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NBCC member Dan Kois interviewed Vincenzo Barney for Slate: buff.ly/4ilbg6j

NBCC member Grant Faulkner interviewed New Yorker staff reporter Emily Witt about her latest memoir, "Health and Safety," and her foray into the intersections between drugs and art, for the Write-minded podcast: buff.ly/41kt1gm

NBCC member Cory Oldweiler reviewed Cary Groner’s "The Way" for The Minnesota Star Tribune: buff.ly/4iwyTt0

NBCC member Adam M. Lowenstein spoke with the sociologist Musa al-Gharbi, author of "We Have Never Been Woke," for Anand Giridharadas's newsletter, The Ink: buff.ly/3VpI6JE

NBCC member Elaine Szewczyk profiled Geradline Brooks for Publishers Weekly: buff.ly/3VlgipT

NBCC member Bill Thompson reviewed "A Gas: The Magnificent Elements That Expand Our World" by Mark Miodownik for the Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier: buff.ly/4fUTJjS

NBCC member Cory Oldweiler reviewed Haruki Murakami’s "The City and Its Uncertain Walls," translated by Philip Gabriel for The Minnesota Star Tribune: buff.ly/4fZZ21v

NBCC member Michael Quinn talked to The New York Times about finding holiday inspiration in Beat poet Diane di Prima’s "Dinners and Nightmares": buff.ly/3B3yZrb

NBCC member DW McKinney talked to literary agents, editors, and publishers of color about their experiences in the publishing industry for Publishers Weekly: buff.ly/3AVHRPp

NBCC member Bill Thompson reviewed "The Brothers Grimm: A Biography" by Amy Schmiesing for the Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier: buff.ly/4giIh1s

NBCC member Cory Oldweiler wrote about Omar Khalifah’s "Sand-Catcher," translated by Barbara Romaine, for The Boston Globe: buff.ly/4f8uVDH

NBCC member Rebecca Foust’s new book, "YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems," probes the parallels between America’s political landscape and George Orwell’s dystopia in "1984," asking whether love can be an effective act of resistance: buff.ly/4fRcHI8

NBCC member Kevin Anthony Brown’s "Countée Cullen's Harlem Renaissance" was reviewed by Shanta Lee in The Massachusetts Review: buff.ly/3AXbuA4

NBCC member Jason Berry reviewed Patsy McGarry's "Well, Holy God: My Life as an Irish, Catholic, Agnostic Correspondent" for the National Catholic Reporter: buff.ly/3VorGB9

NBCC member Nicholas Birns was named a Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy for the humanities: buff.ly/3OISQyN

NBCC member Tom Peebles reviewed Jane Ferguson’s "No Ordinary Assignment: A Memoir" on his personal blog: buff.ly/3ZyW26n

NBCC member Martha Anne Toll nominated and wrote about seven books for NPR's 2024 Books We Love: buff.ly/3OnU8PK

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NBCC member Paul Wilner's end of year book roundup for the Nob Hill Gazette includes books by NBCC board member Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Camille Peri, Michael Nott, Greil Marcus, Joshua Mohr, Rachel Kushner, former NBCC board member Anita Felicelli, and more: buff.ly/41baEu7