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December 8, 2022
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After a student-planned event with Angela Davis was canceled over a rightwing outcry in Rockland County, NY, a coalition of organizers, including Haymarket Books and the NAACP, put together a replacement appearance for the community. The event took place last week, and Davis spoke to several hundred attendees and signed copies of her autobiography. Watch her speech here and learn more via the Journal News and Democracy Now!.
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| | Cry Perfume
by Sadie Dupuis
Black Ocean October 2022 • 9781939568625
“I adored this book. . . . Pound for pound, this collection has some of the best poetry titles I’ve ever heard in my life.”—Nathan, Two Dollar Radio Headquarters (Columbus, OH)
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Best Children’s Books and Historical Fiction of 2022
The New York Times Book Review’s best of the year coverage continues with recommendations for three more titles from Consortium publishers.
The bilingual picture book edition of Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions, illustrated by Paloma Valdivia and translated by Sara Lissa Paulsont, is among the Times’s best children books of 2022, selected by editor Jennifer Krauss.
The Book Reviews’s best historical fiction picks for 2022 include The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali by Uzma Aslam Khan and The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr, the latter of which was also written up in last weekend’s print NYTBR. “I couldn’t help imagining what a film Wes Anderson might make of Suzette Mayr’s The Sleeping Car Porter,” says Alida Becker in the piece.
Book of Questions
by Pablo Neruda, illus. Paloma Valdivia, trans. Sara Lissa Paulson
Enchanted Lion Books • April 2022 • 9781592703227
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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:
Tor.com, “Reviewers’ Choice: Best Books of 2022”
- Canción by Eduardo Halfon, trans. Lisa Dillman & Daniel Hahn (Bellevue Literary Press)
- Seasons of Purgatory by Shahriar Mandanipour, trans. Sarah Khalili (Bellevue Literary Press)
- Dislocations by Sylvia Molloy, trans. Jennifer Croft (Charco Press)
- Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda, trans. Sarah Booker (Coffee House Press)
- Love in Defiance of Pain: Ukrainian Stories, ed. Ali Kinsella, Zenia Tompkins & Ross Ufberg, trans. various (Deep Vellum Publishing)
- Offended Sensibilities by Alisa Ganieva, trans. Carol Apollonio (Deep Vellum Publishing)
- The Shehnai Virtuoso by Dhumketu, trans. Jenny Bhatt (Deep Vellum Publishing)
- Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, trans. Sean Cotter (Deep Vellum Publishing)
- Quake by Auður Jónsdóttir, trans. Meg Matich (Dottir Press)
- Violets by Kyung-sook Shin, trans. Anton Hur (Feminist Press)
- What Have You Left Behind? By Bushra al-Maqtari, trans. Sawad Hussain (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
- My Manservant and Me by Hervé Guibert, trans. Jeffrey Zuckerman (Nightboat Books)
- Roosters Crow, Dogs Cry by Wojciech Tochman, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Open Letter)
- Fever by Jonathan Bazzi, trans. Alice Whitmore (Scribe)
- The Lisbon Syndrome by Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles, trans. Paul Filev (Turtle Point Press)
- Cocoon by Zhang Yueran, trans. Jeremy Tiang (World Editions)
- The Leash and the Ball by Rodaan Al Galidi, trans. Jonathan Reeder (World Editions)
- Solo Dance by Li Kotomi, trans. Arthur Reiji Morris (World Editions)
- Tideline by Krystyna Dąbrowska, trans. Karen Kovacik, Antonia Lloyd-Jones & Mira Rosenthal (Zephyr Press)
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Dec. 13.
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★ “An excellent addition to any science collection, Danielsson’s book serves as an exceptional ingress into the universe of theoretical physics.”—Library Journal
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| | Trouble
by Katja Ivar
Bitter Lemon Press • February 2023 • 9781913394776
★ “Stellar . . . Ivar balances the complex plotlines perfectly. Fans of multifaceted female leads will be riveted.”—Publishers Weekly
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| | Atomic Family
by Ciera Horton McElroy
Blair • February 2023 • 9781949467949
★ “McElroy’s powerful debut evokes the atmosphere of early 1960’s American Cold War anxiety with the tragic story of a family living near a South Carolina bomb plant.”—Publishers Weekly
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★ “Taking a walk with Rosa and Benji just might change how readers see the world and everyone’s place in it. Highly recommended for graphic novel collections.”—School Library Journal
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| | You Can't Kill Snow White
by Beatrice Alemagna, trans. Karin Snelson and Emilie Robert Wong
Enchanted Lion / Unruly • October 2022 • 9781592703814
★ “If there is but one fairy-tale purchase in the budget this year, this one deserves attention. Alemagna is inventive and enthralling.”—School Library Journal
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“[A] strong story . . . The Perfume Burned His Eyes is a deft debut with a poignant epilogue.”—PopMatters
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| | The Endless Rose
by Carlos Maleno, trans. Eric Kurtzke
Dalkey Archive Press • December 2022 • 9781628973174
“After her manuscript is accepted, a woman with one leg visits two friends who run a small publishing house in the south of Spain, inciting a series of bizarre and unsettling experiences bearing an uncanny resemblance to events in her book.”—New York Times Book Review
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“Witty and ironical . . . The femme fatale in Alta Ifland’s likably offbeat Speaking to No. 4 is Alma, who has skipped out on her fiancé for parts unknown.”—Wall Street Journal
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“In A Queen in Bucks County, Kay Gabriel finds a connection between trans femininity and modernism as she documents one person’s winding journey from suburb to city.”—The Nation
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“This first biography of the late British writer is a textured portrait brimming with details of Morris’s life and work, from being the only journalist to join the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 to her gender transition in the late 1960s.”—New York Times Book Review
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| | Cocoon
by Zhang Yueran, trans. Jeremy Tiang
World Editions • October 2022 • 9781642861051
“In this multilayered novel about the sins and traumas of China’s past, two childhood friends reunite in their provincial home town after years apart.”—New Yorker
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“An extraordinary and wonderful book.”—Tina Wyatt, great-great-great grandniece of Harriet Tubman
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As reported in the New York Times, James Ijames’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fat Ham (Theatre Communications Group) is set for a Broadway debut at the American Airlines Theater in March 2023.
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On December 7, Jason Guriel, author of On Browsing (Biblioasis), wrote a piece for The Atlantic about the tactile joy of IRL gift buying.
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On Browsing
by Jason Guriel
Biblioasis • November 2022 • 9781771965101
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