Hot News This Week
December 7, 2023
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| The New York Times Book Review’s best-of-the-year coverage continues with recommendations for three more titles from Consortium publishers.
María Fernanda Ampuero’s Human Sacrifices, translated by Frances Riddle (Feminist Press), is a best horror book of 2023: “Fast, fierce and relentlessly brutal, these 12 stories are the literary equivalent of a feminist death metal album,” says writer Gabino Iglesias.
A Long Time Dead (Bywater Books) is among the year’s best romance books: “A quicksilver voice and a balance of humor and brutality keep Samara Breger’s vampire historical . . . perpetually on my mind,” writes columnist Olivia Waite.
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| | Bad Foundations
by Brian Allen Carr
CLASH Books • January 2024 • 9781955904865
“It’s funny, and it’s sad, an irreverent, heartbreaking ode to all the unstable foundations upon which so many American lives are built.” — Chris Lee, Boswell Book Company (Milwaukee, WI)
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| Two Vox Future Perfect 50 Honorees
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| More Best Books of the Year
With year-end lists rolling in, we’re keeping tabs on books featured from Consortium publishers. Browse all 2023 coverage highlights, and check out what’s new this week:
- The Magicians by Blexbolex, trans. Karin Snelson (Enchanted Lion Books)
Slate, “The 10 Best Books of 2023”
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Dec. 12.
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| | The Visitors
by Jessi Jezewska Stevens
And Other Stories • February 2024 • 9781913505707
★ “Recall[s] the work of such 20th-century greats as DeLillo or Sebald, but Stevens’ voice—which is meticulous, wide ranging, and moored in a different perspective from the 20th century’s predominantly white male hegemonies—makes her work particularly suited for the current century’s artistic needs.” — Kirkus Reviews
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| | Love Novel
by Ivana Sajko, trans. Mima Simic
Biblioasis • February 2024 • 9781771965989
★ “A devastating book, humane, original, and deeply relevant. In this short novel by award-winning Croatian writer and theater director Sajko, a young couple struggles with parenthood, unemployment, and the anxieties of the historical moment.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “Exquisitely and carefully illustrated . . . this is a well-told and highly informative read. Highly recommended for young adult graphic novel and nonfiction collections.” — School Library Journal
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| | Master
by Simon Shieh
Sarabande Books • September 2023 • 9781956046212
★ “The phenomenal debut from Shieh is a stark and extraordinary investigation of a painful past, traversing the intricacies of violence and the journey toward healing.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | Antagony
by Luis Goytisolo, trans. Brendan Riley
Deep Vellum / Dalkey Archive • November 2022 • 9781628973983
“The narrative, in Brendan Riley’s translation, has a way of carrying the reader forward. At its best, the novel soars, using virtuoso imagery and bravura textures.” — Colm Tóibín, via New York Review of Books
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| | A Shining
by Jon Fosse, trans. Damion Searls
Transit Books • October 2023 • 9781945492778
“[Fosse’s] bracingly clear prose imbues the story’s ambiguities with a profundity both revelatory and familiar.” — New Yorker
“I think the great splendour of Fosse’s fiction is that it so deeply rejects any singular interpretation; as one reads, the story does not sound a clear singular note, but rather becomes a chord with all the many possible interpretations ringing out at once.” — Lauren Groff, via The Guardian
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| | The Shining
by Dorothea Lasky
Wave Books • October 2023 • 9781950268856
“Lasky has been heralded as a Gen-X successor to confessionalism, but in The Shining, she marries a more subdued exposition with her signature Plathian confrontation.” — Los Angeles Review of Books
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| New Digital Review Copies
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“The art in this memoir is truly breathtaking. At some points, it’s visceral and gorgeous, and at others, strikingly sweet.” — Ari Ray Agnew, Book Passage (Bay Area, CA)
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Casey Plett, author of On Community (Biblioasis), was interviewed on the Maris Review, Lit Hub’s podcast hosted by Maris Kreizman, on November 30.
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