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Interview with 2019 NBCC Criticism Award Winner Saidiya Hartman
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2019 NBCC Finalist Interviews, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews, NBCC Criticism Finalist Interviews 2019, TNS Lit Scene / March 13, 2020by Yannise Jean Saidiya Hartman’s book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, is a radical, lyrical and intimate examination of the lives of the “ordinary...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC BIOGRAPHY FINALIST GEORGE PACKER
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2019 NBCC Finalist Interviews, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews, MFA Creative Writing Events, NBCC Biography Finalist Interviews 2019, TNS Lit Scene / March 12, 2020Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and faculty, we are able to...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC NONFICTION FINALIST LYDIA DAVIS
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2019 NBCC Finalist Interviews, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews, NBCC Nonfiction Finalist Interviews 2019, TNS Lit Scene / March 9, 2020by Pune Dracker At the back of the bus,inside the bathroom,this very small illegal passenger,on its way to Boston.-- “The Fly,” Lydia Davis A classic short story—yes, short story—from the w...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC FICTION FINALIST EDWIDGE DANTICAT
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2019 NBCC Finalist Interviews, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews, NBCC Fiction Finalist Interviews 2019, TNS Lit Scene / March 6, 2020by Heran Abate Edwidge Danticat’s Everything Inside is a finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction. This short story collection takes us into the intimate depths of characters grappling to commu...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 WINNER OF THE BALAKIAN PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN REVIEWING KATY WALDMAN
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews, TNS Lit Scene / March 6, 2020By Ladane Nasseri Katy Waldman is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Previously, she was a staff writer at Slate, where she wrote about language, culture, and politics, and hosted the Slat...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC POETRY FINALIST ILYA KAMINSKY
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews, TNS Lit Scene / March 6, 2020By Jessalyn Johnson In his book Deaf Republic, award-winning poet Ilya Kaminsky explores political disorder in a community where the people are united in a time of tragedy, uncertai...
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Five Questions With Ahmad Al-Ashqar
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / March 5, 2020Ahmad Al-Ashqar is a nomadic, romantic, illmatic Palestinian-American poet-translator. Soon after his birth in Kuwait, at the start of the Gulf War his family was displaced to Jordan before movin...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC AUTOBIOGRAPHY FINALIST MIRA JACOB
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews, TNS Lit Scene / March 4, 2020By Ramya Ramana Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and fac...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC NONFICTION FINALIST RACHEL LOUISE SNYDER
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews, TNS Lit Scene / March 4, 2020by LaVonne Elaine Roberts Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our student...
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Interview with 2019 NBCC Poetry Finalist Morgan Parker
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews, TNS Lit Scene / March 3, 2020By Masha Shollar Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the poetry collections Magical Negro (Tin House 2019), There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (Tin ...
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Interview with 2019 NBCC Nonfiction Finalist Patrick Radden Keefe
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews, TNS Lit Scene / March 3, 2020by Plamena Malinova Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and ...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC NONFICTION FINALIST PETER HESSLER
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews, TNS Lit Scene / March 2, 2020by Michael Schmale Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and f...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC POETRY FINALIST MARY RUEFLE
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews, TNS Lit Scene / March 2, 2020by Gina Chung Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and facult...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC POETRY FINALIST BRIAN TEARE
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 2, 2020By Richard Sharp Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and fac...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC FICTION FINALIST VALERIA LUISELLI
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews, TNS Lit Scene / March 2, 2020By Vanessa Chan Thoughtful, quiet, and yet at times troubling and terrifying, Valeria Luiselli’s novel Lost Children Archive refuses to conform. It is a story of a road trip, a journey of an e...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC BIOGRAPHY FINALIST JOSH LEVIN
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews, TNS Lit Scene / March 2, 2020by L.B. Browne In his critically acclaimed book The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth, Josh Levin, national editor of Slate, introduces us to Linda Taylor, a welfare cheat who ...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC FICTION FINALIST MYLA GOLDBERG
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews, MFA Creative Writing Events, TNS Lit Scene / March 2, 2020Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and faculty, we are abl...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC NONFICTION FINALIST KATE BROWN
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews, MFA Creative Writing Events, TNS Lit Scene / March 2, 2020Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and faculty, we are able ...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC BIOGRAPHY FINALIST SONIA PURNELL
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews, TNS Lit Scene / February 28, 2020By Taylor Sue Leonhardt Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our student...
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INTERVIEW WITH NAOMI SHIHAB NYE RECIPIENT OF THE 2019 NBCC IVAN SANDROF AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
By Creative Writing at The New School / in 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews, TNS Lit Scene / February 28, 2020By Aekta Khubchandani Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students a...
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