Hot News This Week
October 12, 2023
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Transit Books co-founders Adam and Ashley Levy are in the spotlight for bringing the works of Nobel laureate Jon Fosse to a broader US readership. “There are always a few daunting aspects of publishing a 700-page, single-sentence series of books about doppelgangers,” Adam tells the Los Angeles Times. “But this is exactly the kind of work we founded Transit Books to publish.”
Read the full interview for more on Transit’s bold publishing program and why Fosse’s forthcoming novel, A Shining, is “like if Beckett had written the ‘Pine Barrens’ episode of The Sopranos.”
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“Wonderful and accessible . . . Wes Anderson meets emotional maturity.” — Dominique Dizon, Second Star to the Right (Denver, CO)
“This may be my favorite book I read this year. . . . It is therapy within gorgeous, illustrated pages.” — Allie Cesmat, Changing Hands Bookstore (Tempe, AZ)
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“This is the story of a mouse with an insatiable hunger—one that can only be filled with the stories he finds in the pages of a bookshop! I adore the charming illustrations and use of color.” — Andrew King, Secret Garden Books (Seattle, WA)
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| Holiday Gift Guide Picks from Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly’s 2023 Holiday Gift Guide features several titles from Consortium publishers. Check out these PW editors’ recs for the holiday season:
- The Magicians by Blexbolex, trans. Karin Snelson (Enchanted Lion Books)
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Oct. 17.
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| | Trondheim
by Cormac James
Bellevue Literary Press • February 2024 • 9781954276239
★ “[An] extraordinary and meticulous little book. . . . When their son collapses, an unhappy couple travels to his bedside, leaving behind none of their exquisitely described marital baggage.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “The essays and mixed-media contributions will draw in book groups who dug into Evicted by Matthew Desmond, Nomadland by Jessica Bruder, and Sarah Smarsh’s Heartland.” — Booklist
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| | Standing Heavy
by Gauz', trans. Frank Wynne
Biblioasis • October 2023 • 9781771966009
“This shrewd, episodic novel stars the security guards of Paris. Specifically: Ferdinand, Ossiri and Kassoum, undocumented Ivorian immigrants whose watchful eyes examine Parisian turmoil over two generations.” — New York TImes Book Review
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★ “This dynamic collection is a vivid exploration of identity, creative expression, heartbreak, sex, and the sociopolitical experience of Black queerness.” — Booklist
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A recent Jewish Book Council reading list recommended Mare’s Nest by Holly Mitchell (Sarabande Books) for its “lilting meditation on parenting as a conduit for active choice.”
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Bookshop.org Bestseller
Septology
by Jon Fosse, trans. Damion Searls
Transit Books • November 2022 • 9781945492679 (HC)
see also 9781945492754 (TPB)
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