddle.
Natalie Bakopoulos wrote an essay about the choice to name, or not name, real places in fictional worlds for Poets & Writers.
Dean Rader reviewed The Eternal Dice: Selected Poems of César Vallejo, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa, for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Priscilla Gilman reviewed Brawler by Lauren Groff for The Boston Globe.
Diane Scharper reviewed The Undead by Svetlana Satchkova for National Review.
Hope Reese wrote about five books for setting better boundaries for The New York Times.
Tom Peebles reviewed Peter Hayes’ Profits and Persecution: German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust on his personal blog.
Margot Mifflin reviewed Matt Lodder’s Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art for Winterthur Portfolio.
Sean Carlson reviewed the lighting design behind Gregory Alan Isakov’s recent concert with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra at the Providence Performing Arts Center for Rhode Island’s alternative monthly Motif magazine.
Sarah McCraw Crow reviewed Grant Ginder’s So Old, So Young; Belle Burden’s Strangers; and Bsrat Mezghebe’s I Hope You Find What You’re Looking For for BookPage.
Charlotte Shane wrote about the work of Daniel Berrigan for Bookforum.
Charles Green reviewed Mike Maimone’s Guess What? I Love You for Blueink Review.
McKenzie Watson-Fore has a reading list at Electric Literature called “8 Books Featuring Cathartic Bathhouse Scenes.” The list includes work by Min Jin Lee, Michelle Zauner, E.J. Koh, Leslie Jamison, Kimberly King Parsons, Bryan Washington, Athena Dixon, and Jacky Grey.
Michael Bobelian reviewed Heather Ann Thompson’s Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage and Elliot Williams’ Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York’s Explosive ’80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nationfor The Washington Post.
Linda Hitchcock reviewed Jenna Blum’s Murder Your Darlings for BookTrib.
Bill Thompson reviewed Thirty-Two Words for Field by Manchan Magan for the Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier.
Clea Simon wrote about the “Which Side” concert/teach-out series based on James Sullivan’s 2019 book, Which Side Are You On?: 20th Century American History in 100 Protest Songs, for The Arts Fuse.
Joan Gelfand reviewed Sheila Smith McKoy’s The Bones Beneath for North Carolina Literary Review.
Martha Anne Toll reviewed Christopher Beha’s Why I Am Not an Atheistfor Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
Tony Miksanek’s review of Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds by Scott Solomon was Booklist‘s featured “Review of the Day” for February 26.
Ryan Teitman reviewed Beth Ann Fennelly’s The Irish Goodbye for the Chicago Review of Books.
Linda Norton wrote about meeting Eileen Myles and reading Chelsea Girls for the first time for The Ruins.
Member Interviews
NBCC Emerging Critics Fellow Karen Chalamilla interviewed writer, critic and academic Dr. Ainehi Edoro about her recently published book Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think, which is about forest representations in African fiction, for Africa Is a Country.
Natalia Holtzman interviewed the International Booker Prize-winning Geetanjali Shree for Kirkus Reviews.
Sarah McCraw Crow interviewed author Deepa Anappara about her new historical novel The Last of Earth for BookPage.
Eric Olson had a craft-centric discussion with Lauren Groff for Literary Hub, and interviewed Kim Fu for The Seattle Times.
Sullivan Summer interviewed scholar of feminist rhetorical theory Rev. Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson, Ph.D., about her book A Black Woman for President: Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris for the New Books Network.
Elaine Szewczyk profiled Ali Smith for Publishers Weekly.
Member News
Hope Reese was interviewed about her book The Women Are Not Finefor Hungarian Literature Online.
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