NBCC board member John McWhorter spoke about his most recent book, “Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America’s Lingua Franca,” which examines Black English (or African American Vernacular English, AAVE) in America, on Talks at Google. Robert Allen Papinchak reviewed Ali Smith's “Winter,” for the National Review. Hamilton Cain reviewed Neel Mukherjee's novel, “A State of Freedom,” for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Jim Schley reviewed Robin MacArthur's book, “Heart Spring Mountain,” for Seven Days, a regional weekly in Vermont. Joan Silverman reviews “Why You Eat What You Eat,” by Rachel Herz for the Portland Press-Herald. Michael Magras reviewed “The Immortalists” by Chloe Benjamin for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Michael Gessner reviewed Wendy Burk's “Tree Talks: Southern Arizona,” for The Kenyon Review. Lanie Tankard reviewed Croatian author Dasa Drndic's novel “Belladonna” for The Woven Tale Press. NBCC Emerging Critic Zack Graham reviewed “The Maze at Windermere” by Gregory Blake Smith for Newsday.ĭenise Low reviews Stanley Lombardo’s translation “Sappho: Complete Poems and Fragments” for the new issue of New Letters. Hertzel also reviewed Rachel Joyce's new novel, “The Music Shop,” and wrote her weekly column on “The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning.“ NBCC board member Laurie Hertzel profiled writer Lesley Nneka Arimah for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which named Arimah Minnesota's Artist of the Year. NBCC VP/Online Jane Ciabattari joins NBCC president Kate Tuttle, NBCC board members Laurie Hertzel and Kerri Arsenault, and former NBCC presidents John Freeman and Tom Beer, in Lit Hub's new “Secrets of the Book Critic”s series.

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