While It Lasts reviewed in American Book Review

One of the best reviews I’ve ever gotten, from a writer I greatly admire: https://americanbookreview.org/focus-dark-academe-winter-2024/.

Here are some highlights:

“The pure short story collection is nearly always considered second class—that is, unless you're Alice Munro or George Saunders or one of the handful of others who play in the Premier League. With the publication of While It Lasts, winner of the Donald L. Jordan Literary Prize for Literary Excellence, released in conjunction with Columbia State University Press, Scott Nadelson's name can be added to that elite list….

Nadelson opens this engaging collection of seventeen stories with "Gray on Green on Brown," a pitch-perfect piece about the young Mark Rothko…

"Babenhausen, 1947" is a haunting story that should be included in every anthology of Holocaust literature…

Nadelson is an impressively disciplined writer, a lovely and lyrical master of his craft, savvy enough to know how much scenic description is needed and how to effectively present dialogue, action, and plot. He's also smart enough to know when to allow details to speak for themselves….

These are rich stories, smart, written with love and a genuine regard for humanity. While It Lasts is a collection of short fiction that discriminating readers will not only want to read and return to, but also to gift to friends.”