Hot News This Week
August 29, 2024
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| Loving Corrections by New York Times best-selling author adrienne maree brown is “an antidote to the shame-based discourse that social media has boosted,” according to The Cut, which ran an interview with brown today. AK Press published the book last week, and it’s a bestseller for the ABA, NCIBA, PNBA, and Bookshop.org.
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| The Notebook Is an “Adventurous” History and a “Perfect” Holiday Gift
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen received a glowing review in the Wall Street Journal on August 23. “Informative and uplifting, The Notebook may leave you feeling that you should chuck away your smartphone, pick up a nice, clean journal and start jotting,” writes WSJ editor Meghan Cox Gurdon, praising it as “an adventurous and wide-ranging history of ‘thinking on paper.’”
Kirkus Reviews gave The Notebook a starred review and named it a most anticipated book for fall, and Allen recently appeared on Ryan Holiday’s popular Daily Stoic podcast to talk about how notebooks changed the world. Bookseller Laurel Rhame of Phoenix Books (Vermont) also recommended it in Publishers Weekly’s fall indie books issue: “I can already tell this is going to be my big gift book for the holiday season. It’s perfect for the writers, artists, or engineers in your life. And of course for the history buffs.”
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“I Don’t Want To Be Understood is existence as resistance. It dreams of a world free of fixed labels, chronicling the nuance and complexity of trans experience and erasure.” — Wroxanna Work, Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)
“Espinoza’s writing emulates a perfect balance between beauty and strength.” — Emma Fong, Books Inc. (San Leandro, CA)
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| | The Butterfly's Burden
by Mahmoud Darwish, trans. Fady Joudah
Copper Canyon Press • January 2007 • 9781556592416
“I would also like to recommend a poetry collection, The Butterfly’s Burden, by the late Palestinian poet and activist Mahmoud Darwish (Copper Canyon, translated by Fady Joudah). . . . I have made an effort to read a little bit from this collection each morning. Starting the day with Darwish’s impassioned hope, beautiful lyricism, and meditations on profound loss has become a powerful part of my morning.” — Sarah, Three Lives & Company (New York, NY)
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“Collins finds love hidden in more guises than we can imagine. These stories are scary and scandalous, ridiculous and real. After my time in Collins’s worlds, I see our world, with all its strange love and hopeful despair, in brighter, bolder light.” — Emma Aprile, Carmichael’s Bookstore (Louisville, KY)
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“Toosi has quickly become one of my favorite contemporary playwrights. These two works about life in Iran are beautiful, compelling, funny, and brilliant. Not to be missed.” — Suzanna Hermans, Oblong Books (Millerton, NY)
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“[The Body Harvest] follows two outcasts, Olivia and Will, who are addicted to the feeling of sickness, going to more and more extreme lengths to contract diseases. . . . With tight, accessible writing, Seidlinger peels away the skin of his characters and shows us the rot beneath.” — Charlie Marks, Fountain Bookstore (Richmond, VA)
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On Wednesday, physician and photographer Greg Gulbransen appeared on NBC News to discuss his book, Say Less (Global Book Sales / GOST), which bears witness to the impact of gun violence in America.
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ABA, NCIBA, PNBA, and Bookshop.org Bestseller
Loving Corrections
by adrienne maree brown
AK Press • August 2024 • 9781849355544
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