Hot News This Week
August 22, 2024
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| “In the decade since losing Jim, I learned that properly directed grief enables hope and change.” Monday, August 19, marked ten years since journalist James Foley was killed by ISIS in Syria, and Diane Foley commemorated her son’s life in a New York Times op-ed about his legacy helping to change US hostage policy.
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“One of the strangest novels I have ever read, and the fact that it is based on a true story makes it even better. . . . The writing style is unique and has a way of gripping onto you, forcing you right into the middle of this crazy, and relatively horrific, story. I will be thinking about Mary Toft for a long time, and recommending this book to anyone I can even longer!” — Emma Sikora, Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA)
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| Dave Eggers Reviews Giant on the Shore
Alfonso Ochoa’s Giant on the Shore, a picture book illustrated by Azul López and translated by Shook, was reviewed by author Dave Eggers for the New York Times Book Review on August 18. “We don’t see [the giant]. Instead, we see human endeavor from his lofty perspective, and though everything the humans do is indeed tiny, and perhaps inconsequential, in López’s witty and colorful paintings their world looks festive and bright,” writes Eggers. Giant on the Shore “perfectly captures the ennui specific to the enormous,” and it’s especially “suitable for study by children awake to the surreal and the sublime.”
Giant on the Shore
by Alfonso Ochoa, illus. Azul López, trans. Shook
Transit Children’s Editions • May 2024 • 9781945492877
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| Four Most Anticipated Fall Books
Kirkus Reviews named four titles from Consortium publishers among their most anticipated books for fall:
Trigger by C.G. Moore (Little Island Books): “A survivor’s story portrayed with honest heaviness and caring vulnerability.”
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| Info-determinism and The Revolt of the Public
On August 13, Martin Gurri’s The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium was discussed in a New Yorker piece on info-determinism and online networks steering our history in ways we don’t like and can’t control.“I first read The Revolt of the Public in 2016, after Donald Trump won the Presidency, because many bloggers I followed described it as prescient. I disagreed with Gurri, who has a libertarian sensibility, on many points,” writes editor Joshua Rothman. “But I also found its analysis illuminating, and I’ve thought about the book with drumbeat regularity ever since.”
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★ “Through elegant yellow and black illustrations, Harms’s powerful English-language debut traces the ecosystems that pollinators inhabit—and exposes the dangers that threaten their existence. . . . Readers will be convinced by this firm and vibrantly drawn warning call.” — Publishers Weekly
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“From celebrated novelist Elisa Albert comes The Snarling Girl, a collection of energetic essays written over the course of the last decade. Albert’s voice is like none other—brazen, provocative, and honest.” — Jewish Book Council
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“[Poet Anna Goodman Herrick] brings to her slim collection a deep knowledge of Jewish topics and a bold, imaginative palette.” — Jewish Book Council
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“For a book that deals with so much from the past, The Unruly Archive casts an equally sharp eye to the future. Among its most resonant tactics is the space given to other artists working with archives.” — ArtReview
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| | New Digital Review Copies
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The Caricaturist
by Norman Lock
Bellevue Literary Press • July 2024 • 9781954276277
“Lock successfully mimics [Stephen] Crane’s impressionistic style in his marvelous depictions of late 19th-century America.” — Publishers Weekly
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Laura Henriksen, author of Laura’s Desires (Nightboat Books), was interviewed for BOMB on August 20.
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