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May 18, 2023
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Ahead of the 2023 International Booker Prize ceremony next Tuesday, watch actors Adjoa Andoh (Bridgerton), Osy Ikhile (Citadel), and Michelle de Swarte (The Duchess) read excerpts of shortlisted novels from Consortium publishers:
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“This will warm the hearts of kids who loved checking out library books as much as I did.” — Nicole Brinkley, Oblong Books (Millerton, NY)
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“I cried almost the entire time while reading this book. Mostly from relief that I’m not alone. This book is needed, has been needed for generations. Disabled people live full lives. . . . This book proves it.” — Annie Carl, The Neverending Bookshop (Edmonds, WA)
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| Read This Next: Miquel de Palol’s “Devious and Thrilling” Mystery
On May 16, the New York Times Book Review published a full review of The Garden of Seven Twilights, Miquel de Palol’s “devious and thrilling” novel translated by Adrian Nathan West. “This intellectual mystery’s varied themes and tensile irony seem to exist outside of a specific time or genre,” writes critic Dustin Illingworth. “Science fiction, classic philosophy, futurism, high culture and pornography are sheathed in a verbose, nearly Jamesian elegance.” Read the full piece here.
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, May 23.
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“A striking nonfiction picture book . . . Using monotype and digital collage illustrations, oddly riveting with their daubs and smudges of color, Mr. Lam conjures the disparate ways of people who have not historically stayed put.” — Wall Street Journal
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“Liberal hypocrisy is furiously implicated in Israeli writer Agur Schiff’s Professor Schiff’s Guilt. . . . This shrewd masquerade has real bite.” — Wall Street Journal
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“‘NB’ might be loosely described as a gossip column for the erudite. . . . James Campbell made it into something more—a uniquely personal miscellany of wit, weirdness and waspish provocation. NB by J.C.—a selection of columns—highlights its singularity.” — Washington Post
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“Cold Nights of Childhood might be understood as a revenge on the convulsive therapy that robbed its author of much of her twenties. . . . Each sentence inhabits its own moment, pitched into the next by sheer wattage of verbal energy.” — 4Columns
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“Ms. Gopegui’s novel brilliantly steps into the middle of volatile and troubling debates about artificial intelligence. . . . This book has excited me more than any that I have read this year, as much for its tenderness as for its insights.” — Wall Street Journal
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Finalists for the CLMP’s 2023 Firecracker Awards include titles published by Coffee House Press, Deep Vellum Publishing, Fence Books, Feminist Press, Nightboat Books, and Wave Books.
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The 2023 Nautilus Book Award winners and honorees include titles published by Alice James Books, ATD Press, Monkfish Book Publishing, New Society Publishers, and Skinner House Books.
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