Hot News This Week
January 19, 2023
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“I have been searching for a copy of this phenomenal, long-out-of-print collection for years. Get ready to be completely absorbed in these candid interviews with literary superstars of the 20th century—including Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, and Alice Walker—about their work and their lives.”—Michelle C., Powell’s Books (Portland, OR)
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Coming Soon: Southern Noir and Pulpy French Thrills
Releasing in the coming weeks, these thrillers from Akashic and Transit are garnering nice pre-pub attention.
Laurent Mauvignier’s The Birthday Party, a French psychological thriller translated by Daniel Levin Becker, will be published in the US on February 7. “The Birthday Party is a chilling, masterful work,” says writer Charlie Lee in a review for Gawker. “[It’s] that rare thing, a genre-bending novel that sacrifices neither its literary merits nor its pulpy thrills.” The book has also received a starred review from Kirkus, comprehensive reviews from Publishers Weekly and The Guardian, and good early buzz online from writers Merve Emre and Brandy Jensen.
Night Letter
by Sterling Watson
Akashic Books • January 2023 • 9781636140636
The Birthday Party
by Laurent Mauvignier, trans. Daniel Levin Becker
Transit Books • February 2023 • 9781945492655
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Jan. 24.
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| | Two Sherpas
by Sebastián Martínez Daniell, trans. Jennifer Croft
Charco Press • February 2023 • 9781913867416
★ “Expansive, engrossing . . . An ambitiously inventive, profoundly intelligent trek through highly personal experiences of lingering imperialism.”—Kirkus Reviews
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“This exquisite nonfiction picture book timed to the Lunar New Year pairs science and celestial wonder as it follows the moon through its 29-day cycle.”—New York Times Book Review
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| | Antagony
by Luis Goytisolo, trans. Brendan Riley
Deep Vellum / Dalkey Archive • November 2022 • 9781628973983
“This quartet of novels, three of them previously untranslated, are a classic of Spanish postwar literature often compared to the works of Proust and Joyce.”—New Yorker
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New Digital Review Copies
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“These are wonderful stories . . . about the anxieties and amnesias of our time, how strange and essential we are to each other. Above all they are truly surprising, in the way of life itself.”—Elizabeth McCracken
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On January 18, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, author of Elite Capture (Haymarket Books), appeared on Democracy Now! to discuss his acclaimed work.
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