It’s a love story and a study of seismic social change. Sehgal: “a rags-to-riches story that works on a head-splitting number of levels. “Complex puzzles in a Zen-like tale”: NBCC board member David Ulin on Ruth Ozeki's a Tale for the Time Being.įor NPR Books, Heller McAlpin reviews Patricia Volk's “stylish coming-of-age tale,” Shocked.įrom the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Parul Sehgal on Mohsin Hamid's new novel, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. Rebecca Donner interviews Jacob's Folly author Rebecca Miller for Bookforum. “A novel within a novel is a clever touch, but are postmodern writers abusing their readers' patience?” So asks Laura Miller in an exploration for Salon, in which she also reviews Kate Atkinson's new novel, Life After Life. Powell among the judges for the National Book Award, along with Charles Baxter, Gish Jen, Rene Steinke, Charles McGrath and others.Ĭhronogram discusses Far from the Tree, winner of the 2012 NBCC General Nonfiction Award, with author Andrew Solomon. “Kushner, it should be apparent, can write like the blazes,” says Long, and “rewards our heightened attention.” Ron Charles also reviewed the book for the Washington Post.Ģ012 NBCC Poetry Award winner D.A.
NBCC board member Karen Long reviews Rachel Kushner's second novel, The Flamethrowers, in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. In the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Harvey Freedenberg reviews James Salters' latest novel, All That Is, calling it a “mature, unsentimental story of one man’s restless search for love.” The author's 1998 collection The Bird Catcher won the NBCC award for poetry. Nonagenarian poet Marie Ponsot, wins the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement.
“A tapestry of literary activism and erudition, passion and precision, action with words.” So writes the El Paso Times about Red-Inked Retablos, the latest book from NBCC board member Rigoberto Gonzalez.Ĭarmela Ciuraru reviews Andrea Pitzer's The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov in USA Today.
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