Hot News This Week
May 23, 2024
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| | Cecilia
by K-Ming Chang
Coffee House Press • May 2024 • 9781566897075
“Shame is the grotesque, ravenous, and erotic incarnate of K-Ming Chang’s Cecilia. With fabulous complexity, beating intensity, and masterful storytelling.” — Thu Doan, East Bay Booksellers (Oakland, CA)
“No one writes the female gaze like K-Ming Chang. Sensual, grotesque, imaginative—this novella relishes all the richest parts of girlhood.” — Laurel McCaull, Green Apple Books (San Francisco, CA)
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| | Sex Goblin
by Lauren Cook
Nightboat Books • May 2024 • 9781643622330
“It’s not often a book entertains as easily as Sex Goblin does while simultaneously speaking to the monstrousness of being in a body at all.” — Mathuson Anthony, Book Club Bar (New York City, NY)
“The knife’s edge of sex and violence, comedy and profoundly blunt misery, mania and self-loathing, reduced into book form.” — Natalie Marlin, Moon Palace Books (Minneapolis, MN)
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| Solenoid Wins the 2024 Dublin Literary Award
Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid, translated by Sean Cotter (Deep Vellum Publishing), is the winner of the 2024 Dublin Literary Award. The prestigious international award honors a work of fiction published in English, and the prize winnings of €100,000 (about $108,360 USD) will be split 75-25 between the author and translator.
Solenoid
by Mircea Cartarescu, trans. Sean Cotter
Deep Vellum Publishing • October 2022 • 9781646052028
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| “Literary Riches Await Curious Readers in Their Local Independent Bookstore”
Several Consortium publishers and titles were highlighted in a New York Times Book Review “By the Book” interview with City Lights bookselling legend Paul Yamazaki. “We have seen a litany of exciting international literature being translated and published by presses like Dalkey Archive, Open Letter, Deep Vellum, Two Lines and Dorothy, a publishing project,” says Yamazaki. “The last two Nobel Prizes in Literature have been published in the United States by independent presses: Seven Stories (Annie Ernaux) and Transit Books (Jon Fosse). Literary riches await curious readers in their local independent bookstore.”
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| | To & Fro
by Leah Hager Cohen
Bellevue Literary Press • May 2024 • 9781954276253
“A literary jewel with multiple facets. Its two storylines form a satisfying jigsaw puzzle of cleverly interlocking parts. . . . To & Fro invites rereading and deserves an honored place on the shelves of any serious fiction reader.” — Washington Post
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| | American Abductions
by Mauro Javier Cardenas
Deep Vellum / Dalkey Archive Press • May 2024 • 9781628975185
“In his new novel, Cárdenas considers the devastating effects of US immigration policy on Latin American families, using expansive, pages-long sentences full of references to art, mysticism and ominous technologies.” — New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
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“Against Erasure invites us into a past before the rupture of the Nakba, and invites us to bear witness in the moments that created this catastrophe. Through viewing the photographs, we can read ourselves in the historical context that created our present, and imagine something different.” — Los Angeles Review of Books
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“A groundbreaking book about LGBTQ+ life and love from the Arab world and its diaspora. A truly unprecedented and eye-opening insight into a community too often ignored from a group of 18 amazing writers. Perfect for those who love great writing, romance, politics and learning. A necessary read for our times.” — Newsweek
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| | Traces of Enayat
by Iman Mersal, trans. Robin Moger
Transit Books • April 2024 • 9781945492846
“Literary obsession and detective work merge in this biography of Enayat al-Zayyat, an Egyptian writer who died by suicide in 1963, at the age of twenty-six, years before the publication of her only novel.” — New Yorker
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| New Digital Review Copies
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“These beautiful stories fill my heart with hope and longing. . . . I’ll Give You a Reason will blow you away.” — Rayna Nielsen, Blue Cypress Books (New Orleans, LA)
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On May 17, Bruna Dantas Lobato spoke with the Cincinnati Review about translating The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel (New Vessel Press), which won the 2023 National Book Award for Translation.
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Plus, our friends at Small Beer Press are up for the Locus Award for best publisher!
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