Hot News This Week
October 3, 2024
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- The Villain’s Dance by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, translated by Roland Glasser (Deep Vellum Publishing)
A huge congratulations to Deep Vellum, World Editions, and the authors and translators nominated! Winners will be announced on November 20.
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| Jeff VanderMeer on the “Erotic, Postapocalyptic Unease” of Dark Matter
In a recent piece for The Atlantic on “Five Books That Conjure Entirely New Worlds,” author Jeff VanderMeer recommends Aase Berg’s Dark Matter, translated by Johannes Goransson, which offers “the ultimate other world, created from broken pieces of our own.” It’s a “work of phantasmagorical, erotic, postapocalyptic unease by one of Sweden’s most important poets,” says VanderMeer. “Berg pulls in string theory, folklore, references to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and what appear to be H. R. Giger–esque flourishes, meshing them with a contaminated yet still powerful view of nature.”
Dark Matter
by Aase Berg, trans. Johannes Goransson
Black Ocean • March 2013 • 9780984475285
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“A quick and haunting read about crossing borders of all kinds: between the US and Mexico, and also across language, gender, and reality and other-worldliness.” — Molly Parent, Point Reyes Books (Point Reyes Station, CA)
“If you start highlighting what stuns you about Yuri Herrera’s debut novel in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, every page will be mottled with fluorescent lines.” — Josh Cook, Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA)
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| | Lesser Ruins
by Mark Haber
Coffee House Press • October 2024 • 9781566897198
“A generous book packed with humor and delivered in feverish prose. . . . A story well worth getting swept in its brooding undercurrent and relatable sadness.” — Thu Doan, East Bay Booksellers (Oakland, CA)
“I think Lesser Ruins is not only a great novel, but *the* great novel of intellectual anxiety. I used to say there are no American writers like Mark Haber. Now I’m not sure there are any writers like Haber, period.” — Spencer Ruchti, Third Place Books (Seattle, WA)
“A wickedly funny novel of obsession, Montaigne, coffee, art, smartphones, and electronic dance music. One of my favorite books of 2024!” — Caitlin Luce Baker, Island Books (Mercer Island, WA)
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| | Love Prodigal
by Traci Brimhall
Copper Canyon Press • November 2024 • 9781556597022
“Love Prodigal is a compendium of emotion, a reminder of the sheer beauty of small things, namely words, the tunes they play on the tongue. . . . These poems beg to be read aloud. This collection, like love, is a deepening of grooves; it carves us into new patterns, writing a new vocabulary to contain it.” — Wroxy Work, Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)
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| | Sunday
by Marcelo Tolentino
Blue Dot Kids Press • January 2025 • 9798989858811
★ “Readers will eagerly return again and again to get lost in Tolentino’s sumptuous landscapes. . . . Imaginative play has never been this exciting.” — Kirkus Reviews
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“Borzutzky portrays a consciousness totally infected by the technological, political and economic developments that have led to a world where a felon is running for president and we each spend hours every day entering our personal information into Meta’s database so they can sell it.” — New York Times Book Review
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| | The Sapling Cage
by Margaret Killjoy
Feminist Press • September 2024 • 9781558613317
“A subtle narrative that handles gender and identity with unusual grace. Not to mention, The Sapling Cage is a cracking good read, with excellent fight scenes and well-drawn villains. I can’t recommend this book highly enough.” — Washington Post
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“The narrator casually, and impressively, navigates Nigerian history, biblical allusion, mythology, and personal experience sometimes all in one poem. It is a testament to the mosaic of selfhood. It is absolutely divine.” — Matthew Buxton, Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)
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ABA Bestseller
Loving Corrections
by adrienne maree brown
AK Press • August 2024 • 9781849355544
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Selected by a committee of independent booksellers, three books from Consortium publishers are finalists for the 2024 Cercador Prize: Munir Hachemi’s Living Things, translated by Julia Sanches (Coach House Books); Eva Baltasar’s Mammoth, translated by Julia Sanches (And Other Stories); and Agustín Fernández Mallo’s The Book of All Loves, translated by Thomas Bunstead (Fitzcarraldo Editions).
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