New Books by NER Authors

September 26, 2016

“This is a gripping, timely, and important examination of American racism, and Phillips tells it with rare clarity and power.” — Publishers Weekly (starred)

From W. W. Norton: Blood at the Root is a sweeping American tale that spans the Cherokee removals of the 1830s, the hope and promise of Reconstruction, and the crushing injustice of Forsyth County, Georgia’s racial cleansing. With bold storytelling and lyrical prose, Phillips breaks a century-long silence and uncovers a history of racial terrorism that continues to shape America in the twenty-first century.

Patrick Phillips, longtime NER poet and translator, appeared most recently in NER 33.2. He is an award-winning poet, translator, and professor, and a Guggenheim and NEA Fellow. His most recent book, Elegy for a Broken Machine, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Blood at the Root can be purchased through W.W. Norton and independent booksellers.

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“Anne Raeff’s exquisite stories are remarkable for their combination of intimacy and reverence for the mysteries and private griefs her characters fold their lives around . . . The Jungle around Us is a haunting and breathtakingly beautiful book.” —Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You

From the publisher: While struggling with fear, danger, and displacement, the characters of The Jungle around Us form strange and powerful bonds in distant and unlikely places. A family that has escaped Vienna ends up on the edge of the Amazon, where the parents fight yellow fever and the daughter falls in love with a village boy. Two sisters learn lessons about race and war during the Columbia University riots of 1968. A young girl confronts death when her former babysitter is mysteriously murdered. Raeff’s stories are about embracing the world though the world contains everything we fear.

Anne Raeff is a high school teacher at East Palo Alto Academy, where she teaches English and history. Her stories and essays have appeared in ZYZZYVA and Guernica, among others. Her first novel is Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia. Her collection The Jungle Around Us is the winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in NER, most recently in 37.2. The Jungle Around Us can be purchased from University of Georgia Press and independent booksellers.

New Translations by NER Writers: When We Leave Each Other

April 22, 2013

Henrik Nordbrandt’s When We Leave Each Other has been translated by NER contributor Patrick Phillips. From the publisher: “Although most of his life has been spent abroad in countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, Henrik Nordbrandt has simultaneously and undeniably emerged, next to Inger Christensen, as one of Denmark’s very best contemporary poets. If it was Paul Celan who first claimed that poetry was ‘a message in a bottle, sent out in the—not always greatly hopeful—belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps,’ it is nevertheless Nordbrandt’s unusually intimate poems that enact this unforgettably, as well as his persistent subjects: the joys and strangeness of travel, the tragicomic absurdity of our attempts to make sense of the world, and above all, the sweetness and ache of human love. Highlighting his entire career, the poems in When We Leave Each Other include a generous selection of recent and never-before-translated work into English that is certain to establish Nordbrandt as an essential contemporary lyric poet for American readers.”

Translator Patrick Phillips contributed to New England Review most recently in issues 33.2 and 32.2.

When We Leave Each Other is available at Open Letter Books and other book sellers.

Potomac Theatre Project Tribute Event for NER

July 9, 2012

Potomac Theatre Project will host a tribute event for New England Review in New York City on July 16, 2012, 7:30 p.m., at the Atlantic Stage 2 (330 West 16th Street, between 8th & 9th Avenues). This evening features readings from five outstanding NER and Middlebury alumni authors—David Gilbert ’90, Cate Marvin, Emily Mitchell ’97, Greg Pierce, and Patrick Phillips—with a reception to follow.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Tickets are currently sold out but seats may be available on a first-come first-served basis the night of the event. Because seating was limited, we issued tickets for this event via Ticket Central.

David Gilbert has had his short stories published in the New Yorker, Harper’s, GQ, Bomb, and other magazines. His short story collection, Remote Feed, was published by Scribner in 1998, and his novel, The Normals, was published by Bloomsbury in 2004. His new novel, & Sons, will be published by Random House in May 2013. His screenplay for Joshua was made into a film starring Sam Rockwell and Vera Farmiga, which Fox Searchlight released in 2007. Various other movie projects are in existential stages of being and non-being. David lives in New York City with his wife and three children.

Cate Marvin is the author of two poetry collections, World’s Tallest Disaster (2001) and Fragment of the Head of a Queen (2007), both published by Sarabande. Her third book of poems is forthcoming from Norton in 2013. Her poems have recently appeared in New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Tin House. She teaches creative writing at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, and in the low-residency M.F.A. program at Lesley University.

Emily Mitchell‘s first novel, The Last Summer of the World (Norton) was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. Her stories have appeared in New England Review, Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly, and is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review. Her reviews have been published in the New York Times and the New Statesman. She received her BA from Middlebury College and her MFA from Brooklyn College. She recently joined the creative writing faculty at The University of Maryland.

Greg Pierce‘s plays include Slowgirl (Lincoln Center Theater), The Landing, written with composer John Kander (Vineyard Theatre), and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, written with director Stephen Earnhart, based on the novel by Haruki Murakami (Ohio Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival, Singapore Arts Festival). His stories have appeared in Avery, Berkeley Fiction Review, Confrontation, New England Review, and Web Conjunctions. He has received fellowships from the Edward F. Albee Foundation, The Djerassi Institute, the New York Public Library, and the Baryshnikov Arts Center.

Patrick Phillips is a long-time contributor to New England Review and a recent Guggenheim and NEA Fellow. He is author of the poetry collections Chattahoochee, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize, and Boy, and translator of When We Leave Each Other: Selected Poems of Henrik Nordbrandt. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Drew University.

NER poets at From the Fishhouse

May 14, 2012

From the Fishouse, a site for audio recordings of poetry, features recordings of several poems originally published in NER, including Monica Ferrell’s “The Fire of Despair” (23.3), Patrick Phillips’s “What Happens” (27.3), and Robin Ekiss’s “Contemplating Quiet” (NER 29.2):

To contemplate quiet,
start with the first marriage
of sound and image:

seventeen seconds of film
in which two men are dancing
to the wheedling strains of a violin.

[“Contemplating Quiet” audio] [“The Fire of Despair” audio] [“What Happens” audio]