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December 1, 2022
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| | Waking Beauty
by Rebecca Solnit
Haymarket Books • November 2022 • 9781642598339
“A fresh story of vengeful witches, a young woman cursed to sleep, and ultimately everyone living happily, without archaic celebrations of royalty, a princely hero, or the amorphous promise of ‘ever after.’”—Shaun Manning, Booksweet (Ann Arbor, MI)
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Read and Watch These Next: the Works of Joyce Chopra
Films directed by Joyce Chopra, including Smooth Talk and Joyce at 34, are currently available for streaming on the Criterion Channel. The feature collection is presented in conjunction with the release of Chopra’s autobiography, Lady Director: Adventures in Hollywood, Television and Beyond, which has been landing major praise recently. “Chopra writes in a prose style that is both unflinching and unsentimental,” according to the Washington Post’s review on November 22. “Her autobiography traces the evolving role of women directors in Hollywood by drawing extensively on her own five decades in film and television. . . . The insights she offers into the profession are rare.” For more on the book, read coverage via IndieWire, San Francisco Chronicle, Literary Hub, Hollywood Reporter, Mental Floss, Library Journal’s starred review, and Publishers Weekly.
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LyricPop in the Spotlight
Shiny Happy People
by R.E.M., illus. Paul Hoppe
Akashic Books • November 2022 • 9781617758515
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Librarian Love from NYPL and CPL
The New York Public Library and the Chicago Public Library had a wealth of favorite books from Consortium publishers this year! Check out the titles that topped their lists:
Adults
Kids
Adults
- Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov, trans. Boris Dralyuk (Deep Vellum Publishing)
Picture Books
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More Best Books of the Year
With year-end lists rolling in, we’re keeping tabs on all the books featured from Consortium publishers. Browse more 2022 coverage highlights, and check out what’s new this week:
Bookforum, “Writers on Their Favorite Books of 2022”
- My Father’s Diet by Adrian Nathan West (And Other Stories)
- Septology by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls (Transit Books)
Kirkus Reviews
NPR, “Books We Love 2022”
Washington Post
- Names and Rivers by Shuri Kido, trans. Tomoyuki Endo and Forrest Gander (Copper Canyon Press)
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Dec. 6.
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★ “Lyrically wrought and emotionally piercing . . . A masterly and distinctive study of the travails of leaving home; highly recommended.”—Library Journal
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★ “Almost every story here is a study in restraint, Sen’s considerable talent evident in her ability to wring meaning from the smallest details. Quiet, emotionally gripping stories.”—Kirkus Reviews
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“These fragments of the archive read like the microfictions of Lydia Davis or the poetic reclamations of Susan Howe: cryptic, grimly funny, self-contained.”—The Nation
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| | Solenoid
by Mircea Cartarescu, trans. Sean Cotter
Deep Vellum Publishing • October 2022 • 9781646052028
“The writing itself is hypnotic and gorgeously captures the oneiric quality of Cărtărescu’s Bucharest. . . . The translation’s quality is nothing short of remarkable.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
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“This publisher produces the most exquisite picture books, and this glorious ode to water—translated from Japanese by David Boyd—is no exception.”—New York Post
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| | The Acrobat
by Edward J. Delaney
Turtle Point Press • November 2022 • 9781885983039
“This fictionalized and sympathetic biographical novel focuses on a turbulent 10-year period when Grant turned to experimental LSD therapies to address his troubles by journeying inward.”—Oprah Daily
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New Digital Review Copies
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“Rendered in crisp, cranky English by Jeffrey Zuckerman, the book is a caustic feast. Its extraordinary bitterness is shot through with a certain debased kink.”—New York Times Book Review
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On Browsing
by Jason Guriel
Biblioasis • November 2022 • 9781771965101
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