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New Books by NER Authors

June 7, 2016

Chandler CoverThis collection of vignettes about life as a refugee is by turns hilarious, beautiful, and heartbreaking, and strikingly holds up despite being a century old —Publishers Weekly

A warm congratulations to NER contributors Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, whose translation of Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea (NYRB Classics), marks the first time Teffi’s memoir has been published in English. It tells the story of the Russian writer’s 1918 journey through Ukraine as she fled the Bolsheviks.

The Chandlers’ other translations include Alexander Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter (Vintage Classics, 2012), and works by Vasily Grossman (NYRB Classics). Robert Chandler has edited and served as primary translator for Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida and Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov, and co-edited The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry. The Chandlers’ translation of Teffi’s “Lifeless Beast” appeared in NER 34.3-4.

Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea is available from New York Review Books and other booksellers.

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Best of Teffi[Teffi] can write in more registers than you might think, and is capable of being heart-breaking as well as very funny . . . I can’t recommend her strongly enough —Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian

Another Teffi translation by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi, is also now available from New York Review Books and other booksellers.

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Magruder CoverMagruder’s language is so precise, so beautifully crafted and bitingly funny, that I laughed throughout and then nearly cried when Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall ended —Lori Ostlund, author of After the Parade

In James Magruder’s newest novel, Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall, the ghost of Helen Hadley chronicles the experiences of the residents of her dormitory for Yale graduate students and their entanglements with love, betrayal, and attachment.

Magruder’s debut novel, Sugarless (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009), was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. He has also published the short story collection Let Me See It (Northwestern University Press, 2014). Magruder also writes and translates for the stage. His short story “Matthew Aiken’s Vie Bohème” appeared in NER 32.3.

Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall is available from Queen’s Ferry Press and independent booksellers.

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A Perfect Life CoverA Perfect Life probes how we live in the face of uncertainty and the ways risk can both disable and empower us. In her latest novel, Eileen Pollack has crafted a tender exploration of family love that is as smart and thought-provoking as it is moving—Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You

Congratulations to Eileen Pollack on the publication of her third novel, A Perfect Life. The novel follows Jane Weiss, a researcher at MIT trying to solve a genetic mystery that may threaten her life.

From Publishers Weekly: When [Jane is] surprised by love—and certain discoveries in the lab—she must grapple with what it means to live and love fully in the face of risk and loss.

Pollack’s previously published novels are Paradise, New York (Temple University Press, 2000) and Breaking and Entering (Four Way, 2012). She has also published two collections of short stories—In the Mouth (Four Way, 2008), and The Rabbi in the Attic (Delphinium Books, 2012)—as well as several nonfiction works. Her writing has appeared in NER 14.1, 16.4, 31.2, and 32.4.

A Perfect Life is available from Ecco and independent booksellers.

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The Clouds CoverOne of the best writers of today in any language —Ricardo Piglia author of The Absent City

An English translation of Juan José Saer’s novel The Clouds is now available.

Juan José Saer was a leading Argentinian author of stories and novels, and received Spain’s prestigious Nadal Prize in 1987 for his novel The Event.  Saer’s novel excerpt “Thursdays at La Giralda” appeared in NER 35.1.

The Clouds is available from Open Letter Books and other independent booksellers.

 

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Shaughnessy’s particular genius . . . is utterly poetic, but essayistic in scope.—The New Yorker

Congratulations to NER poet Brenda Shaughnessy on her fourth book of poetry, So Much Synth. This collection addresses adolescent girlhood, and is what Publishers Weekly calls “simmering in the obsessive nature of regrets and paths not taken.”

Shaughnessy’s poem, “A Mix Tape: The Hit Singularities,” appeared in NER 36.4. Her work has also appeared in Harper’s, the New Yorker, Paris Review, and more, and she was recognized as a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 2013.

So Much Synth is available from her publisher, Copper Canyon Press and from independent booksellers.

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The poet’s wide-aloud love song to New York’s most boisterous borough is a deftly-crafted tour-de-force, a sleek melding of lyric and unflinching light. —Patricia Smith, author of Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah and four-time National Slam Champion

A love song indeed, Patrick Rosal’s fourth book Brooklyn Antediluvian serves as a both an ode to music and dance and also an examination of race in America. Rosal’s poetry appeared in NER 35.4 and his poems and essays have been featured in many other journals and anthologies.

