Members and friends, we hope you’re doing well! Our members have been busy this past week with reviews of books by authors including Ann Patchett, Isaac Fitzgerald, chaun webster, and Ben Mezrich, and interviews with writers Steven Thrasher and Sangamithra Iyer. Take care, and thanks for reading!
Member Reviews/Essays
Jennifer Howard reviewed Meg Wolitzer and Charlie Panek’s Found Sound and Aida Salazar’s Streamfor The New York Times Book Review.
NBCC board member Craig Morgan Teicher wrote about seven new poetry collections to read this June for Literary Hub.
Priscilla Gilman reviewed Whistler by Ann Patchett for The Boston Globe.
Charles Green reviewed Alexandra Anton’s Santiaga: A Freedom Tale and Doyle Glass’ Codename Lionel for Blueink Review.
Linda Hitchcock reviewed Isaac Fitzgerald’s American Rambler and Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll, Jr.’s Ghosts of Sicily for BookTrib.
Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr. reviewed Consented: A Doctor’s Call to End Medical Violence and Reclaim Patient Autonomy by Zed Zha for his new Substack newsletter.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson wrote about chaun webster’s Without Terminus: Untraining an Archive for The Brooklyn Rail.
Heller McAlpin reviewed Deborah Levy’s My Year in Paris With Gertrude Stein for NPR and Maggie O’Farrell’s Land for The Christian Science Monitor.
Julia M. Klein reviewed Ben Mezrich’s Checkmate for The Wall Street Journal.
Suzana Vuljevic wrote about how the work and literary training of Ibrahim Rugova, leader of Kosovo’s non-violent resistance movement, informed his political philosophy for New Lines Magazine.
Member Interviews
Sullivan Summer interviewed professor and journalist Steven Thrasher about his book The Overseer Class: A Manifesto for the Additions to the Archive podcast.
Parul Kapur spoke to memoirist Sangamithra Iyer about her book Governing Bodies, a reflection on a family legacy of nonviolence, activism and ethical living going back to colonial India, for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Member News
Ben Fountain’s new novel, Rasputin Swims the Potomac, will be published by Flatiron Books on June 9.
“Father in the Rain,” a poem written by Arbër Selmani and translated from the Albanian by NBCC member Suzana Vuljevic, appeared in World Literature Today.
Jane Rosenberg LaForge interviewed NBCC member Terese Svoboda about Hitler and My Mother-in-Law for Tiferet‘s summer issue.
Cate Lycurgus interviewed NBCC member Ryan Teitman about his new poetry collection, Paperweight, for The Adroit Journal.
Sullivan Summer will be in conversation with historian Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, author of Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me, at Liz’s Book Bar in Brooklyn on June 9 at 7 p.m. Tickets are available here.
The poem “Quiet” by Robert Allen Papinchak has been published by North of Oxford.
“Typewriter” by AppleDave is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.