Hot News This Week
May 11, 2023
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| | Atomic Family
by Ciera Horton McElroy
Blair • February 2023 • 9781949467949
“Atomic Family will immerse you in the Cold War of the 1960s, when nuclear raid bunkers were as common as nuclear raid drills. . . . Fallout is inevitable. Hairs on your neck will rise.” — Kay Wosewick, Boswell Book Company (Milwaukee, WI)
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“Cosmic horror at its most gay [and] at its most horrifying. LaRocca creates something truly evil here that you’ll want to keep revisiting even in your dreams.” — Noah Willette, Trident Booksellers & Cafe (Boston, MA)
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| Pulitzer Ties: Hernan Diaz and Barbara Kingsolver
In other Pulitzer news, we wanted to give a special shoutout to this year’s two fiction winners, Hernan Diaz and Barbara Kingsolver. Diaz’s debut novel, In the Distance, was published by Coffee House Press, and it was named a Pulitzer finalist in 2018. In October, Gryphon Press will be publishing a children’s book by Kingsolver, Coyote’s Wild Home, co-written with Lily Kingsolver and illustrated by Paul Mirocha.
In the Distance
by Hernan Diaz
Coffee House Press • October 2017 • 9781566894883
Coyote’s Wild Home
by Barbara Kingsolver and Lily Kingsolver, illus. Paul Mirocha
Gryphon Press • October 2023 • 9780940719484
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| Read This Next: Thomas Melle’s “Blackly Funny” Memoir
The New York Times Book Review recently ran full review of Thomas Melle’s The World at My Back, an “illuminating memoir” that “recounts three prolonged manic episodes and their painful aftermaths.” According to writer Rob Doyle in the piece, “What makes Melle’s stand out is that he seems aware of how blackly funny the intimate details of psychotic breakdown can be. His narrative skill, in Luise von Flotow’s translation, had me laughing out loud without my losing sight of the sorrow and loneliness behind the succession of outrageous incidents.”
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| Coming This Fall: The White Stripes Complete Lyrics
As reported this month by Pitchfork, Third Man Books has announced the October release of The White Stripes Complete Lyrics by Jack White. This definitive collection of original lyrics written for the White Stripes will also feature never-before-seen photos, rough drafts, and alternate lyrics, plus essays by Hanif Abdurraqib, Ben Blackwell, and Caroline Randall Williams.
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★ “Dazzling . . . Mari delivers trenchant satires of nostalgia with deadpan grace and wit, resulting in stories that are as heartfelt as they are humorous, with great care given to descriptions of the characters’ foibles and idiosyncrasies. This is not to be missed.” — Publishers Weekly
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“Exciting and bracing . . . Gopegui issues an intellectual challenge to Google, and to her readers. What, she asks, do we know that AI cannot—and is it too late to start valuing that knowledge more?” — NPR.org
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“Constantine is an entertaining storyteller with an eye to detail that serves him well as both a translator and a novelist.” — Asian Review of Books
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| | Solenoid
by Mircea Cartarescu, trans. Sean Cotter
Deep Vellum Publishing • October 2022 • 9781646052028
“Cărtărescu is constantly resisting speed, never succumbing to rapid summary. . . . There’s a stubborn tenderness at its heart.” — n+1
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“The master of Black horror . . . Due excels at twist endings but also brilliantly creates an atmosphere of creeping dread in which you know something terrible is coming.” — Washington Post
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