Hot News This Week
January 18, 2024
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| In a Utah reading list for the New York Times Book Review, Terry Tempest Williams identifies Torrey House Press as an important part of the region’s book culture. “They publish spirited books at the intersection of literature and environmental advocacy,” says Williams.
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“A powerful testament to the rich history of Palestinians and their continued resistance and resilience as a people. This collection of photos taken between 1898 and 1946 shows a history that many of us in the West (self included) have not been exposed to. . . . A heartbreaking and important book.” — Beth Bissmeyer, Carmichael’s Bookstore (Louisville, KY)
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| New Fiction: Fiery Short Stories and a Deadly, Hardy Boys-esque Novel
A full review of Mark Anthony Jarman’s Burn Man is set to appear in this weekend’s New York Times Book Review. “Many writers are content to light one or two well-placed lyrical firecrackers in a short story. Others, like Mark Anthony Jarman, set off entire fireworks displays on every page,” writes author Lincoln Michel in the piece. “Reading Burn Man left me seeing a bit more beauty in our hurting-heart world.”
Michele Mari’s Verdigris was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal on January 13. According to critic Sam Sacks, the novel is “a delightful game, up until the moment it turns deadly serious,” and it’s “superbly translated” by Brian Robert Moore: “The effect is like reading a Hardy Boys adventure that suddenly crosses into the bloodiest currents of 20th-century history.” Sacks also praises Mari’s You, Bleeding Childhood, published last August, as “a standout selection of his stories.”
Verdigris
by Michele Mari, trans. Brian Robert Moore
And Other Stories • January 2024 • 9781913505905
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★ “This resonant and comprehensive retrospective of Valentine, who died in 2020, celebrates the poet’s visceral, spiritual, and uncanny writing.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “Marvelous and moving . . . Pritchard’s splendid latest illuminates the life of Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) by portraying the idiosyncratic woman behind the Victorian icon.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “Stefánsson delivers an astonishing, free-wheeling narrative of an amnesiac’s search for meaning. . . . Stefánsson is poised to make his mark on the world stage.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | The Hebrew Teacher
by Maya Arad, trans. Jessica Cohen
New Vessel Press • March 2024 • 9781954404236
★ “Meticulously observed, with remarkable shades of subtlety and nuance. What could have easily become a political screed is, instead, a gentle inquiry into aging, what it means to be relevant, academic ambition, and, most particularly, the morality of Zionist politics.” — Kirkus Reviews
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“Maalouf’s twist on alien contact is fantastic. . . . You’ll be left questioning nothing less than the value of human civilization.” — Kay Wosewick, Boswell Book Company (Milwaukee, WI)
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In their January 2024 issue, LEADERS magazine posthumously published an interview with Charles T. Munger about his reflections in Poor Charlie’s Almanack (Stripe Press).
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Aurora Mattia’s The Fifth Wound (Nightboat Books) was recommended in Vogue last month by author Emily Zhou.
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