Patti Jazanoski reviews Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do for Consquence Magazine. Kai Maristed reviewed Peter Stamm's To The Back of Beyond for The Arts Fuse. She also reviewed the poetry collection Dots & Dashes by Jehanne Dubrow for the Military Spouse Book Review. New NBCC member Alison Buckholtz reviews two novels for the Florida Times-Union: Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney amd Elif Batuman's The Idiot. Gail Pool's essay, “ The Case for Classics,” was published by WBUR's Cognoscenti. NBCC board member Kerri Arsenault interviews new FSG Vice President, Colin Dickerman, on Lithub, for her column “Interview with a Gatekeeper.” She also reviews Inara Verzemnieks’s book, Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe, for the Brooklyn Rail. (An unthinkable question!) And she reviewed Jonathan Eig's biography, “ Ali: A Life,” for the Star Tribune.ĭavid Varno has new reviews up, including Rodrigo Hasbún’s Affections, in Words Without Borders, and Juan Villoro's The Reef, in the Brooklyn Rail She also wrote her weekly column pondering which books to save in the event of a hurricane or other natural disaster.

NBCC board member and Minneapolis Star-Tribune senior editor for books Laurie Hertzel interviewed “Five Under 35” winner Lesley Nneka Arimah about the honor. Eileen Weiner reviewed it for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 10/1/17

Priscilla Gilman reviewed Manhattan Beach for the Boston Globe. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.Jennifer Egan, who earned the NBCC Fiction Award for her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, has a new novel out this month. Her work has appeared previously in Diode as well as in Southern Review, New England Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Her sixth book of poems, Dots & Dashes, won the Crab Orchard Review Series Open Competition Award and will be published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2017. Jehanne Dubrow is the author of five poetry collections, including most recently The Arranged Marriage, Red Army Red, and Stateside. The same bursting forth of two instincts at once: the instinct to join with others inĪn unusually cohesive group, and the instinct to destroy a target.įield Notes on the Muted Brilliance of the Female It should instead be recognized as the same thing, Mobbing among birds and mammals should not be seen as a metaphor for what