#nathaniel popkin

[thelifeelsewhere]

Thoughts On Our Eco-Crisis Responsibility & A Chilling Account Of Motherhood

Thoughts On Our Eco-Crisis Responsibility & A Chilling Account Of Motherhood

  Nathaniel Popkin loves writing. And he is passionate about delivering his thoughts to his readers. He agrees that his latest book is a guidebook to what we need to be thinking, not what to do, but what to think about the eco-crisis. In To Reach The Spring – From Complicity To Consciousness In The Age Of Eco-Crisis, the Philadelphia-based writer doesn’t lecture, he shares his own thoughts on…

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[samgridley]

Trampling on Borders: An Apologia

Trampling on Borders: An Apologia

My friend Nathaniel Popkin recently published The Year of the Return, an extraordinary novel in which he gives ten separate characters a first-person point of view. They range from young to very old, from a business owner to a truck driver to a journalist to a deeply troubled war vet. To me the undertaking seemed admirably ambitious, and his ability to pull it off impressive. The characters come…

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[therumpus]

Dead People is, then, a book of connections and interrogations, the object of which is the nature of reality itself and how we face it, if we can. Goldberg and Meis fix a gentle but inquisitive gaze on the lives of their dead as if they are modeling the form of their inquiry on its function. Some particularly monstrous realities of the 20th century—mass slaughter, failed ideologies, fast food, the dispossessed—demand courage to bear, but are also fertile ground for writers and artists. Those who faced them, the authors assert, directed the cultural flowering of their century.

Nathaniel Popkin reviews Dead People by Morgan Meis and Stefany Anne Goldberg.

[public-books]

Smith—alchemist, painter, mixer of tones—softly rubs them together, ultimately breaching the standard picture plane. It’s the reader’s joy to watch her work

Nathaniel Popkin on Ali Smith

[snowdenlit]

Judging A Book By Its Cover

I don’t know too much about Lion and Leopard, the book I just received from Dactyl Review, but I do know this. The cover is damn handsome.

I’ll be reviewing this for them sometime in the next few weeks. You’ll hear about that in this space, I promise.

ANCILLARY MATTER: Dactyl decided that the review someone else wrote of my first book, Dismantle the Sun, didn’t meet their guidelines. (It didn’t…

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[nyrbclassics]

"Sex was going on all around us, in spite of danger and disruption; in spite of love." Joan Chase! @nyrbclassics

— Nathaniel Popkin (@NathanielPopkin) March 4, 2014

Joan Chase's During the Reign of the Queen of Persia (with an introduction by Megan O'Rourke) goes on sale April 15, 2014

[blamb]

But we also want, with equal force and desire, to break with tradition and invent the future. We’re desperate to be cool, to be cooler than the rest. For cities, this desire is survival. It is no coincidence that what characterizes Philadelphia’s very real reemergence is the sense that it’s a cool place to be–and not cool because it’s grungy and old and idiosyncratic, but because our chefs innovate, our dancers innovate, our fashion designers innovate, our scientists innovate.

Nathaniel Popkin at hiddencityphila.org