Hot News This Week
July 27, 2023

“Resisting the erasure of Black women’s encounters with the police requires an intersectional way of seeing the causes and consequences of police brutality.” Read Kimberlé Crenshaw’s Los Angeles Time op-ed published on July 21, and watch her recent interview with MSNBC’s Velshi about her new book #SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of State Violence and Public Silence (Haymarket Books), the imperative of the #SayHerName movement, and the growing threats of restricting Black history.

Bookseller Buzz

Emerald Wounds: Selected Poems (Bilingual edition)
by Joyce Mansour, trans. Emilie Moorhouse
City Lights Publishers • July 2023 • 9780872869011

“Sparse and elegant . . . shot through with blood and violence, and a fierce sexuality borne of a life veined with loss and exile.” — Susan Norton, Carmichael’s Bookstore (Louisville, KY)

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Insha Allah
by Sara Cheikh
Feral House • June 2023 • 9781627311397

“Short, informative, relevant and intriguing all the way through!” — Jack Kalil, Solid State Books (Washington, DC)

Hot News

Read This Next: a Classic Spy Story

The Man in the Corduroy Suit by James Wolff received a nice write-up in the Wall Street Journal on July 21. A “whimsical, inventive and shape-shifting book,” writes critic Tom Nolan in the piece, “The Man in the Corduroy Suit reads like a classic spy story shaped by what Graham Greene called the ‘human factor.’” Wolff’s novel, which New York Times Book Review crime fiction columnist Sarah Weinman says “establishes him as a memorable voice in the genre,” was a recent NYTBR Editors’ Choice pick, and Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review.

The Man in the Corduroy Suit
by James Wolff
Bitter Lemon Press • June 2023 • 9781913394844

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Starred Reviews

Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner
by Robert Boyers
Mandel Vilar Press • September 2023 • 9781942134886

★ “At once high-minded and gossipy . . . A nimble, eminently readable tribute to a pair of literary giants who weren’t shy of calling themselves such.” — Kirkus Reviews

OKPsyche
by Anya Johanna DeNiro
Small Beer Press • September 2023 • 9781618732088

★ “A story told through weird, ghostly, haunting fantasy. Fans of enigmatic speculative fiction like Our Wives Under the Sea . . . will enjoy this tale of queer parenthood, of the reality of the sharp fear of trans lives, and of complicated self-discovery.” — Booklist

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Fugue and Strike
by Joe Hall
Black Ocean • April 2023 • 9781939568670

“[Fugue and Strike] hums and hollers with filth and eros, with the wasting heap of capitalism.” — Boston Globe

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Sleeper of the Week

Head above Water: Reflections on Illness
by Shahd Alshammari
Feminist Press • July 2023 • 9781952177071

★ “An intimate and layered portrait of disabled womanhood.” — Kirkus Reviews

Plus coverage by:
Brooklyn Rail • USA Today • World Literature Today • Book Riot • Ms. Magazine • CLMP • Electric Literature • Arabology

News in Brief

On Tuesday, Shelf Awareness featured the book trailer for I Will Swim Next Time by Emily Joof, illustrated by Matilda Ruta (Floris Books).

A conversation between Enchanted Lion author-illustrators Leah Hayes (I Touched the Sun) and Balint Zsako (Bunny & Tree) ran in Shelf Awareness on July 21.

Awards

Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones (Coffee House Press) is the winner of the 2023 Ohioana Award for poetry.

Lookout by Christine Byl (Deep Vellum / A Strange Object) is longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s 2023 First Novel Prize.

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