Hot News This Week
December 5, 2024
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| For Small Business Saturday, Michelle Obama shared a video featuring Suzette Mayr’s The Sleeping Car Porter (Coach House Books), which she purchased at the recommendation of a bookseller from King’s English Bookshop (Salt Lake City, UT). Watch the former first lady’s celebration of indie bookstores on Instagram.
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| Glenn Close on Family’s New Book
Glenn Close spoke with PEOPLE this week for a profile on Silence You co-authors Jessie Close and Calen Pick, her sister and nephew. “I had my heart in my throat because I knew it was very close to what actually happened,” says the actor. “It peeled back another layer of what they all went through.” The novel, published this week, is based on Pick’s experiences with schizoaffective disorder, and as he tells PEOPLE, “Writing the book was like putting it back together, my fall into psychosis and how I began to recover.”
Silence You
by Jessie Close and Calen T. Pick
Central Recovery Press • December 2024 • 9781949481921
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| Best Books of the Year
- Giant On The Shore by Alfonso Ochoa, illus. Azul López, trans. Shook (Transit Children’s Editions)
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“This collection grabbed me on the first page and demanded I enter its many worlds of weird, often grotesque, nightmare-fuel. The stories here are varied and original, sometimes psychological horror and others more like dark fantasy. The thing they share is the hunt.” — Miranda Sanchez, Epilogue Books (Chapel Hill, NC)
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“This book is absolutely brilliant! Full of gorgeous illustrations and interesting fun facts on flowers and a variety of other topics. If Flowers Were Little Monsters is perfect for the kid with a thirst for knowledge and a big imagination.” — Ali Jaksich, Changing Hands Bookstore (Tempe, AZ)
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| | R.U.R.
by Katerina Cupová, trans. Julie Nováková
Rosarium Publishing • December 2024 • 9798986614687
★ “Čupová’s English-language debut, a whimsical adaptation of the 1921 play by Karel Čapec, spins out a grim moral quandary in marvelous style. . . . It’s a beautiful portrait of existential struggle.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | Barley Patch
by Gerald Murnane
And Other Stories • February 2025 • 9781916751149
★ “Spectacular . . . Murnane’s effort to push the novel from its traditional bounds pays dividends. The result is nothing short of genius.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | Life After Kafka
by Magdaléna Platzová, trans. Alex Zucker
Bellevue Literary Press • August 2024 • 9781954276291
“A remarkable act of fictional recuperation that enables a new generation of Kafka-obsessed readers to feel Felice’s presence yet again.” — Jewish Book Council
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“You can gulp down A Case of Matricide in one sitting, as the prose style seems to demand. But linger over Burnet’s novel, and its real pleasures emerge.” — New York Times Book Review
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“Boom is a vast, ambitious book, a broad-strokes ‘theory of history’ of Freudian or Hegelian type that contemporary academics are often too scared to write.” — Arena Magazine
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“A bold offering from a talented emerging writer . . . M.M. Olivas’s debut novel, Sundown in San Ojuela, brings together Nahuatl culture, chupacabras (creatures akin to vampires) and more to deliver an evocative narrative about survival, family history and how the past haunts us.” — New York Times Book Review
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| | Chicago in Color
by Judit Prat Martí
Trope Publishing • October 2024 • 9781951963286
“A modestly-scaled gem with many facets of lively color.” — WTTW News
“If Andy Warhol and Wes Anderson designed a vision of the city, it would probably look like the one in Judit Prat Marti’s volume.” — Block Club Chicago
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| | New Digital Review Copies
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ABA Bestseller
Loving Corrections
by adrienne maree brown
AK Press • August 2024 • 9781849355544
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“The Day and Night Books of Mardou Fox offers a vivid reimagining, the story of a Black bohemian: sharp, inquisitive, and free. Shawl’s novella is suffused with magic.” — Alta Journal
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