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New Books by NER Authors

November 2022

Get those wishlists ready! Six new books by NER authors have recently released, including a collection of short stories, two memoirs, and an essay collection. Browse our Bookshop.org page to support these and other NER authors.

Wendell Berry’s How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership is out now from Counterpoint. Berry, a 2010 recipient of the National Humanities Medal, returns to his elegant world-building to capture life in fictional Port William, Kentucky between 1931 and 2021. Berry’s work appeared in the 1979 summer issue of NER.

New Directions recently published Ottilie Mulzet’s translation of László Krasznahorkai’s A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East, which was hailed as “a vision of painstaking beauty” by NPR. Mulzet won the 2019 National Book Award for her translation of Krasznahorkai’s Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming, and translated the NER Digital piece “My Gate” by Gábor Schein.

Out now from Yale University Press is Carl Phillips’s My Trade is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life of Writing. Phillips is the recipient of several awards, including a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has appeared in multiple volumes of NER, most recently issue 42.2.

Mary-Alice Daniel’s coming-of-age memoir, A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents, releases from Harper Collins at the end of the month. In a starred review, Publisher’s Weekly described the book as “an incandescent debut . . . a gem.” Daniel’s poem, “A Southern Way of Talking About Love,” was published in NER 33.4. 

Charles Holdefer’s latest novel, Don’t Look Back at Me, is now on shelves courtesy of Sagging Meniscus Press. Don’t Look Back at Me chronicles a college student’s discovery of Emily Dickinson’s correspondence with a secret lover, and explores the power of poetry to shape our lives. Holdefer’s work has appeared in several volumes of NER, most recently 37.1.

Robert Cohen’s new essay collection, Going to the Tigers, is available now from University of Michigan Press. A Professor of English at Middlebury College, Cohen’s distinctions include a Pushcart Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Whiting Writers Award. Cohen’s essay on Stanley Elkin, which appears in Going to the Tigers, was first published in NER 27.4. 

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New Books by NER Authors

October 2022

Itching to add to your fall reading list? Look no further! This October, NER authors gave us multiple collections of poetry, a wrought memoir, irreverent fiction, and a timely reissue of a dystopian novel. Support these and other NER authors by shopping our Bookshop.org page.

Su Cho’s debut poetry collection, The Symmetry of Fish, is out now from Penguin Random House. The Symmetry of Fish won the 2021 National Poetry Series, selected by Paige Lewis. Cho’s poems “How to Say Water” and “Abecedarian for ESL in West Lafayette, Indiana,” were published in NER 41.1.

From Tin House Books comes Ethan Chatagnier’s debut novel, Singer Distance. In a starred review, Publisher’s Weekly praised the novel as “Soaring . . . Readers are in for a memorable adventure.” Chatagnier’s Pushcart Prize-winning story “Miracle Fruit” appeared in NER 37.4.

We Are Mermaids, Stephanie Burt’s latest poetry collection, was released by Graywolf at the start of the month. Throughout the pop-culture-filled collection, “Burt’s imagination is rendered in mellifluous, energetic language” (Publisher’s Weekly). Burt is a professor of English at Harvard University. Her essay “Skating with Delmore” appeared in NER 41.2.

Poet Emma Bolden’s debut memoir, The Tiger and the Cage, is out now from Soft Skull Press. This deeply personal work recounts Bolden’s lifelong struggle with chronic pain and endometriosis. Bolden’s poem “Confiteor” appeared in NER 41.2.

Longtime NER contributor Christine Sneed just published her latest novel, Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos, with 7.13 Books. Winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, Sneed’s new novel is a “bright, irreverent send-up of corporate America in the 21st century” (7.13 Books). Sneed’s work has appeared in several issues of NER, most recently 43.2.

Edited by Christine Sneed, Love in the Time of Time’s Up: A Short Fiction Anthology was published by Tortoise Books in early October. Booklist calls the collection “complex and hotly contemporary . . . reads like a time capsule, sure to help readers make sense of the cultural moment.” Sneed’s writing most recently appeared in NER 43.2.

