Members and friends, we hope you’re doing well! Our members have been busy over the past week with reviews of books by authors including Heather Ann Thompson, Alexander Graham-Dixon, Maggie O’Farrell, Tom Perrotta, and Edward Said, and interviews with writers such as Jane Smiley, Melissa Auf der Maur, and Teddy Wayne. Take care, and thanks for reading!
Member Reviews/Essays
Charlotte Rosen wrote about Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage by Heather Ann Thompson and Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York’s Explosive ’80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nation by Elliot Williams for The Baffler.
Brian Tanguay reviewed Nyla Matuk’s Leila & Khaled for the California Review of Books.
Diane Scharper reviewed Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found by Alexander Graham-Dixon for the Washington Examiner.
Diane Josefowicz reviewed Three Stories of Forgetting by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin, for Necessary Fiction.
Linda Hitchcock reviewed Adriane Leigh’s Society Women and J.R. Thornton’s Lucien for BookTrib.
David Starkey reviewed The Norton Lectures Centenary Editions for the California Review of Books.
Sarah Johnson reviewed Maggie O’Farrell’s Land for Booklist.
Tom Peebles reviewed Phillippe Sands’ 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia on his blog.
Julia M. Klein reviewed Julia Langbein’s Dear Monica Lewinsky for the Los Angeles Times.
Cory Oldweiler reviewed Tom Perrotta’s Ghost Townfor The Boston Globe.
Ryan Ruby reviewed Edward Said’s Representations of the Intellectual for Bookforum and wrote about Christian Bök’s completion of The Xenotext, a record of his two decade long experiment with poetry and bioart, for Now Voyager.
Sarah Dowling reviewed Damion Searls’ Analog Days and Gail Scott’s Furniture Music for the Cleveland Review of Books.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson reviewed Jan Staller’s Manhattan Project for Hyperallergic.
Robert Allen Papinchak reviewed David Armstrong’s Broadway Nation: How Immigrants, Jewish, Queer, and Black Artists Invented the Broadway Musical and Mick Rock’s Rocky Horror: A Behind-the-Scenes Look At The Cult Classic, both for The Gay & Lesbian Review.
Member Interviews
Former NBCC board member Anita Felicelli profiled Jane Smiley and Joshua Wheeler for Alta.
Eric Olson interviewed Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur about her new memoir for The Seattle Times.
Rebecca Brenner Graham interviewed historian Emily Sneff about her new book, When the Declaration of Independence Was News, for Smithsonian Magazine.
NBCC lifetime member Heather Green interviewed poet Kristin Dykstra for Asymptote’s visual section.
Elaine Szewczyk profiled Teddy Wayne for Publishers Weekly.
Member News
Christopher Kempf was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry.
Former NBCC board member Marie Marie Myung-Ok Lee will be in conversation with Jimin Han about Jimin’s new book, Dreamt I Found You, at Books Are Magic Montague in Brooklyn, on April 29 at 7 p.m. You can get tickets here.
Ryan Ruby has a poem in Harper’s, three poems in the Berlin Review, and a poem forthcoming in the next issue of Death Kit.
Hope Reese appeared on CNN to discuss the election in Hungary, as well as her book, The Women Are Not Fine: The Dark History of a Poisonous Sisterhood.
Dianę Josefowicz’s second novel, The Great Houses of Pill Hill, was featured in Steve Steinbock’s “The Jury Box” in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and is a Publishers Lunch notable pick for May. NBCC members are warmly invited to the New York City launch! She’ll be in conversation with Jaclyn Gilbert at P&T Knitwear, 180 Orchard St., on Thursday, May 7, at 6:30 p.m.
Abby Frucht’s collection of stories, The Bell at the End of a Rope, first issued by Narrative Library before Narrative decided no longer to publish full-length books, has been revised, enhanced, and reissued as an ebook at Dzanc. The author thanks Michelle Dotter, the late Dan Wickett, and all others at Dzanc for their careful attention to this project.
“Shakespeare and Company bookshop” by Alexandre Duret-Lutz is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.