Jack Rockwell

Nov 5, 2024 | astrapublishinghouse.com | Julia Kornberg |Jack Rockwell |Kohei Saito

A book about unrequited love, parasocial relationships, K-pop fandom, or the loneliness of modern life…A novel about the complex interior lives of women…Y/N by Esther Yi: Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant. A provocative literary debut about the universal longing for transcendence and the tragic struggle to assert one’s singular story amidst the amnesiac effects of globalization.

Oct 1, 2024 | full-stop.net | Jack Rockwell

This interview grew out of conversations with Wendy Call while she was Translator-in-Residence at the Iowa Translation Workshop, where I was a graduate student. We discussed her recently-published translations, in trilingual editions, of three books of poetry by Indigenous Latin American authors: In the Belly of Night and Other Poems and Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater by Irma Piñeda, and How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems, co-translated with Shook, by Mikeas Sánchez.

Aug 30, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Julia Kornberg |Jack Rockwell |Kristin Hannah |Sally Rooney

A dramatic, vividly detailed reconstruction of a little-known aspect of the Vietnam War. A young woman’s experience as a nurse in Vietnam casts a deep shadow over her life. When we learn that the farewell party in the opening scene is for Frances “Frankie” McGrath’s older brother—“a golden boy, a wild child who could make the hardest heart soften”—who is leaving to serve in Vietnam in 1966, we feel pretty certain that poor Finley McGrath is marked for death.