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.

May 23, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Jack Rockwell |Chiara Marchelli |J. R. Ramakrishnan

In his 2013 review of the second volume of Knausgård’s My Struggle, Leland de la Durantaye asked: “Why would you read a six-volume, 3,600-page Norwegian novel about a man writing a six-volume, 3,600-page Norwegian novel?” While Otohiko Kaga’s Marshland isn’t quite so long—a mere 1,035 pages, in one volume instead of six—a similar question is operative here, or indeed any time a novel comes out that’s much longer than most of the rest that we read. Why is the long form required?