NER nonfiction editor J. M. Tyree speaks with NER 37.3 author Joseph Pearson on Pearson’s essay “Three German Cities,” and the links between the “I,” history, and politics. J. M. Tyree: “Three German Cities” beautifully blends your personal writing with your observations on cultural history as you travel through Hamburg, Munich, and Berlin, where you live now. In […]
Year: 2016
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Behind the Byline
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Behind the Byline
NER Editor Carolyn Kuebler asks Maja Zade, whose translation of Marius von Mayenberg’s play Moving Target appeared in NER 37.3, about her roles as a dramaturg and German translator, and the unique crossroads of the two as “translating for performance rather than just words to be read.” CK: This play really struck me for […]
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Behind the Byline
NER fiction editor Janice Obuchowski caught up with author Tamas Dobozy to talk about his story “Steyr Mannlicher” from the current issue of NER (37.3). JO: This story is a wonderful take on contemporary noir. Is this familiar territory for you as a writer—working with these themes of violence and detective work—or was this story […]
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NER poetry editor Rick Barot speaks with author David Mura about his poem “A Late Elegy For Jimmy,” which was recently published in NER 37.3. Mura reflects on our responsibilities, embedded in the tensity of American experiences of race, as white and non-white writers and readers. “This is what I love about being a […]
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Jeneva Burroughs Stone
Disability & Space-Time Considerations: On reading Gary Zukov’s The Dancing Wu Li Masters Of quantum physics, Einstein remarked, God does not play dice, by which he meant the appearance of randomness is always an illusion. Scientific analysis must yield law, rules, properties. Other physicists disagree in an ongoing theoretical contest pitting Einstein’s classical determinism against […]
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Behind the Byline
Poet Brian Teare, whose poem “After a Long Illness” appears in NER 37.2, speaks with NER poetry editor Rick Barot about place (“For many years now, I’ve felt that where I am is who I am”), inspiration, and a time when AIDS and illness were “among the most urgent and important themes in our national literature.” RB: Can you say […]
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NER Digital
Autumn Again It is autumn across the country. The aspen leaves in Colorado are yellowing and browning, the maple leaves in Vermont going red, purple, orange on their way to the forest floor. Days are pinched, nights long and longer. Here is a killing frost, a pane of puddle-ice. Here is the crock-pot, the chipped […]
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Eric Severn
Author Eric Severn spoke with NER Editorial Panel member Rose Whitmore about “A Partial Inventory of Things That Didn’t Work” (NER 37.2). Severn’s oh-so honest essay inspired their conversation about the processes of writing, struggling, and living, and the ultimate goal of getting better at failing. RW: “A Partial Inventory of Things That Didn’t Work” has a unique structure. It […]
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Kate Petersen
Kate Petersen, author of the story “After, Before,” speaks with NER nonfiction editor J.M. Tyree about the “modes of the times in which we are living, an envelope of upsetting news convey[ed] through a digital media muddle.” Timing is everything. Read on. JMT: “After, Before” is a story of great observational intelligence about the ambient moods […]
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Ian Ganassi
Ian Ganassi’s new translation of the Aeneid, Book 7, appears in the current issue of NER (37.2), and editor Carolyn Kuebler caught up with him recently to talk about his project of translating the great Latin epic. Ian’s translations of books 1–6 of the Aeneid have appeared previously in NER, and his poems have appeared […]