Hot off the press from Wandering Aengus Press comes a reissue of Lucy Ferriss’ The Misconceiver. In The Misconceiver, “Ferriss worthily acknowledges the complexities of the abortion debate, and her dystopia . . . is thoroughly imagined” (Kirkus Review). Ferriss’ essay, “Meditation on Middle G” appeared in NER 42.1.

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New Books by NER Authors

September 2022 (Part Two)

Here are five more new releases from NER authors to add to your fall reading list. Be sure to shop these and other contributor titles on our Bookshop page.

Tawanda Mulalu’s debut poetry collection, Please Make Me Pretty I Don’t Want to Die, is hot off the press from Princeton University Press. Mulalu’s poems “Song,” “Connecticut,” and “My Brother Does Not Return for My Mother’s Fiftieth” appeared in our most recent emerging writers issue, NER 42.4. 

New York Times poetry columnist Elisa Gabbert’s third poetry collection, Normal Distance, is out now from Soft Skull. Gabbert’s work has been praised as possessing a “questing, restless intelligence” (Kirkus Reviews). Her poems “Historians of the Future” and “Bright & Distant Objects” appeared in NER 41.3.

Wo Chan’s debut poetry collection, Togetherness, was released by Nightboat Books earlier this fall. In a starred review, Publisher’s Weekly praised the collection as a “vivid and surprising work . . . Daring and original, Chan’s poetry collapses categories to create inspired art.” Their poem “Years Flow by Like Water” appeared in NER 43.1.

Robert and Elizabeth Chandler’s translation of Vasily Grossman’s The People Immortal is out now from The New York Review of Books. Robert Chandler is a two-time recipient of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages translation prize. Several of Robert and Elizabeth Chandler’s Russian translations appeared in NER 34.3-4.

Whiting Award winner Morgan Meis’s The Fate of the Animals—the second volume in his Three Paintings Trilogy—has just been released by Slant Books. An exploration of Franz Marc’s 1913 masterpiece of the same name, Meis references Norse mythology, Degas, Nietzsche, and others to study the painting in depth. Meis’s essay “Two Letters About Two Viewings of To the Wonder” appeared in NER 39.2.

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New Books by NER Authors

September 2022

Need some inspiration for your fall reading list? NER has you covered! Part 1 of our September roundup includes new work by a Pulitzer Prize winner, a lyric memoir, acclaimed novels, and more. Shop these new titles on our Bookshop.org page, and look out for part 2.

Stacey D’Erasmo’s fifth novel, The Complicities, is out now from Algonquin. The Complicities has received praise for incorporating “smooth shifts in perspective and understated and precise prose” (Publishers Weekly). D’Erasmo’s essay “Influence: A Practice in Three Wanders,” appeared in NER 31.4.

Out now from Archipelago is Scholastique Mukasonga’s Kibogo. Publishers Weekly called the novel “Complex and revelatory
. . . Mukasonga complicates the blurry line between history and myth and critiques its relationship to colonialism.” Mukasonga’s short fiction appeared in NER 39.1 and 41.3.

Salvadoran poet Javier Zamora’s Solito: A Memoir is hot off the press from Hogarth. The New York Times Book Review praised the moving collection, noting “Zamora writes like someone who cannot afford to forget.” Zamora’s poem “Exiliados” appeared in NER 38.1. 

From Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham comes the poetry collection [To] the Last [Be] Human. Published by Copper Canyon Press, [To] the Last [Be] Human brings together four books of poems: Sea Change, Place, Fast, and Runaway. Graham’s work has appeared in multiple issues of NER, including volumes 1.4 and 15.1.

Aldo Amparán’s debut poetry collection, Brother Sleep, is out now from Alice James. This haunting, long-awaited collection was selected as the winner of the 2020 Alice James Award. Amparán’s poems “The House Has Teeth” and “A History” appeared in NER 42.3.

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