Hot News This Week
September 22, 2022
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| | The Pachinko Parlor
by Elisa Shua Dusapin, trans. Aneesa Abbas Higgins
Open Letter • September 2022 • 9781948830614
“I loved The Pachinko Parlor by Elisa Shua Dusapin and translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins! An unforgettable novel of loneliness, identity, and loss.”—Caitlin Luce Baker, Island Books (Mercer Island, WA), via Twitter
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Elite Capture in the New Yorker
On September 21, writer Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor reviewed Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s Elite Capture for the New Yorker. Táíwò’s book demonstrates how “identity politics is an important entry point into a world deeply defined by racism and gender inequality and hatred, but it alone is not enough,” writes Taylor. “As Táíwò, echoing Marx, reminds us, the point, after all, is to change [the world].”
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Carolyn Hays on WNYC’s The Takedown
On September 20, Melissa Harris-Perry interviewed author Carolyn Hays on WNYC’s The Takedown, where the pair discussed A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter, writing under a pen name, and parenting with a gender-affirming approach. “My daughter told me who she was and it was my job as a parent to make sure that she could be that person well,” says Hays. Listen to the interview here, and read Hays’s piece in Literary Hub for more on the decision to write under a pen name.
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Four Titles in the New York Times Book Review
Four Consortium titles received coverage in the New York Times Book Review recently. On September 21, writer Weike Wang reviewed Tomorrow in Shanghai by May-lee Chai for the “Shortlist” column, and she praised Chai’s “remarkable skill for building tension, masterfully arranging all the pieces on the board to hook the reader.”
The Book Review’s “Newly Published” feature on September 18 highlighted Love in Defiance of Pain, a “fiction anthology [that] collects stories by some of Ukraine’s most eminent writers.” Also in the piece was Sung Mi Kim’s “masterly” Say Hello?, translated by Claire Richards: “For shy children, or anyone apprehensive when navigating new situations, this picture book about missed opportunities to greet one another is a must.”
Lastly, set to appear as a “Newly Published” pick this Sunday is Try Not to Be Strange, a “combination literary history, travelogue and cautionary tale” by Michael Hingston that ”tells the history of the formerly uninhabited Caribbean island of Redonda.”
Say Hello?
by Sung Mi Kim, trans. Clare Richards
Berbay Publishing • September 2022 • 9781922610492
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Sept. 27.
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★ “A powerful exploration of the importance of the body when addressing generational trauma, social justice, and unfinished histories.”—Library Journal
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★ “These off-kilter tales and tableaux balance the humorous and the serious, the macabre and the sweet, offering much beauty and endlessly startling turns to be explored.”—Publishers Weekly
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★ “These questioning, funny, and deeply humane poems pack a fantastic punch.”—Publishers Weekly
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★ “Searing and sensitive . . . To hold these volumes together is to have proof of Graham’s unmatched powers and to reckon with the resilience the present age demands.”—Publishers Weekly
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★ “A mix of on-the-go footprints tell a quietly adventuresome story across a captivating winter landscape.”—Publishers Weekly
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New Digital Review Copies
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“A career best, a reminder of how unusually hopeful and buoyant Meno has remained all this time. It’s a charmer and a breakthrough.”—Chicago Tribune
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On September 19, Publishers Weekly’s story on rockers-turned-publishers featured Johnny Temple of Akashic Books, Chet Weise of Third Man Books, and Christoph Paul of CLASH Books.
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On September 19, a story in the Los Angeles Review of Books about translators breaking barriers in the publishing industry called attention to the ways in which Transit Books and Deep Vellum Publishing advocate for literary translation.
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A ballet based on the collection of poems LUCY NEGRO, REDUX by Caroline Randall Williams (Third Man Books) premiered on PBS on September 16.
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Face: One Square Foot of Skin by Justine Bateman (Akashic Books, now available in paperback) is being adapted into a feature film written and produced by Bateman and starring Mary-Louise Parker, per Deadline.
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