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New books by NER Authors

Summer 2022 (Part 2)

August 26, 2022

Books by NER authors continue to make waves this season! Shop these new, summer titles—and other books by our contributors—on our Bookshop.org page.

David Baker’s eleventh poetry collection, Whale Fall, is out now from W.W. Norton & Co. Environmentally focused, Whale Fall has won Baker critical acclaim as a “peerless poet of the natural world” (New York Times Book Review). Baker has appeared in several issues of NER, most recently NER 40.2, and the forthcoming 43.3.

Out now from Graywolf Press is Charles Baxter’s Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature, a wide-reaching collection of craft essays. Baxter has appeared in multiple issues of NER, and his short story “Sloth,” (NER 43.3-4) was featured as “notable” in Best American Short Stories 2015.

May-lee Chai’s short story collection, Tomorrow in Shanghai, drops this month from Blair. Investigating the cultural complexities of China, the diasporic experience, and more, Tomorrow in Shanghai complements her award-winning story collection Useful Phrases for Immigrants. Chai’s essay “Women of Nanjing,” originally published in NER 41.3, was later anthologized in Best American Essays 2021.

Hot off the press is Lauren Acampora’s “arresting” (Publisher’s Weekly) new novel, The Hundred Waters (Grove Atlantic). Acampora is the author of The Paper Wasp, which was named a “Best Summer Read” by The New York Times Book Review, USA Today, and Oprah Magazine. Her writing has appeared in NER volumes 27.3 & 40.1.

Kazim Ali’s translation of famed Mauritian writer Ananda Devi’s When the Night Agrees to Speak to Me is out this month from Phoneme Media. Ali is an accomplished translator, author, and critic, whose original essay “Shreela Ray: An Introduction” appeared in NER 41.1.

Released earlier this year from Cinnamon Press, Morning Lit: Portals After Alia is the sixth collection of poetry from Lebanese poet, writer, and critic Omar Sabbagh. Sabbagh’s poems “Letter to an Innocent in the Time of War” and “Unhomely” appeared in NER 43.2. 

Michael Martin Shea’s translation of Liliana Ponce’s Fudekara was published just this June by Cardboard House Press. Shea’s translations and original writings have appeared in numerous journals including Best New Poets, Colorado Review, and Fence. His translation of Liliana Ponce’s poetry sequence “The Somber Station” first appeared in NER 42.4.

Find more books by NER authors on our Bookshop.org page.

Filed Under: Featured, NER Authors' Books, News & Notes Tagged With: Charles Baxter, David Baker, Kazim Ali, Lauren Acampora, Liliana Ponce, May-lee Chai, Michael Martin Shea, Omar Sabbagh

Mid-Week Break

Charles Baxter Reads at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

February 7, 2018

Photo by Keri Pickett.

Charles Baxter reads a passage from his forthcoming novel The Sun Collective at the 2017 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in August 2017. His short story “Sloth” appeared in NER 34.3-4.

Baxter was born in Minneapolis and graduated from Macalester College in Saint Paul. After completing graduate work in English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he taught for several years at Wayne State University in Detroit. In 1989, he moved to the Department of English at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor and its MFA program. He now teaches at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of five novels, five short story collections, three collections of poems, two collections of essays on fiction, and is the editor of other works.

All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available online. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.

http://www.nereview.com/files/2017/11/Charles-Baxter-reading-2017.mp3

Filed Under: Audio, News & Notes Tagged With: Charles Baxter

New Books for February from NER Authors

February 2, 2015

Curtiss_smallweb-250x386“. . . an elegant chronicle of grief, of the sprawling bonds between brothers and sisters, of bodies in this world, of the power of language when so artfully arranged.” —Roxane Gay

Congratulations to poet Caleb Curtiss on the publication of his collection A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us (Black Lawrence Press, 2015). Curtiss’s work appeared in NER Volume 33.1. His poetry has also been published in a number of literary journals including the Literary Review, PANK, and Hayden’s Ferry Review. He teaches high school English in Champaign, Illinois.