This collection, which Publishers Weekly calls “an earth-shattering performance,” is not to be missed. Brooklyn Antediluvian can be purchased at Indiebound.org.

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Life this deeply observed—and felt—will always astound. —Mary Ruefle, author of Trances of the Blast

We are excited to congratulate NER contributor Ted Gilley on his first book of poetry, Come to Me. His short story “Bliss” appeared in NER 29.3 and his poems and fiction have appeared in many journals and publications.

Author Stephen Sandy says that this new collection, “delivers poems that resonate with the fears and joys of growing up. They are poems of recognition and acceptance, of love soberly considered and expressed.” This collection is available on Amazon and is not to be missed.

 

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Calling out from the rural horse pastures and the blackness of the mind’s night, The Body Double is, at once, a tribute to the world’s roughness and bowing down to its mysterious power.—Award-winning poet Ada Limon

Warmest congratulations to Lisa Lewis on her newest poetry collection The Body Double. Lewis’s poem “Dry Hollows” appeared in the recent NER 36.4 and can be read online here. Her work as also appeared in Carolina Quarterly, Guernica, Sugar House Review, American Literary Review, and elsewhere.

Lewis’s fifth book features poems which Ada Limon calls both “unflinching and precise . . . both piercing and generous.” This stunning new work can be purchased on Amazon.

 

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41U0mnDMz7LOne of those writers whose style insinuates itself into your consciousness . . . you find your thoughts echoing its rhythms.—Philadelphia Enquirer

Congratulations to Gerald Stern on the publication of Divine Nothingness, a new collection of poems. Stern won the National Book Award for This Time (W.W. Norton, 1999), and in this collection he sets out to explore the nature of existence in the face of mortality.

Stern’s work has appeared in NER 9.1, 15.1, 15.2, and 30.3.

Divine Nothingness is available in paperback from W.W. Norton and other booksellers.

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questions-in-the-vestibuleRachel Hadas makes isolated moments huge with meaning–scintillating or sad . . . She is endlessly observant, and often wry, about the loves and losses that hold up what she calls “a world in progress.”—J.D. McClatchy, author of Pulitzer Prize-nominated Hazmat

NER is excited to announce the publication of Rachel Hadas’s collection of poems, Questions in the Vestibule. Her work, both poetry and nonfiction, has appeared in too many volumes of NER to list, most recently in 36.1.

Questions in the Vestibule is available from Northwestern University Press and independent booksellers.

Filed Under: NER Authors' Books Tagged With: Brenda Shaughnessy, Gerald Stern, James Magruder, Juan José Saer, Lisa Lewis, Patrick Rosal, Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, Ted Gilley, Teffi

New Books From NER Authors

November 11, 2015

Lori Ostlund’s wonderful novel After the Parade should come with a set of instructions: Be perfectly still. Listen carefully. Peer beneath every placid surface. Be alive to the possibility of wonder.  —Richard Russo, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Empire Falls.

New England Review congratulates Lori Ostlund on the publication of her debut novel, After the Parade (Scribner). Ostlund’s stories “The Children Beneath the Seat” and “Domestic Interiors of the Midwest: Two Stories” were published in NER 27.1 and 30.3.

“Written over the course of 15 years, Ostlund’s debut novel follows a broken and empty man who embarks on a six-month journey to make sense of his past, in hopes of comfortably inhabiting his present.” —Publishers Weekly 

Ostlund’s collection, The Bigness of the World, was the recipient of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the California Book Award for First Fiction, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award. Her stories have appeared in many literary publications including Best American Short Stories, O Henry Prize Stories, New England Review, Southern Review, and Kenyon Review. She has been a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference fellow, and currently lives in San Francisco.

After the Parade is available from Powell’s Books and other independent booksellers.

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The most striking element of Saer’s writing is his prose, at once dynamic and poetic … It is brilliant. —Harvard Review

41rgVmsHZaL._SX321_BO1,204,203,200_New England Review congratulates Juan José Saer on the publication of The One Before (Open Letter Books). Saer’s novel excerpt “Thursdays at La Giralda” appeared in  NER 35.1.

