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January Books from NER Authors

January 18, 2016

Screen Shot 2015-11-10 at 10.04.02 AMYou’ll want to re-read the final chapters more than once, delighted anew each time by how well Cantor speaks our language. —Kirkus Review

We congratulate NER contributor Rachel Cantor on the release of her second novel Good on Paper (Melville House, 2016). Her work appeared in NER 20.4, 23.3, 24.4, and 29.4. 

Jim Crace, IMPAC award winning author of Harvest, says of Good on Paper: “It is a vivacious, potent blend of the touching and the erudite, the garrulous and the thoughtful, the playful and the tender.”

Cantor is also the author of A Highly Unlikely Scenario (Melville Books, 2014). Her fiction has appeared in Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Fence, One Story, and other publications. Her work has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes and shortlisted for both the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories.

Good on Paper is available from Melville Books and independent booksellers.

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Screen Shot 2015-11-10 at 10.30.37 AMQuiet and languorous, sweeping steadily and inexorably along like a curtain of drifting snow identified too late as an avalanche. —Publishers Weekly

The chilling Travelers Rest (Little, Brown, 2016) is NER contributor Keith Lee Morris‘s third novel. His fiction appeared in NER 23.1, 23.4, 24.4, 26.2 and 28.4.

Kirkus Review wrote of Travelers Rest: “The novel gradually proves itself weighty, suspenseful, and even wistful.”

Morris is also the author of The Greyhound God (University of Nevada Press, 2003) and The Dart King (Tin House Books, 2008), as well as two collections of short stories. He is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Clemson University.

Travelers Rest is available from Powell’s Books and other independent booksellers.

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51Ik1tOr31L._SX351_BO1,204,203,200_NER is pleased to announce that Oleg Kashin‘s Fardwor, Russia! A Fantastical Tale of Life Under Putin, translated into English by Will Evans, is now available from Restless Books. Excerpts from this political satire appeared in NER 34.3-4.

Oleg Kashin is a Russian journalist and political activist who gained notoriety in November 2010 when he was beaten nearly to death by unknown assailants, in an attack likely politically motivated by his reporting. It came two months after he had delivered the manuscript of his satirical Fardwar, Russia!, which takes on the absurdity and corruption at the heart of Russian political life in the Putin era. The attack has prompted protests and international media coverage but, with cruel irony, the corruption Kashin skewered has been proven by the refusal of the authorities to bring his attackers to justice.

Get your copy from Restless Books or your independent bookseller.

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Congratulations to Katrina Roberts on her new anthology, Because You Asked, which includes insights on the writing life from dozens of writers, among them NER contributors Kazim Ali, Jericho Brown, Paisley Rekdal, Brenda Shaughnessy, and Oliver de la Paz.

From the publisher: Katrina Roberts’s Because You Asked is an anthology that brings together anecdotes, approaches, aspirations, confessions, warnings, challenges, passions, foibles, secrets, prompts, craft notes, manifestos—that is, perspectives from writers, their insights and revelations shared often during “Q & A sessions” with young—or simply young-at-heart—writers and readers.

Katrina Roberts has published four books of poems: Underdog, Friendly Fire, The Quick, and How Late Desire Looks. She is the Mina Schwabacher Professor in English and the Humanities at Whitman College, where she directs the Visiting Writers Reading Series.

Her work appeared in NER 36.2 and 25.3. Because You Asked is available at Lost Horse Press and other booksellers.

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Bohince.SWALLOWS-AND-WAVESPaula Bohince’s empathic lyrics based on Japanese scroll paintings and wood prints demonstrate “how attention and technique coalesce / into art.” —Edward Hirsch

Congratulations to Paula Bohince on the publication of her new poetry collection, Swallows and Waves. Bohince’s work has appeared previously in NER volume 31.4.

From the publisher: Paula Bohince draws from a palette of Japanese scroll paintings and woodblock prints created centuries ago. Looking deeply into images of birds, animals, flowers, mothers, soldiers, and lovers, she returns with poems that risk everything in their transformation, reflecting loneliness and eros, doubt and reassurance.