 

 

crow-work2We are pleased to announce the publication of Crow-Work (Milkweed Editions, 2015), the latest collection of poetry from NER author Eric Pankey. Pankey is the author of ten collections of poems, the first of which, The New Year (Atheneum, 1984), earned him the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. His 2013 collection, Dismantling the Angel (Parlor Press, 2013), received the New Measure Prize. Pankey’s poem, “The Weight of Yesterday” appears in NER 34.1.

“Eric Pankey is a poet of precise observation and startling particularities. His wisdom, sometimes sidelong, sometimes direct, both knows and feels. The soundcraft is superb, the modes of investigation by turns lyrical, surreal, meditative, allegorical, direct-speaking, and allusive.” —Jane Hirshfield

 

NER congratulates contributor Quan Barry on the release of her fiction debut, She Weeps Each Time You’re Born (Pantheon, 2015), a novel of modern Vietnam as experienced through the eyes of a young girl born just years before the country’s unification. Barry is the author of four poetry books, including the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry winner Water Puppets, and was a PEN/Open Book finalist. She has received NEA Fellowships in both fiction and poetry, and her work has appeared in such publications as Ms. and the New Yorker. Barry’s poem, “Lion,” appeared in NER 27.2.

“. . . lyrical, luminous, and suspenseful all at once. Rabbit’s experience of wartime and reconciliation in Vietnam is one that I haven’t yet encountered in fiction, and it is rendered with shocking clarity and pathos on the page.” —Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award-winning author of Salvage the Bones

 

there's something

It is our pleasure to announce the release of contributor Charles Baxter‘s collection of ten stories, There’s Something I Want to Tell You (Pantheon, 2015). Including five stories named for virtue and five for vice, one of the selections from the compilation, “Sloth,” appeared in NER 34.3-4, and his work has also appeared in NER 27.4 and 15.1. Baxter’s third novel, The Feast of Love, was a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award. Baxter’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic, New York Review of Books, and Harper’s, among other journals and magazines. His fiction has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories seven times, eleven times in The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and translated into many languages.

An audio excerpt of Baxter reading from There’s Something I Want to Tell You at the 2014 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference is available here.

“Bare storylines can’t convey the quickly captivating simple narratives . . . or the revealing moments to which Baxter brings the reader. . . Similarly, Baxter, a published poet, at times pushes his fluid, controlled prose to headier altitudes. Nearly as organic as a novel, this is more intriguing, more fun in disclosing its connective tissues through tales that stand well on their own.” —Kirkus Reviews, *starred review*

 

Filed Under: NER Authors' Books, NER Community, News & Notes Tagged With: A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us, Caleb Curtiss, Charles Baxter, Crow-Work, Eric Pankey, Quan Barry, She Weeps Each Time You're Born, There's Something I Want to Tell You

Charles Baxter Reads at Bread Loaf

November 26, 2014

b695c060ada0e81deeecf110.L._V249535006_SL290_Charles Baxter is the author of, most recently, Gryphon: New and Selected Stories (Pantheon, 2011), and the forthcoming There’s Something I Want You to Do: a Decalogue, from which this audio is excerpted.

http://www.nereview.com/files/2014/01/charles-baxter-loyalty.mp3

Baxter’s third novel, The Feast of Love (Pantheon, 2000), was a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award and has been made into a film starring Morgan Freeman. He has also published essays on fiction collected in Burning Down the House (Graywolf Press, 2008) and The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot (Graywolf Press, 2007), and has edited several books of essays. Baxter’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic, New York Review of Books, and Harper’s, among other journals and magazines. His fiction has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories seven times, eleven times in The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and translated into many languages.

All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available on iTunesU. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.

Filed Under: Audio Tagged With: Charles Baxter, Loyalty


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