Welcome to “Behind the Byline,” the column in which we share conversations with current NER writers in all genres. NER international correspondent Ellen Hinsey speaks with Luis S. Krausz and Ana Fletcher, author and translator, respectively, of “The Clocks.” “The Clocks,” excerpted from Krausz’s novel Memories in Ruins and brought to our attention by Hinsey, appears in NER 36.1. EH: I’d like to start by asking […]
Year: 2015
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Behind the Byline | Luis S. Krausz and Ana Fletcher
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NER Digital | Sean Warren
Rondanini Pietá | Sean Warren In Milan, the travel books direct us first to Leonardo’s Last Supper, the opulent fresco of high Renaissance color faded by moisture and rattled by Allied bombs during World War II. Contrary to Michelin, Lonely Planet, and the rest, however, I recommend—no appointment necessary, as with the Last Supper—a […]
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Behind the Byline
Welcome to “Behind the Byline,” the column in which we share conversations with current NER writers in all genres. NER editor Carolyn Kuebler speaks with Carolyn Page, author of the story “Marksberry Road” which appears in NER 36.1. CK: This story first struck me by its perfectly matter-of-fact tone and then later by a haunting […]
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Behind the Byline | Kevin Prufer
Welcome to “Behind the Byline,” the column in which we share conversations with current NER writers in all genres. This month, NER poetry editor Rick Barot speaks with poet Kevin Prufer. RB: Your poem “In the Wheat Field” has a disturbingly memorable opening. Can you talk about that opening moment, and the things that gave rise to the […]
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NER Digital | Sofi Stambo
Florence | Sofi Stambo The correct answer is, abandon everything in New York—the futon, the desk, the chair, and the dishes—and move here. I’d already abandoned Bulgaria, decades ago, along with the family, the books, and the bicycle. Biciclette in Italian. Also famiglia and libri. I am good at either decision-making or abandoning. I will […]
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Behind the Byline | Lorraine Hanlon Comanor
Welcome to “Behind the Byline,” the column in which we share conversations with current NER writers in all genres. This month, NER editor Carolyn Kuebler speaks with former US Figure Skating champion, retired anesthesiologist, and now-author Lorraine Hanlon Comanor. Comanor’s essay “In the Shadow of Parsenn” (NER 36.1) reveals some heart wrenching truths about being a teenager on the road and at […]
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Behind the Byline | Chris Nelson
Welcome to “Behind the Byline,” the column in which we share conversations with current NER writers in all genres. This month, NER associate editor J. M. Tyree speaks with writer Chris Nelson, author of “Speaking of Neil Young” (NER 35.4). JMT: I read your essay on Neil Young just before seeing him perform in Hyde Park in London. Listening […]
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Behind the Byline | Luke Brekke
Welcome to “Behind the Byline,” the column in which we share conversations with current NER writers in all genres. This month, NER poetry editor Rick Barot speaks with poet Luke Brekke, author of “June” (NER 35.4). RB: When I first read “June,” I thought of it as a pastoral poem with an elegy up its sleeve. How did the poem come […]
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New NER Digital | Rachel Richardson
On Kara Walker’s “Narratives of a Negress” | Rachel Richardson My sister had been living in New York that fall, trying out dance school, renting a room in an illegal apartment with plywood walls, across the street from the train station in Queens. We wandered Manhattan by day, unsure of what to do with a city […]
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Behind the Byline | Allegra Hyde
Welcome to “Behind the Byline,” the column in which we share conversations with current NER writers in all genres. This month, NER fiction reader Rachel Mullis speaks with author Allegra Hyde. RM: “Shark Fishing” (which appears in NER 35.4) is a haunting meditation on humanity’s relationship with our environment, spanning centuries through the lens of one small island in the Bahamas. […]
