Members and friends, we hope you’re doing well! Our members have been busy this past week with reviews of books by authors including Maggie O’Farrell, Greg Sarris, Emily LaBarge, and Domenico Starnone, and they also have some exciting news to share. Take care, and thanks for reading!
Member Reviews/Essays
Diane Scharper reviewed Land by Maggie O’Farrell for the Washington Examiner.
For Words Without Borders, Cory Oldweiler wrote about The Summer of the Serpent, written by Cecilia Eudave and translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers.
Joan Frank reviewed Greg Sarris’ The Last Human Bear for Alta.
Megan Peck Shub reviewed Tarantula, written by Eduardo Halfon and translated from the Spanish by Daniel Hahn, for Haaretz.
Jenessa Abrams reviewed Emily LaBarge’s Dog Daysfor the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Linda Hitchcock reviewed Diane Josefowicz’s The Great Houses of Pill Hill and Uzma Jalaluddin’s Midnight Murder for BookTrib.
Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr. reviewed Kate Crane’s What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane?for his Substack and Al Dawson’s Searching for Norikofor Feathered Quill.
Robert Allen Papinchak reviewed David Streitfeld’s Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry for The Times Literary Supplement and The Old Man by the Sea, written by Domenico Starnone and translated from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky, for World Literature Today.
Martha Anne Toll contributed to NPR’s 15 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Summer and reviewed Michelle Brafman’s Draw Near to Me for Lilith.
Bruce Krajewski reviewed Andrea Hairston’s The Redemption Center Is Closed on Sundays for the Ancillary Review of Books.
Member Interviews
Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr. interviewed Al Dawson for Feathered Quill.
Deborah Copperud wrote a profile of comedian Jackie Kashian for Racket.
Member News
Roxana Robinson was chosen for the Heather Cox Richardson project, 250 to 250, celebrating the nation’s 250th birthday, in which Richardson’s team asks people to talk about a national event to which they have some connection. Roxana appears in this video, discussing Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was written by her great-great-great-aunt, Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Jamie Brown’s From the Volcano: An Acid Odyssey was shortlisted for the Kenneth Patchen Innovative Novel Prize.
Catherine Parnell’s flash fiction “The Magus” appeared in Vox Populi.
Terese Svoboda was interviewed by Sean Singer about her poetry for his Substack, The Sharpener.
Deborah Copperud was featured on Minnesota Public Radio as an “Art Hound” recommending a festival of New Southwest Asian and North African plays organized by New Arab American Theater Works.
“Green Library.” by Christopher Matson is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.