Hot News This Week
November 9, 2023
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| Four titles from Consortium publishers are among Publishers Weekly’s Best Books 2023 selections. Congrats, all!
Poetry: To 2040 by Jorie Graham (Copper Canyon Press)
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| | Wild Grace: Poems
by Chelan Harkin
Monkfish Book Publishing • November 2023 • 9781958972120
“Harkin’s poems are spiritual, nurturing, freeing, and feminist. . . . I inhaled this collection at the end of a day that marked a difficult anniversary and I went to bed feeling better, loved, and lighter.” — Jen Wills Geraedts, Beagle and Wolf Books & Bindery (Park Rapids, MN)
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“These poems are striking, honest, and sobering, and having stood in the heart of some of these intersections, I found resonance here.” — Terra Oliveira, Copperfield’s Books (CA)
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| TCG Launches Program to Expand and Diversify Drama Collections
As reported by American Theatre and Broadway World, Theatre Communications Group recently launched Plays for the People: In the Stacks, a program to increase access to dramatic literature for a significant number of individuals by expanding and diversifying drama collections. TCG, with funding from the Mellon Foundation, will provide $25,000 total in book credits for libraries, educational institutions, and cultural centers to expand their drama collections with titles published by TCG Books. Learn more about the program and application process here.
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| How to Build a Boat is “Reminiscent of an Early Nicholson Baker Novel”
How to Build a Boat, Elaine Feeney’s Booker-longlisted book, received a full review from the New York Times Book Review on November 5, and it was also featured in the Book Review’s November preview. In the “atmospheric” novel, writes Sophie Ward in the review, “Feeney’s prose is both careful and relaxed,” and the protagonist’s speech “spills forth in bursts of information and feelings, reminiscent of an early Nicholson Baker novel or Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport.” Elsewhere, How to Build a Boat has seen strong reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Shelf Awareness, TLS, Financial Times, and more.
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| Troublemaker for Justice Co-authors on Bayard Rustin’s Legacy
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Nov. 14.
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★ “In this magnificently researched and crafted historical fiction, Truong explores the conflict between art and war through the little-known story of the Việt Minh’s armed propaganda artists. . . . This is a Vietnam war story like no other.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | Bad Medicine
by Christopher Twin
Conundrum / EMANATA • October 2023 • 9781772620870
★ “Perfect campfire fodder; each storyteller tries to one-up the other, weaving Cree folklore with the reality of Indigenous life. . . . Twin delivers a set of stories perfect for graphic novel collections and horror readers.” — School Library Journal
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| | Forgetting
by Frederika Amalia Finkelstein, trans. Isabel Cout and Christopher Elson
Deep Vellum Publishing • November 2023 • 9781646052264
★ “Slim but impactful, this is a must-read. . . . Finkelstein’s fascinating English-language debut chronicles a 20-something woman grappling with intergenerational trauma in 2010s France.” — Publishers Weekly
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“Hays, who decided to write under a pen name to protect her family’s privacy, begins her epistolary book with a knock at the door from government officials investigating the decision to raise her daughter as a girl and ends with a declaration—‘my love for you is riotous.’” — New York Times Book Review
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“Each of the 40 phenomena is accompanied by a handful of factoids and a small map to show where it was found, but prime of place goes to Adam Wolf’s satisfyingly melodramatic illustrations.” — Wall Street Journal
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| | Brian
by Jeremy Cooper
Fitzcarraldo Editions • November 2023 • 9781804270363
“Cooper has given us a kind and tender portrait of a mind engaged with art, to some extent rescued by art, though Brian has no pretensions to being anything other than a lover of film.” — New York Review of Books
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“The most casual reader of science fiction, young or old, can snuggle cozily into the arms of this novel. . . . [Forde] had this reader disturbed in a delightful way.” — New York Times Book Review
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| New Digital Review Copies
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“A coming-of-age story that has a lot to teach readers and will appeal to adults and teens alike.” — Booklist
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On October 31, author Deirdre Sullivan was interviewed about her book Savage Her Reply (Little Island Books) on the Fully Booked podcast from Kirkus Reviews.
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NAIBA Bestseller
A Shining
by Jon Fosse, trans. Damion Searls
Transit Books • October 2023 • 9781945492778
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