Hot News This Week
August 1, 2024
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On July 28, reporter Amanda Holpuch wrote a piece about Dynamite Nashville’s publication prompting Nashville police to reopen investigations into the three Civil Rights-era bombings examined in Phillips’s book.
And on July 24, writer Margaret Renkl covered the book in an opinion essay: “This book astonished me. Dynamite Nashville is rigorously researched and reported. . . . [It] brings history into the present moment in a visceral way.”
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I Am a Potato!
by Ziggy Hanaor, illus. Elliot Kruszynski
Cicada Books • September 2024 • 9781800660519
“Absolutely hilarious! Mouse is a perfect ‘born yesterday’ character. . . . Kids are going to LOVE talking back to this book!” — Katie Schaefer, Betty’s Books (Webster Grove, MO)
“What a cute way to describe figuring out who you are! A little mouse thinks they are a potato and with the help of other animals [and] by asking questions they learn what they are.” — Beth Menendez, A Likely Story Bookstore (Sykesville, MD)
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Gifted
by Suzuki Suzumi, trans. Allison Markin Powell
Transit Books • October 2024 • 9798893389005
“A gleaming pocket knife of a novel stabbing into the heart of maternal abuse, inherited trauma, and the cyclical nature of sex work.” — Mathuson Anthony, Book Club Bar (New York City, NY)
“Explores a fascinating Japanese subculture missing from the many translated novels we’ve seen recently from Japanese authors. That the novel and protagonist are based on the author’s own life gives Gifted an added layer of interest.” — Grace Sullivan, Fountain Bookstore (Richmond, VA)
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| Read This Next: the “Sage Advice” in Abolition Labor
Abolition Labor: The Fight to End Prison Slavery was reviewed in the New Yorker by Adam Gopnik for the magazine’s July 29 issue. “Abolition Labor: The Fight to End Prison Slavery, a new collection by Andrew Ross, Tommaso Bardelli, and Aiyuba Thomas, offers sage advice from long-term prisoners on the closed circles of long-term imprisonment,” writes Gopnik. Learn more about the book from the authors’ New York Times op-ed and appearance on NY1 Spectrum News.
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| | What I Know About You
by Éric Chacour, trans. Pablo Strauss
Coach House Books • September 2024 • 9781552454855
★ “Chacour’s exceptional restraint in divulging information lets the tension build, carrying the book into the revelation of who is writing Tarek’s story. All the author’s formal risks result in well-earned rewards.” — Kirkus Reviews
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| | Fog & Car
by Eugene Lim
Coffee House Press • July 2024 • 9781566896931
★ “In his mesmerizing 2008 debut, which has long been out of print, novelist Lim makes an unforgettable, transformative journey. . . . The dark dreamlike veracity of Lim’s novel might be remindful of Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch, Murakami and Auster, but its moving and revelatory insights into the mysteries of human nature are wholly his own.” — Library Journal
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★ “Vitriolic, vulnerable, polemical and devastatingly funny, Russ’s uncompromising tour de force bristles with trenchant truth-telling that will make it a life-changing encounter for many readers. Essential.” — Library Journal
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| | Once Upon Argentina
by Andrés Neuman, trans. Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia
Open Letter • August 2024 • 9781960385116
★ “Argentine writer Neuman delivers a dazzling kaleidoscopic account of his personal and familial history. . . . This love letter to the author’s family and homeland transcends the personal and reaches the universal.” — Publishers Weekly
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“Beyond being simply a book about porn, Porn often feels like a frank account of some of the stranger, less-discussed elements of what it means to be a human in the internet age. . . . One of [Barton’s] skills as an interviewer is that she does not moralize at her subjects and avoids steering their answers.” — New Republic
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Takaoka's Travels
by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, trans. David Boyd
Stone Bridge / MONKEY • May 2024 • 9798988688709
“Takaoka’s Travels is a rich novel unlike almost anything else available in English translation from Japanese.” — Asian Review of Books
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On July 26, Deep Care by Angela Hume (AK Press) was featured on Publishers Weekly’s list of post-Roe books about abortion and American history.
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Michael Seidlinger, author of The Body Harvest (CLASH Books), wrote about the literature of obsession, addiction, and disease for CrimeReads on July 25.
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Short War by Lily King (Deep Vellum Publishing) and A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest by Charlie J. Stephens (Torrey House Press) are longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s 2024 First Novel Prize.
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