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January 26, 2023
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“This book is honest, very funny and like all of Stewart's work, it holds both a tender vulnerability while also deeply, truly not giving a f*ck what you think. Perfect.”—Liz Freeman, East Bay Booksellers (Oakland, CA)
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Two Major Reviews for The Birthday Party
Laurent Mauvignier’s The Birthday Party, a French psychological thriller translated by Daniel Levin Becker, landed two national reviews this week.
“The intensity of the writing lends a feeling of fierce suspense,” writes critic Sam Sacks in his review for the Wall Street Journal on January 20. “Mr. Mauvignier peels back those layers of reality in order to better grasp the people they finally form, a composite far more profound than the sum of its parts.” Then, in a piece for this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review, writer Martin Riker calls The Birthday Party “a real-time study in crippling self-consciousness, the fragility of normalcy, and the reality of violence,” and the novel will also appear as a NYTBR Editors’ Choice selection in the February 5 issue.
The Birthday Party
by Laurent Mauvignier, trans. Daniel Levin Becker
Transit Books • February 2023 • 9781945492655
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Consortium Titles Longlisted for the PEN Awards and Republic of Consciousness Prize
We’re thrilled to see a number of Consortium titles nominated for two major prizes!
On January 20, PEN America announced the longlists for their 2023 Literary Awards, including seven CBSD titles:
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Jan. 31.
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“Miller gives us 40 quick, digestible, and multidisciplinary scientific essays about the Greater Los Angeles area. He is an expert science writer and naturalist who draws fluently from biology, fire ecology, geology, hydrology, and oceanography.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
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| | No Windmills in Basra
by Diaa Jubaili, trans. Chip Rossetti
Deep Vellum Publishing • September 2022 • 9781646051861
“Engaging and highly inventive . . . [The] book offers an intriguing glimpse of an important and, for many English speakers, poorly understood part of the world.”—Christian Science Monitor
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New Digital Review Copies
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“Poignant, raw, and filled with compassion, Warrior Princesses Strike Back gives us an essential look into the historical and contemporary lives of Lakota women.”—Mark Ruffalo
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