Hot News This Week
August 10, 2023
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Look out this fall for Kingsolver’s debut children’s book, Coyote’s Wild Home (Gryphon Press), a celebration of wildlife and Appalachia.
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“Hazel is a girl after my own heart, one who loves Fall and all its frights, a girl who devours books about creatures, and listens for the howls in the dead of the night.” — Kate Towery, Fountain Bookstore (Richmond, VA)
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“I loved Anemone is Not the Enemy but I think I love this even more! The clever text and colorful illustrations lead to a hilarious pay off at the end.” — Brooke Williams, Bookends & Beginnings (Evanston, IL)
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| “A Centuries-Long Manhunt Stretches Across Mexico and Beyond” in Not Even the Dead
A full review of Not Even the Dead is set to run in this weekend’s New York Times Book Review. “We’ll never know what the late Cormac McCarthy might have thought of Juan Gómez Bárcena’s Not Even the Dead, but I wager that the novel would have appealed to him, and also to Roberto Bolaño and Joseph Conrad,” writes author Randy Boyagoda (Dante’s Inferno, Biblioasis) in the piece. “Splendidly translated by Katie Whittemore,” the novel “begins like a Borgesian fable” and “what follows is a confidently convoluted, transhistorical chronicle told through the experiences of two men: Juan de Toñanes, a humdrum ex-conquistador keeping a tavern in Spanish-ruled 16th-century Mexico, and Juan the Indian, a charismatic, missionary-taught Indigenous man causing trouble for church and state alike.”
Not Even the Dead
by Juan Goméz Barcena, trans. Katie Whittemore
Open Letter • July 2023 • 9781948830676
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★ “The genius of this book is to capture the exact way a familiar world of aging parents and divorcing friends and nice charcuterie platters could go right around the bend.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “Literature at the highest level: heartrending, disquieting, fascinating. . . . If there were any literary justice, [Jarman] would be much better known in the US.” — Kirkus Reviews
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| | Savage Her Reply
by Deirdre Sullivan, illus. Karen Vaughan
Little Island Books • October 2023 • 9781912417674
★ “Through masterful storytelling and stunning prose, Sullivan turns an ancient legend into something complex, transforming a one-note character into a nuanced narrator who carefully weaves Irish legend with a subtly searing condemnation of patriarchal society.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “Hugo and Nebula award winner Johnson returns with 14 dazzling speculative shorts. . . . These boundary-pushing, magic-infused tales are sure to wow.” — Publishers Weekly
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“The baby-faced photos of current legends are fun, but the book’s tone of fascination and how the sausage is made provides a compelling account of how improv is crafted, and how Boom Chicago’s approach informed so much of its participants’ later work.” — Vulture
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“Formally speaking, Ype Driessen’s The Last Gay Man on Earth may be the most unusual comic of the summer. Some of the book’s most charming sections document his attempts to create comics, but he’s equally funny when he’s crafting other images.” — Washington Post
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| New Digital Review Copies
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A Little Luck
by Claudia Piñeiro, trans. Frances Riddle
Charco Press • July 2023 • 9781913867553
“A sensitively told story of regret, reunion, and the road to redemption. With a little luck, this novel reaches you at just the right time like it did me.” — Luis Correa, Avid Bookshop (Athens, GA)
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Tamara Faith Berger, author of Yara (Coach House Books), wrote a recent essay for Literary Hub about contemporary sex writing and the “idiotic erotic.”
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AIGA named Accra Shepp’s Radical Justice (Convoke) one of the 50 best-designed books and book covers from last year.
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