Hot News This Week
January 11, 2024
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| Spotted on the silver screen: Deep Vellum’s logo, on an awards sponsorship banner during a pivotal scene in the film American Fiction (2023).
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| | Love Novel
by Ivana Sajko, trans. Mima Simic
Biblioasis • February 2024 • 9781771965989
“A dark, twisted tango of a novel that forces you to re-define love.” — Shannon Alden, Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)
“An absolutely propulsive read, I couldn’t put it down.” — Pat Rudebusch, Orinda Books (Orinda, CA)
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| | Trondheim
by Cormac James
Bellevue Literary Press • February 2024 • 9781954276239
“Honestly, Trondheim is a literary treasure. . . . My God but this author knows how to tell a story!” — Linda Bond, Auntie’s Bookstore (Spokane, WA)
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| The Power of Film on TCM
A new six-part documentary series based on Howard Suber’s acclaimed book The Power of Film is airing this month on TCM. The series, by filmmakers Doug Pray and Laura Gabbert, “combines footage from some of the most acclaimed and beloved movies of all time along with Suber’s own thoughts on why these films had such cultural and emotional impact on audiences, both upon their original release and still today.” Learn more about the series here.
The Power of Film
by Howard Suber
Michael Wiese Productions • September 2006 • 9781932907179
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Jan. 16.
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| | American Mother
by Colum McCann and Diane Foley
Etruscan Press • March 2024 • 9798985882452
★ “In this chronicle of Jim [Foley]’s, life, death, and legacy, National Book Award–winning novelist McCann shares the story of Jim’s mother, Diane, as she survived her son’s murder. . . . It is hard to call such a tragic story a thing of beauty, and yet that is what McCann has created here. Unforgettable.” — Booklist
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★ “Heikkilä writes with clarity as well as a restrained yet lyrical tone that makes Faraway Valley seem magical for readers as well. . . . A beautifully illustrated picture book with an environmental theme.” — Booklist
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★ “This delightful collection of Irish poetry for children, which includes some familiar poems and others new to discover, will appeal to young and old alike and is perfect for reading aloud.” — School Library Journal
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★ “At levels both micro and macro, Pritchett brings an electric connectivity to her portrait of the precariousness of this one wild, threatened world.” — Booklist
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| | Boulder
by Eva Baltasar, trans. Julia Sanches
And Other Stories • August 2022 • 9781913505387
“A ragged, sensuous story . . . here you will meet a gorgeously untethered woman wondering just what to do with her freedom. A book about new life for a new year.” — Parul Sehgal, New Yorker
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| | Happy Stories, Mostly
by Norman Erikson Pasaribu, trans. Tiffany Tsao
Feminist Press • June 2023 • 9781952177057
“The 12 stories in the book document the difficulty of queer lives, especially of gay men, in modern Indonesia. The plots may be propelled by tragedy, but no one—gay or straight—is reduced to or defined by trauma.” — The Nation
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| New Digital Review Copies
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“Eye opening and powerful . . . these essays are from the erased and marginalized points of views from writers both incarcerated and not.” — Audrey Huang, Belmont Books (Belmont, MA)
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