Hot News This Week
March 21, 2024
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“Adorable . . . This story is really cute and sweet. The illustrations are funny as well!” — Brenna Adams, Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Cincinnati, OH)
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| | The Robbery
by Joaquín Camp
Berbay Publishing • May 2024 • 9781922610706
“Don’t worry, The Robbery will not turn readers toward a life of crime. Funny and charming, this story follows three little thieves who, while digging for treasure, end up in all sorts of ridiculous situations and learn an important lesson. Giggles will ensue!” — Mary Wahlmeier Bracciano, Raven Book Store (Lawrence, KS)
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| Celebrating Recent Poetry Prize Honorees
Ahead of National Poetry Month in April, we’re thrilled to see a wave of good awards news for Consortium poetry publishers.
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Also nominated for Publishing Triangle Awards in other categories are On Community by Casey Plett (Biblioasis) and BeatNikki’s Cafe by Renee James (Bywater / Amble Press), and Hilary Zaid, author of Paper is White (Bywater Books), is set to be honored with the Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award.
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, March 26.
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“Melissa Pritchard makes [Florence] Nightingale’s heroism even more intimate—and more interesting—by portraying her not as ‘some sweet, feminine savior’ but as a stubborn, tormented striver who spent her youth and early adulthood struggling to break free from the constraints of Victorian society.” — New York Times Book Review
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“An amnesiac pieces together his identity from strangers’ stories in this peripatetic Icelandic novel, translated by Philip Roughton, which unfolds from an awakening in a small rural church into a rich history of a whole community. Stefansson uses the drama and comedy of everyday lives to dive into a broad range of topics: philosophy, music, faith and even the science of earthworms.” — New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
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| | The Hebrew Teacher
by Maya Arad, trans. Jessica Cohen
New Vessel Press • March 2024 • 9781954404236
“Arad’s portraits of contemporary life achieve that rare balance between comedy and pathos, satire and empathy—often on the same page. The deeply affecting portrayals of various forms of estrangement, missed connections, and distances will likely linger in readers’ imaginations for a long time.” — Jewish Book Council
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| New Digital Review Copies
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How Dreadful!
by Claire Lebourg
Transit Books • February 2024 • 9781945492785
“I just want to have a tea party with all of these characters. Elegant and hilarious.” — Stu Luddecke, Second Star to the Right (Denver, CO)
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Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel (Coffee House Press) is featured on The Atlantic’s list of great American novels.
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Lonnie Mann, author of Gaytheist (Street Noise Books), was interviewed by author Lucy Knisley for the Comics Journal on March 11.
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City Lights Publishers is the winner of this year’s Republic of Consciousness Prize (US and Canada) for Ebru Ojen’s novel Lojman, translated from the Turkish by Aron Aji and Selin Gökçesu.
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