Hot News This Week
October 20, 2022
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According to a recent New York Times profile, actress Cate Blanchett is working with director Katie Mitchell on a stage adaptation of Lucy Ellmann’s acclaimed novel Ducks, Newburyport, published by Biblioasis (which is also rereleasing Ellmann’s novel Man or Mango? next month), and we can’t wait to see “how Blanchett and Mitchell plan to turn a 426,100-word sentence into a theatrical production,” as Literary Hub puts it.
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“Anne Carson is one of the great minds of our generation. . . . If you’re heartbroken, or have ever been heartbroken, and you want new language for it, that’s what this book feels like to me.”—Riley Rennhack, Deep Vellum Books (Dallas, TX), via MPR News
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Jorie Graham’s Omnibus is an Editors’ Choice Pick in the New York Times Book Review
[To] The Last [Be] Human by Jorie Graham is a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice pick! The selection will appear in the forthcoming October 30 issue, and the NYTBR’s full review of Graham’s omnibus will run in this weekend’s print edition. “Graham’s great subject since her first book was published, in 1980,” writes Times poetry columnist Elisa Gabbert, “has always been and continues to be human consciousness, the manifold and many-folded self. The vastness of mind contained within the fragile column of the body.”
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Read This Next: Robin McLean’s “Taut and Propulsive” Stories
Get ’Em Young, Treat ’Em Tough, Tell ’Em Nothing by Robin McLean received a glowing full review in the New York Times Book Review on October 15. In reading McLean’s “taut and propulsive” collection of stories, writer Aimee Bender says in the piece, “there is a curious solace in settling into a worldview by a writer who so refuses to unsharpen her vision, whose investment is in the clarity and freshness of the imagery and an honest portrayal of our craven impulses.” Get ’Em Young, Treat ’Em Tough, Tell ’Em Nothing was a most-anticipated 2022 pick for Literary Hub and The Millions and has received strong reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly, plus more press is on the horizon.
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“Rich with dreams and ghosts, Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes’s Are We Ever Our Own follows descendants of a Cuban family to America and beyond.”—Washington Post
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“[The anthology’s] contributors suggest, in various ways, that the monster’s perspective isn’t just legitimate, but maybe even morally superior.”—The Atlantic
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“Unbelievable, spellbinding, and impressively researched . . . with moxie and enthusiasm aplenty.”—Jeremy Garber, Powell’s Books (Portland, OR)
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