NBCC members note: Your reviews seed this roundup please send items, including news about your new publications and recent With reviews, please include title of book and author, as well as name of publication. NBCC Balakian award winner (and former board member) Parul Sehgal describes her new role as NYTimes book critic. Shenandoah awarded Philip Belcher the Carter Prize for the Essay for “Beyond Autobiography: Claudia Emerson through Three Poems on Race” in Vol. The focus is jazz, but the book also includes opera, brass band, funk, zydeco, and much else. Based on dozens of interviews and archives, this book covers the contemporary music scene in New Orleans, a city which since the 1990s has experienced its greatest renaissance since the Louis Armstrong era. Jack Sullivan ( an NBCC member since 1978) has a new book, New Orleans Remix, from University Press of Mississippi, coming in October. 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.

Jennifer Egan, who earned the NBCC Fiction Award for her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, has a new novel out this month.