Archived News
2020
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Norton Dialogue
Join me and Rosanna Warren in conversation, talking about The Beauty of Living and about her new biography of the French modernist poet and painter, Max Jacob: a Life in Art and Letters, as well as her own recent volume of poetry, So Forth: Poems.
The Beauty of Living
audiobook release
News | The Beauty of Living
Absolutely thrilling to be named an Editors’ Choice this week in The New York Times!
Interview | Read, Learn, Live podcast
I really enjoyed my conversation with Jon Menaster for the Read, Learn, Live podcast. Freely available to listen.
Press | Beauty of Living publication
NEWS AND FEATURES
‘How a Parisian Sex Worker Stole the Heart of Poet EE Cummings’, The Observer, by Dalya Alberge, July 19, 2020.
‘E.E. Cummings and the Great War — Ep 79 with Alison Rosenblitt’, Read, Learn, Live podcast, hosted by Jon Menaster, August 1, 2020.
REVIEWS
‘An American Poet Shaped by the Futility and Sadism of War’, The New York Times, by David Bromwich, July 21, 2020.
‘Biography “The Beauty of Living” Examines Experiences that Shaped Poetic Voice of E.E. Cummings’, The ARTery (WBUR), by Michael Patrick Brady, July 21, 2020.
‘Review: “The Beauty of Living: E.E. Cummings in the Great War,” by J. Alison Rosenblitt’, Minneapolis Star Tribune, by Michael Magras, July 24, 2020.
‘The Beauty of Living’ Review: Beauty from the Mud’, The Wall Street Journal, by David Yezzi, July 24, 2020.
‘Review: The Beauty of Living: E.E. Cummings in the Great War By J. Alison Rosenblitt’, The Yorkshire Times, by Paul Spalding-Mulcock, August 11, 2020.
‘The Worldy Education of a Young Poet’, Harbour Light, by Brian Boeckl, August 12, 2020.
News | Rome after Sulla
Bloomsbury Academic.
Out in paperback, July 23, 2020!
News | Cicero sold to Princeton University Press
I’m thrilled to be working on my next book, a trade biography of Cicero, with Rob Tempio as my new editor at Princeton University Press. Read the news in The Bookseller.
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Pre-publication reviews out for The Beauty of Living.
my library recently…
The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson
Palace of the Peacock, by Wilson Harris
Black Rain Falling, by Jacob Ross
The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes
Bluets, by Maggie Nelson
Letters to a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke (trans. M.D. Herter Norton)
The Silence of the Girls, by Pat Barker
On Murder, by Thomas De Quincey
The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Accusation, by Bandi (trans. Deborah Smith)
1984, by George Orwell
Night Sky with Exit Wounds, by Ocean Vuong