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NBCC member @sean-carlson.bsky.social's interview with @erinfornoff.bsky.social ("We Are an Archipelago," 2025) and @gphibbett.bsky.social ("High Jump as Icarus Story," 2024) on their experiences growing up in the U.S. and writing poetry in Ireland, was published in The Common:

NBCC member @hollay.bsky.social interviewed Saad T. Farooqi for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social:

NBCC member @meglemke.bsky.social compiled a preview of comics and graphic novels coming in the spring for Publishers Weekly:

NBCC member Eric Olson profiled Charlotte Wood for Literary Hub:

NBCC member @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social wrote about about novels about the publishing industry for @thetls.bsky.social:

NBCC member Rebecca Brenner Graham was profiled in @contingent-mag.bsky.social:

NBCC member Celia McGee reviewed Jane Austen's "Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest To Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend" by Rebecca Romney, for @airmail.news:

NBCC member Rhoda Feng reviewed Imani Perry’s "Black in Blues" for Frieze:

NBCC member Jason Berry reviewed Pope Francis’ "Hope" for @ncronline.bsky.social:

NBCC member @kaimaristed.bsky.social reviewed "Darkenbloom," written by Eva Menasse and translated from the German by Charlotte Collins, for The Arts Fuse: https://buff.ly/4i1zb9X

Former NBCC Board Member @mathitak.bsky.social reviewed Olivia Wolfgang-Smith's "Mutual Interest" for The Washington Post:

NBCC member Carol Iaciofano Aucoin reviewed Tova Mirvis' "We Would Never" for WBUR's Arts & Culture:

NBCC member Bill Thompson reviewed "Sweet Nothings: Confessions of a Candy Lover" by Sarah Perry for the Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier:

NBCC board member @tobiascarroll.bsky.social wrote about some January books in translation for @wwborders.bsky.social:

NBCC Co-Vice President/Events @laurenleblanc.bsky.social wrote about Tove Jansson’s trip to the U.S. for @theatlantic.com:

For @insidehook.bsky.social, NBCC board member @tobiascarroll.bsky.social talked with @stephenharrison.com about Wikipedia and his novel "The Editors":

NBCC member @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social wrote about a 13th-century romance's depiction of a government takeover for @thetls.bsky.social:

NBCC member @hollay.bsky.social reviewed Pamela Mulloy’s "Off the Tracks: A Meditation on Train Journeys in a Time of No Travel" for Heavy Feather Review:

At @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social, NBCC board member @tobiascarroll.bsky.social spoke with @christinajcooke.bsky.social about her novel "Broughtupsy":

NBCC member Robert Allen Papinchak reviewed Julie Gilbert’s "Giant Love" for @thetls.bsky.social:

Former board member @lorifeathers.bsky.social and her fellow judges for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize, US & Canada invite everyone to a virtual Zoom party where indie publishers, authors, and translators will discuss their longlisted titles on Feb. 19 at 7 a.m. Eastern:

NBCC member @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social reviewed Lea Ypi's "Free: Coming of Age at the End of History" for the @nybooks.com:

NBCC member Paul Wilner interviewed @kevinwriter.bsky.social, author of "The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family and Second Chances," for the San Francisco Examiner:

NBCC member Chris Barsanti reviewed Glenn Adamson's "A Century of Tomorrows" for PopMatters:

In The Brooklyn Rail, NBCC member John Domini reviewed "Sand-Catcher," a novel by the Palestinian expat Omar Khalifah, translated by Barbara Romaine:

NBCC member Karl Wolff reviewed "At the End of the World There is a Pond: Poems" by Steven Duong for the New York Journal of Books:

NBCC member Nell Beram reviewed "Reunion" by Elise Juska for the @pressherald.bsky.social:

NBCC member Mike Good reviewed Nicholas Yingling's "The Fire Road" for @coloradoreview.bsky.social:

NBCC member @aidenhunt.bsky.social reviewed "Blade by Blade" by Danusha Laméris for New Pages:

NBCC member @ednabonhomme.bsky.social interviewed Shon Faye about her latest book, "Love in Exile," for Frieze:

Former NBCC board member @anitafelicelli.bsky.social reviewed Lidia Yuknavitch's "Reading the Waves" for Alta:

NBCC Vice President/Membership and Technology @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social, with co-hosts @nonsuchbook.bsky.social and @ds228.bsky.social, discussed Lydia Kiesling's novel "Mobility" for the @onebrightbook.bsky.social podcast:

In her Girl Writing column for the @wirobooks.bsky.social, NBCC member @ellenpcampbell.bsky.social wrote about character names and the virtue of mercy:

NBCC member Tom Peebles reviewed Timothy Garton Ash’s "Homelands: A Personal History of Europe" on his blog:

NBCC member Linda Hitchcock reviewed Marianne Cronin’s "Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love" for BookTrib:

NBCC member @erikgleibermann.bsky.social reviewed Imani Perry’s "Black in Blues" and Lee Hawkins’ "I Am Nobody’s Slave" for Oprah Daily’s Black History Month roundup:

NBCC member @coryoldweiler.bsky.social reviewed Kari Dickson’s translation of Erling Kagge’s "After the North Pole" for The Minnesota Star Tribune:

NBCC member @casella.bsky.social talked to Hilary Strang, the director of the Master of the Arts Program in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, about Kim Stanley Robinson's novel "Aurora" for the podcast @mealofthorns.bsky.social:

For the @duluthnewstribune.com, NBCC member @jaygabler.com wrote a column about Vanessa L. Torres's YA contemporary fantasy novel "On the Wings of La Noche":

NBCC member Robert Allen Papinchak has had two poems—“grief” and “Getting on the ferry”—accepted by North of Oxford:

NBCC member Charles Green reviewed Brad Gooch's "Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring" for the @washblade.bsky.social:

NBCC member @megclayton.com's "Typewriter Beach" (Harper, July 1) was just named a Zibby Most Anticipated Book of 2025:

NBCC member Bruce Krajewski reviewed Paraic O'Donnell's "The Naming of the Birds" for The Guardian:

Former NBCC board member and recipient of the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Steven G. Kellman reviewed Jeff Sebo's "The Moral Circle" for Arts Alive San Antonio:

NBCC member Linda Hitchcock reviewed Beezy Marsh’s "Queen of Diamonds" for BookTrib:

NBCC Co-Vice President/Events @laurenleblanc.bsky.social reviewed Geraldine Brooks’ "Memorial Days" for the Los Angeles Times:

NBCC member @hopereese.bsky.social wrote about expert-recommended decluttering books for The New York Times:

NBCC member Eric Olson profiled @thomas-kohnstamm.bsky.social for The Seattle Times:

NBCC member @briallenhopper.bsky.social reviewed Sarah Chihaya's "Bibliophobia" for @newrepublic.com:

NBCC member @sharalessley.bsky.social, editor-at-large for West Branch, edited a feature on the 30th anniversary of Brigit Pegeen Kelly's "SONG," including essays by David Baker, @amitmajmudar.bsky.social, @gabriellebates.bsky.social, and C. Dale Young: