Scott Nadelson

Aug 25, 2023 | oregonhumanities.org | Shane Burley |Scott Nadelson

Ahavah traced her finger along a line on a map of Ukraine. “On the coast here, along the Black Sea, is where my family is from,” she said. “Yours came from the north, in what’s now Belarus.” My wife had been poring over our family records, and now we were comparing the results of our DNA tests. Our collage of birth records and obituaries now had connective tissue, a tenuous claim to genetic ancestry. Her history goes back to the Black Sea Germans; mine to upper Ukraine.

May 2, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Henry Bean |Hannah Rothschild |Scott Nadelson |Nishanth Injam

Screenwriter Bean’s marvelous novel, first published in 1982 as False Match, is about a nenoquich—the ancient Mexican word for a lifelong loser, born under a bad sign. It’s 1970, and wannabe writer Harold Raab, 26, is on the skids. He begs Penthouse magazine to give him an assignment, hangs out with his Berkeley, Calif., crew of fellow bohemians, and fills a notebook with their aimless adventures. His life acquires meaning when he meets the married Charlotte Cobin.

Mar 15, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Scott Nadelson |Gabrielle Zevin

by Scott Nadelson ‧ This collection of 17 stories covers life across contemporary America and historic Europe, with an eye toward has-beens and yet-to-be’s. Mark Rothko, who “has yet to pick up a brush or touch paint to canvas,” weeps after he catches a similarly young Clark Gable seducing their acting teacher in Portland, Oregon. A lightly fictionalized Arnold Schoenberg begins to compose the music that will make him famous, while his wife carries out an affair with a younger painter.

Mar 15, 2023 | powells.com | Scott Nadelson

by Scott Nadelson $17.00 New Trade Paperback Release Date: 3/21/2023  Upcoming EventScott Nadelson’s award-winning short story collection, While It Lasts (University of Georgia Press), brings us moments of tenuousness, in which characters seek out or struggle to hold on to what’s most precious in the face of change and loss.

Feb 13, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Hannah Rothschild |Scott Nadelson |Nishanth Injam

Tyriek White. Astra House, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-66260-171-2White follows a Brooklyn family across three generations in his poignant and poetic debut. Audrey, the grandmother, moves from North Carolina to Brooklyn, where she lives in the same apartment for 40 years before her rent is jacked up and she’s evicted in the late 2000s, a year after the death of her daughter, Key, from cancer. Key’s 14-year-old son, Colly, searches for ways to move on with a fractured family after his mother’s death.