Swallows and Waves is is Bohince’s third collection and is available through Sarabande Books and other bookstores. Her earlier publications, Children and Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods, are available through Powell’s.

 

 

 

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New Books from NER Authors

August 13, 2012

Paula Bohince

The Children

“Another writer with Paula Bohince’s gift for the ravishing image—and such writers are very few—would have us on our guard. We are wary of beauty; we have seen too often what beauty leaves out. But Bohince, in her magical capture of the material world, scorns all euphemizing edits; ‘the condom listing against milk-/weed’ is registered as scrupulously in these pages as are the combs of the abandoned hive. Which makes these poems transformative in the true and difficult sense: they bestow on the world the blessing of having-been-seen. And beauty too: ‘Something to recall / as beautiful, in the future. As the sewer was / in summer. Little childhood river.'” (Linda Gregerson)

 

Gordon Bowker

James Joyce: A New Biography

“It is a great boon that British biographer Gordon Bowker, who has written lives of Malcolm Lowry, George Orwell and Lawrence Durrell, should have taken on this task, and better yet that he has produced such a fine portrait of the artist and the man who was James Joyce . . . Instead of being daunted by Joyce having in a sense got there before him, Bowker makes this a strength, as he skillfully presents incidents and experiences both as they happened in life and, suitably transformed to varying degrees, on the page . . . the reader has the best of both worlds, being informed—or in the case of those already familiar with the books, reminded—both of the glories of Joycean fiction and of their roots in his life. Never reductive, genuinely attuned to both Joyce’s fictive methodology and his human qualities, Bowker manages to be immensely sympathetic to his subject while managing to preserve necessary critical distance and acuity.” (Martin Rubin, San Francisco Chronicle)

 

Michael Collier

An Individual History

“Collier’s sixth collection engages with childhood, fatherhood, and family life, in the living present and memorial past, a history explored with brilliantly precise detail and originality of perspective.” (Publishers Weekly)

 

Eduardo C. Corral

Slow Lightning

“[W]e can make of what would blind us a conduit for changed vision, suggests Corral. In these poems, a cage implies all the rest that lies outside it; any frame frames a window through which to see other possibilities unfolding… Like Hayden, Corral resists reductivism.  Gay, Chicano, ‘Illegal-American,’ that’s all just language, and part of Corral’s point is that language, like sex, is fluid and dangerous and thrilling, now a cage, now a window out.  In Corral’s refusal to think in reductive terms lies his great authority.  His refusal to entirely trust authority wins my trust as a reader.” (Carl Phillips, from the Foreword)

 

Norman Lock

Escher’s Journal

“Lock’s work seems to emanate…from an essential strangeness, an estrangement from easily agreed-upon psychologies, from popular culture, from anything resembling a zeitgeist. It is marked by an eerie tonality and an intense, unsettled intellectual curiosity—a Lock novel might take place during any time period, anywhere in the world.” (Dawn Raffel)

 

Padgett Powell

You & Me

“Wonderful…You & Me is by turns hilarious, depressing, gnomic, smutty, and just a far better Saturday night than anything to be had in Jacksonville and Baskersfield combined.” (BookForum)

“…swaggering genius and ribald wit.” (Vanity Fair)

 

Gregory Spatz

Inukshuk

“Inukshuk is a feat of empathy and honesty, a taut tale of fear and resentment and other threats from within, meticulously observed and fearlessly rendered in vivid, authoritative, gripping prose. It’s a virtuoso performance.” (Doug Dorst)

 

 

Craig Morgan Teicher

To Keep Love Blurry 

“A liberating push-back against the idea of economy. More play, more improvisation, and more defiantly deadpan humor – this is the vital shot-in-the-arm American poetry needs.” (D. A. Powell)

 

 

Matthew Thorburn

Every Possible Blue

“If Fred Astaire could write, it might sound like this: practiced, complex, graceful…These are a sequence of anecdotes daring to love again, dreaming in daylight.” (Grace Cavalieri)

Filed Under: NER Authors' Books, NER Community Tagged With: Craig Morgan Teicher, Eduardo C. Corral, Gregory Spatz, Matthew Thorburn, Michael Collier, Norman Lock, Padgett Powell, Paula Bohince


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