Members and friends, if you’re planning to attend the Brooklyn Book Festival later this month, we’d love to invite you to a special event! On Friday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m. Eastern, at Community Bookstore in Park Slope, NBCC President Adam Dalva is moderating a panel on literary criticism featuring Emily Greenhouse, Joumana Khatib, and NBCC board members Zoë Hu and Joanna Biggs. You can reserve a spot for this free event here.
Member Reviews/Essays
Former NBCC board member Anita Felicelli reviewed Emily St. John Mandel’s Exit Party for Alta.
Julia Lloyd George reviewed Sail Away Land by Ben Pester for the Times Literary Supplement.
Chris Barsanti wrote about Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy for PopMatters.
NBCC lifetime member Heller McAlpin reviewed Lea Korsgaard’s The Butterfly Season for The Christian Science Monitor.
David Starkey reviewed three Swiss Exhibition catalogs and Emily St. John Mandel’s Exit Partyfor California Review of Books.
NBCC poetry chair and board member David Woo wrote about Carl Phillips’ In the Blood for West Branch.
Julia M. Klein reviewed Wendy Lesser’s Berlin Before and After for the Forward.
George Yatchisin reviewed Judd Apatow’s Comedy Nerd and Cameron Crowe’s The Uncool for California Review of Books.
Linda Hitchcock reviewed Brynne Rebele-Henry’s The Weight of One Pomegranate and Stig Abell’s A Twist in the River for BookTrib.
Yvonne C. Garrett reviewed Emily St John Mandel’s Exit Party for The Brooklyn Rail.
Ellen Prentiss Campbell’s new Girl Writing blog post for the Washington Independent Review of Books is about the bumper crop of fireflies this summer and related musings.
Brian Tanguay reviewed Lynn D. Jung’s Mothsblood for California Review of Books.
Catherine Parnell reviewed What Clever Friends: The Selected Letters of Jane Kenyon and Alice Mattison, edited by Chad Wriglesworth, for Compulsive Reader.
Diya Isha reviewed Tara Menon’s Under Waterfor Scroll.in.
Britta Stromeyer reviewed St. Ulphia’s Dead by Scott Lambridis for The Common.
Deborah Copperud reviewed former Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton’s new memoir, Perseverance, for Racket.
Member Interviews
Sullivan Summer interviewed plant biologist Dr. Beronda Montgomery about her book When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy on the Additions to the Archive podcast.
Former NBCC President and current advisory board member Jane Ciabattari’s Literary Hub conversation with Emily St. John Mandel about her new novel Exit Party covers dystopian fiction, doppelgangers, and writing speculative fiction about the counterlife of the individual and the counterlife of the United States.
NBCC board member Mary Ann Gwinn interviewed Seattle author David B. Williams about his new book, In the Range of Fire and Ice: A Human and Natural History of Washington’s Cascades, at the Burke Museum of Natural and History and Culture on the University of Washington campus.
Hope Reese interviewed Antonio Damasio for Greater Good Magazine.
NBCC board member Iris Jamahl Dunkle interviewed Doireann Ní Ghríofa about her new book, Said the Dead, for Finding Lost Voices.
Eric Olson interviewed Emily St. John Mandel for The Seattle Times.
Elaine Szewczyk profiled Japanese filmmaker and novelist Genki Kawamura for Publishers Weekly.
Member News
NBCC board member May-lee Chai and former NBCC President Laurie Hertzel will be in conversation for a virtual event on Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 4:30 p.m. Pacific/ 6:30 p.m. Central with Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis, to discuss their new books, My Hungry Ghosts (Blair) and Ghosts of Fourth Street (University of Minnesota Press), and how to tell the stories that haunt us. You can join the free Zoom event here.
Yana Kane’s poem “Now You” and her translation of a poem by Olga Zvyeryeva and her interview with the poet were published in The Inflectionist Review. World Literature Today published her translation of a poem by Andrei Kostinsky and her interview with the poet and her translation of a poem by Stansilav Lvovsky. Yana was interviewed as part of Princeton University’s 200th anniversary of the Alumni Association.
Chris Barsanti wrote the text for the 2027 edition of A Book Lover’s Page-a-Day Calendar.
Michael O’Donnell was interviewed at Chicago’s Printers Row Lit Fest by author Nancy Burke about his second novel, Concert Black.
Ellen Prentiss Campbell was interviewed by G.P. Gottlieb about her novel Vanishing Point.
Hélène Cardona’s screenplay Primate, co-written with John FitzGerald, is a 2026 Final Draft Big Break quarterfinalist.
Hannah Bonner’s novella Bree: An Autobiography is now out and available from Sticking Place Books.
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