Hot News This Week
September 7, 2023
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As reported in Shelf Awareness, Haymarket Books is now distributing and promoting Boston Review to the book trade, effective this month. Read the announcement for more on their new publishing partnership, and browse Boston Review’s backlist and new issues on Edelweiss.
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| | OKPsyche
by Anya Johanna DeNiro
Small Beer Press • September 2023 • 9781618732088
“An allegorical and lyrical short novel about a transgender woman struggling to belong in a near future populated by emotional support robots and a ceaseless slew of environmental disasters.” — Sam Edge, Epilogue Books (Chapel Hill, NC)
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| New Fosse Coming This Fall
Jon Fosse’s A Shining, translated by Damion Searles, is one of the New York Times Book Review’s fall fiction picks: “Fosse, a Norwegian writer, has become something of a literary sensation after the popularity of his dark-horse Septology series. In his new novel, a man makes a series of wrong turns, gets out of his car, starts walking through the forest and becomes dazzled by the titular ‘shining’ and other near-death hallucinations.”
A Shining
by Jon Fosse, trans. Damion Searls
Transit Books • October 2023 • 9781945492778
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| Indie Book Recs from Kirkus and PW
In other fall book news, Kirkus and Publishers Weekly recommend numerous Consortium titles for the season ahead . . .
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Sept. 12.
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| | Inversion
by Aric McBay
AK Press • November 2023 • 9781849355049
★ “A masterful worldbuilding feat. Never heavy-handed or preachy, this thought-provoking work of speculative fiction is sure to linger in readers’ minds.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “A collection of stories that examine coming of age, family, and Diné life. . . . Propulsive and complex, this is a gorgeously written debut.” — Kirkus Reviews
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| | Tiger & Cat
by Allira Tee
Berbay Publishing • March 2023 • 9781922610508
“In Allira Tee’s Tiger & Cat, illustrated in soft pastels, an anthropomorphized tiger and house cat are the best of friends, despite their differences in size and (presumably) nature. They fly kites, dance and drink tea together.” — New York Times Book Review
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“The peculiar seduction of picking locks, discovered during a bout of online procrastination, draws [Bea] toward a secret double life, one unrestrained by rules or boundaries.” — Wall Street Journal
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| | Second Best
by David Foenkinos, trans. Megan Jones
Gallic Books • September 2023 • 9781913547592
“Foenkinos’s surreal yet relatable novel, a French bestseller, considers life in our age of anxiety, when other people’s picture-perfect lives make our own seem drab in comparison.” — Washington Post
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| New Digital Review Copies
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“These fifteen stories evoke all the weird ways in which strange bodies can make us shiver and heave.” — Bust
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