Members and friends, we hope you’re doing well! Our members have been busy this past week with reviews of books by authors including Andrea Gunraj, Anne Hellman, Heather Morris, Kevin Sampsell, and Mary Lavin, and interviews with writers Kai Bird, Kyra Davis Lurie, and Min Jin Lee. Take care, stay cool, and thanks for reading!
Member Reviews/Essays
Kaelie Giffel contributed four capsule reviews to Asymptote’s What’s New in Translation column for June.
Former NBCC board member and Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing recipient Steven G. Kellman wrote an essay on translation, “If You See the Translator, Don’t Shoot,” for The Montréal Review.
Carey Mott reviewed Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Trading Company, 1750–1850, edited by Laurel O. Peterson and Holly Shaffer, for Foreign Policy.
Rebecca Ruth Gould wrote about Edward Said’s Representations of the Intellectual and The Question of Palestine for The Textual Materialist, where the essay is now available after first appearing in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Brian Tanguay reviewed Go-Between Girl by Andrea Gunraj and Winning the Earthquake by Lorissa Rinehart for the California Review of Books.
Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr. reviewed Anne Hellman’s The Indecipherables for PopMatters, Joe Tidy’s Ctrl+Alt+Chaos: How Teenage Hackers Hijack the Internet for Rain Taxi, and Jeff Apter’s Roy Orbison: King of Heartsfor his Substack.
Linda Hitchcock reviewed Heather Morris’ The Wishand Andrew Forrester’s How the Story Goes for BookTrib.
Jeff Alessandrelli reviewed Kevin Sampsell’s Baby in the Night for Full Stop.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson reviewed Sarah Minor’s Carousel for The Brooklyn Rail.
Morgan Leigh Davies wrote about Mary Lavin’s reissued collected stories, An Arrow in Flight, for The Sewanee Review online.
For The Gay & Lesbian Review, Michael Quinn reviewed two books about the relationship between photographer Peter Hujar and artist Paul Thek: The Wonderful World That Almost Was by Andrew Durbin and Paul Thek and Peter Hujar: Stay Away From Nothing, edited by Francis Shichtel.
For The Orange County Register, NBCC Online Chair Michael Schaub wrote about 50 books that, considered together, form a snapshot of the U.S., past, present, and future.
Member Interviews
Gayle Feldman wrote a profile of Kai Bird, co-author of the new Roy Cohn biography American Scoundrel, for The Bookseller.
Sullivan Summer interviewed screenwriter and author Kyra Davis Lurie about her novel The Great Mann, a reimagining of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, for the Additions to the Archive podcast.
Elaine Szewczyk profiled Min Jin Lee for Publishers Weekly.
Member News
NBCC member Ellen Prentiss Campbell was interviewed by Joy Manning in Cleaver about her new novel, Vanishing Point.
NBCC lifetime member Greg Sarris’ third novel, The Last Human Bear, was published last month by Heyday Press, whose publisher is former NBCC board member Steve Wasserman. Sam Sacks reviewed the book for The Wall Street Journal. Digital review copies and hard-copy ARCs are available now and can be requested from the publicist, Kalie Caetano, at kalie@heydaybooks.com.
Jeff Alessandrelli launched a new Substack focused on small press writing and publishing called The Good Man Has No Shape. Jeff’s nonprofit press Fonograf Editions has an imprint, BUNNY, that writer/editor Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore will now helm; Publishers Weekly covered the change.
Brink, the non-profit independent publisher of hybrid writing edited by NBCC member Hannah Bonner, has some upcoming opportunities. There’s the Brink Prize for Hybrid Fiction, judged by Billy-Ray Belcourt; the winner receives $700 and publication in Brink. There’s also the Emerging Writer Fellowship in Hybrid Writing; the winner receives one-on-one mentoring during the fall and publication in Brink. And they’re offering an online class on July 20, taught by Alisha Jeddeloh and Lauren Childs, called “Engage, Generate, Reflect: Hybrid Writing in the Classroom.”
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