From the publisher: “From the story of the two characters who decide to bury a message in a bottle that simply says “MESSAGE,” to Pigeon Garay’s attempt to avoid the rising tides and escape Argentina for Europe, The One Before evocatively introduces readers to Saer’s world and gives the already indoctrinated new material about their favorite characters.”

Juan José Saer is a leading Argentinian author of stories and novels, and received Spain’s competitive Nadal Prize in 1987 for his novel The Event.

The One Before is available from Open Letter Books and other independent booksellers.

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A brilliant demonstration that less can be more and that readers can find entire worlds in a page or two.—Alan Cheuse, author of Prayers for the Living

Congratulations to Robert Shapard, Christopher Merrill, and James Thomas on theUnknown publication of their very-short-stories collection, Flash Fiction International (W. W. Norton). NER has published Shapard’s short story “The Old Bathysphere Film” (NER 12.4), as well as  Christopher Merrill’s review, “Reclaiming the Frontier: New Writings from the West” (NER 12.2).

From the publisher: “What is a flash fiction called in other countries? In Latin America it is a micro, in Denmark kortprosa, in Bulgaria mikro razkaz. These short shorts, usually no more than 750 words, range from linear narratives to the more unusual: stories based on mathematical forms, a paragraph-length novel, a scientific report on volcanic fireflies that proliferate in nightclubs. Flash has always—and everywhere—been a form of experiment, of possibility.”

Robert Shapard directed the University of Hawaii MFA program and now lives in Austin, Texas. Christopher Merrill directs the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Get your copy of Flash Fiction International at W.W. Norton & Company or at independent booksellers.

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The mystery of the process of expansion and the state of never having enough are expertly envisioned and tested in Teague’s powerful, relevant poems, which give us a glimpse of our past and mirror our present. —Booklist

51aiKZPdF9L._SX332_BO1,204,203,200_Alexandra Teague has released a new book of poetry, The Wise and Foolish Builders (Persea Books). Teague’s poems have appeared in both NER (29.2 and 25.1), and NER Digital—”Stone Disease” and “Safe.”

“These detail-rich poems possess both the attractions and the dangers of popular prose histories, even as they break out into lyricism that connects era to era, as when an early photographer’s “portable darknesses/fill with faces we keep hoping to/like.” —Publisher’s Weekly

Teague’s poetry is included in Best American Poetry 2009 and has been published in Missouri Review, Iowa Review, New England Review, Threepenny Review, and Southern Review. She was the 2014 winner of the Jeffrey E. Smith Missouri Review Editors’ prize and is Assistant Professor of Poetry at the University of Idaho and the editor of Broadside Press.

Purchase The Wise and Foolish Builders at Powell’s Books and other independent booksellers.

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41VZVnYLRsL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_Matthew Vollmer has a newly published book of short stories, Gateway to Paradise (Persea Books). Vollmer’s essay, “Keeper of the Flame,” appeared in NER 33.1.

From the publisher: “In these bold stories set in the mountains and small towns of the south, men and women looking for escape from dull routines and a culture of hype (whether of consumerism, sex, or religion) are led to places of danger and self-reckoning. A dentist on a tryst is seduced by and impregnates an impetuous ghost. A beleaguered young writing professor follows his imagination one step too far while escorting a famous writer he finds darkly alluring . . . Gateway to Paradise surpasses the promise of Vollmer’s first collection.”

Vollmer is the author of Future Missionaries of America, a collection of stories, as well as Inscriptions for Headstones, a collection of essays. He is the editor of A Book of Uncommon Prayer, and with David Shields is co-editor of Fakes; An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts. His work has appeared in, among others, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, Epoch, Best American Essays, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and New England Review. He directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Virginia Tech.

Gateway to Paradise is available from Powell’s Books and from other independent booksellers.

Filed Under: NER Authors' Books Tagged With: After the Parade, Alexandra Teague, Christopher Merrill, Flash Fiction International, Gateway to Paradise, James Thomas, Juan José Saer, Lori Ostlund, Matthew Vollmer, Robert Shapard, The One Before, The Wise and Foolish Builders


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