Members and friends, we hope you’re having a great summer! Our members have been busy this past week with reviews of books by authors including Rachel Cusk, Jesse Malin, Michael Symmons Roberts, Jenny Colgan, and Dahlia de la Cerda, and interviews with writers such as Chad Harbach, William Kent Krueger, and Allie Rowbottom. Take care, and thanks for reading!
Member Reviews/Essays
NBCC lifetime member Heller McAlpin reviewed Rachel Cusk’s Life of M for NPR and Valeria Luiselli’s Beginning Middle End and Katy Simpson Smith’s The Maltese Version for The Wall Street Journal.
David Starkey reviewed Almost Grown by Jesse Malin for the California Review of Books.
Brian Tanguay reviewed Brought To You By by Amy Westervelt for the California Review of Books.
Julia Lichtblau reviewed Liz Johnston’s The Fall-Down Effect and Eoghan Walls’ Field Notes from an Extinction for The Common.
Morgan Leigh Davies wrote about the final entry in Philip Pullman’s Book of Dust trilogy, The Rose Field, for Fansplaining.
Erick Verran reviewed Michael Symmons Roberts’ Dog Star for the Times Literary Supplement.
Jack Sullivan reviewed Hitchcock and Herrmann: The Friendship and Film Scores That Changed Cinema by Steven C. Smith for Hitchcock Annual.
Linda Hitchcock reviewed Michael Calvin and Naftali Schiff’s Miracle, Sarah Vaughn’s Based on a True Story, and Jenny Colgan’s Meet Me at the Seaside Cottages for BookTrib.
Britta Stromeyer reviewed Medea Sang Me a Corrido, written by Dahlia de la Cerda and translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary and Julia Sanches, for World Literature Today.
Joan Frank reviewed Rachel Cusk’s Life of M for The Boston Globe.
For Fjord Review, Michael Quinn wrote about attending a memorial for legendary dance critic Joan Acocella and the unexpected connections her writing created.
McKenzie Watson-Fore reviewed Shanda McManus’ Brother Epistles for Full Stop.
Member Interviews
Nina Palattella interviewed two authors about their forthcoming books for Kirkus Reviews’ Fall Preview: Chad Harbach, author of The Brightness, and Catherine Grace Katz, author of Shadow Before the Flame: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Prelude to War.
Zachary Fletcher interviewed novelist Peter Rock for USA Today and sports journalist Peter King for Publishers Weekly.
For The New York Times’ The Local: Twin Cities, Jay Gabler interviewed William Kent Krueger about his new novel, God’s Country.
Julia M. Klein interviewed Angela Duckworth, Adam Grant, and Martin Seligman about their new books for The Pennsylvania Gazette.
Sullivan Summer interviewed cultural organizer and educator Dr. Chris Rogers about his book, My City Need Something: Portraits and Prose for Black Existence, on the Additions to the Archive podcast.
NBCC Online Chair Michael Schaub interviewed Krista Diamond and Allie Rowbottom for The Orange County Register.
Member News
NBCC Emerging Critic Fellow Michelle Chan Schmidt translated “Chinese Medicine or the Dance of Grief” by Hongkongese writer Tang Siu Wa for issue 127 of Wasafiri, “Solidarities.”
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