Hot News This Week
November 30, 2023
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| We’re saddened by the loss of Charles T. Munger, legendary vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 99. The New York Times notes in their obituary that, as Warren E. Buffett’s partner and “maxim-spouting alter-ego,” Munger was “widely known for his witty common-sense maxims, so much so that they were called Mungerisms and collected in books, including Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger.”
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“Haunting and visceral, this memoir in verse perfectly captures what it is like to live on the margins of a society, illustrating the exquisite agony of discovering your identity and becoming your own person.” — Bethany Marsfelder, Northshire Bookstore (Manchester Center, VT)
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| A NYTBR Notable Book of 2023!
Read writer Randy Boyagoda’s Book Review piece on the novel from August, in which he notes, “We’ll never know what the late Cormac McCarthy might have thought of Juan Gómez Bárcena’s Not Even the Dead, but I wager that the novel would have appealed to him, and also to Roberto Bolaño and Joseph Conrad.”
Not Even the Dead
by Juan Goméz Barcena, trans. Katie Whittemore
Open Letter • July 2023 • 9781948830676
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| Poet Mosab Abu Toha Is Released by Israel
We were relieved to learn Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha was freed from Israeli detention last week, two days after he was taken by Israel’s military while fleeing central Gaza with his family.
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| Gift Recs from the Wall Street Journal
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| Best Books of the Year
With year-end lists rolling in, we’re keeping tabs on all the books featured from Consortium publishers. Browse more 2023 coverage highlights, and check out what’s new this week:
Kirkus Reviews
- El rebaño by Margarita del Mazo, illus. Guridi (NubeOcho)
- El sapo by Elise Gravel (NubeOcho)
- At the Drop of a Cat by Élise Fontenaille, illus. Violeta Lópiz, trans. Karin Snelson and Emilie Robert Wong (Enchanted Lion Books)
- Bunny & Tree by Balint Zsako (Enchanted Lion Books)
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Dec. 5.
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| | The Hunger of Women
by Marosia Castaldi, trans. Jamie Richards
And Other Stories • December 2023 • 9781913505868
★ “Exquisitely rendered in a poetic stream-of-consciousness that brims with lush descriptions of Rosa’s recipes, Castaldi’s novel is an ode to pleasure, culinary and otherwise. Stirring and vulnerable, this is not to be missed.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | Bird Life
by Anna Smaill
Scribe • January 2024 • 9781957363547
★ “Magic, mental illness, and sorrow drive this powerful offering . . . Smaill excels equally at emotional drama, magical realism, and horror. Readers will find much to love.” — Publishers Weekly
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| New Digital Review Copies
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“An important record of the secret history of how an eclectic gathering of women poets, musicians, community-based health care workers, grassroots activists, and visionary volunteers created underground abortion service provision in Oakland and fought to defend clinics as Roe v Wade was won and then eroded.” — Sarah Schulman
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Libby DeLana, author of Do Walk (Global Book Sales / Do Books), wrote a piece this month for WBUR about walking every day for 12 years, and recently she also hosted Joanna Gaines on her This Morning Walk podcast.
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Rebekah Taussig’s essay from We’ve Got This (Scribe) was featured in Emily Oster’s ParentData newsletter on November 24.
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