Hot News This Week
April 4, 2024
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| American Mother is “one of the best books I’ve read in many, many years, if not in my life,” says Anderson Cooper.
On Monday, co-authors Colum McCann and Diane Foley were joined by musician Sting for a wide-ranging interview on Anderson Cooper 360 about forgiveness, faith, and James Foley’s remarkable legacy. Watch their in-depth conversation with Cooper here.
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“Punctuated with moments of immense sadness and longing, Heather Frese has written a beautiful book that is perfect for that sad girl summer.” — Kyle Churman, Werner Books (Erie, PA)
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“CAConrad has gifted us again with another evocative collection of their (Soma)tic poetry that I already cherish. Each poem is inventive and they flow from one to another, critiquing the wrongs of humanity while maintaining an optimism for the goodness nature provides.” — Molly Duplaga, Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)
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| Read This Next: Traces of Enayat
On Tuesday, the New York Times featured a story on Iman Mersal and her new book, Traces of Enayat, translated by Robin Moger. The piece describes how Mersal discovered a mysterious novel in a Cairo market, a finding that launched her 30-year quest to learn more about its author, Enayat al-Zayyat, an overlooked Egyptian writer who died by suicide in the 1960s. With Traces of Enayat, “My dream was to tell our story, my story, her story, this interaction between us,” says Mersal. “The past is not that glorious. It’s the collective and individual wounds of this past.”
Traces of Enayat
by Iman Mersal, trans. Robin Moger
Transit Books • April 2024 • 9781945492846
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| Remembering Maryse Condé and John Barth
Condé, a “grand dame” of French-language literature, was 90. Her award-winning work, most recently published in the US by World Editions, centered Caribbean life and the Black diaspora, and she was long considered a major Nobel Prize contender.
Barth, an acclaimed postmodernist, was 93. His innovative novels helped redefine American fiction in the second half of the 20th century, and several have been reissued by Dalkey Archive Press, which also published his final book in 2022.
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, April 9.
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| | Tongueless
by Lau Yee-Wa, trans. Jennifer Feeley
Feminist Press • June 2024 • 9781558613188
★ “A taut, chilling novel about the weaponization of language as a tool of oppression.” — Kirkus Reviews
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| | Takaoka's Travels
by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, trans. David Boyd
Stone Bridge / MONKEY • May 2024 • 9798988688709
★ “ In the ninth century, a Japanese prince-turned-monk sets off with companions on a journey to Hindustan (India), the center of Buddhism. . . . An arresting novel that readers will cherish.” — Library Journal
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| | The Egg Incident
by Ziggy Hanaor, illus. Daisy Wynter
Cicada Books • April 2024 • 9781800660434
“This short graphic novel is a fast-paced read, thanks in large part to Daisy Wynter’s dynamic illustrations. Motion lines, hand-lettered sounds and dramatic page turns are used to great effect. And kids will get a kick out of Humphrey’s expressive reaction shots.” — New York Times Book Review
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“[Holmes’s] prose radiates empathy, with none of the artificial distance that journalists or academics enforce between themselves and their subjects.The result is firsthand stories of women whose lives were ruined—or, at least, whose life savings were emptied—because they had the audacity to desire love.” — Washington Post
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| New Digital Review Copies
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The Villain’s Dance
by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, trans. Roland Glasser
Deep Vellum Publishing • February 2024 • 9781646051274
“Mujila’s frenetic energy is captured in rapturous language by Roland Glasser, translating from the French.” — New York Times Book Review
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All six episodes of the documentary series based on Howard Suber’s The Power of Film (Michael Wiese Productions) will re-air on TCM on April 10.
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