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July 20, 2023
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“What is City Lights?” was the answer to last Wednesday’s Final Jeopardy, a question prompted by the clue “a 1931 Charlie Chaplin film & a West Coast bookstore open since 1953 both bear this name.” This year marks the 70th anniversary for our Bay Area friends—happy birthday, City Lights!
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“This gutsy novel is a mash-up of Moby-Dick, the Twilight series, Alice in Wonderland, and cli-fi.” — Grace Harper, Mac’s Backs (Cleveland Heights, OH)
“Wildly inventive, yet tenderly human at the same time.” — Josh Cook, Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA)
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“Reads like an instant classic. . . . It left an imprint on my heart!” — Andrew King, Secret Garden Books (Seattle, WA)
“A great read-aloud for any classroom.” — Melody Wukitch, Park Books (Severna Park, MD)
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| Kimberlé Crenshaw on #SayHerName
This week, leading activist and Black feminist legal theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw was interviewed by MSNBC’s PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton and Elle about #SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of State Violence and Public Silence, her new book with the African American Policy Forum. “I hope that it allows people the space and grace to ask themselves, ‘Why didn’t I know this?’” Crenshaw tells Elle. “‘Why is it that I didn’t know the name of India Kager, or why didn’t I know the name of Michelle Cusseaux?’” W. Kamau Bell also took to social media yesterday to celebrate Crenshaw’s work and the publication of #SayHerName.
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| Gryphon Press on Publishing Barbara Kingsolver's Debut Children's Book
On July 13, Publishers Weekly interviewed the Gryphon Press co-publishers Emilie and Dana Buchwald about the forthcoming publication of Coyote’s Wild Home, Barbara Kingsolver’s debut children’s book co-written with environmental educator Lily Kingsolver and illustrated by Paul Mirocha. “When we decided to do a book about coyotes, it seemed to us that the best possible choice would be Barbara Kingsolver,” says Emilie. “Lily proposed the story of two youngsters, a coyote pup and a little girl, having intertwined adventures in the wilderness. They were excited to work together to do that.” Coyote’s Wild Home will be out in October.
Coyote’s Wild Home
by Barbara Kingsolver and Lily Kingsolver, illus. Paul Mirocha
Gryphon Press • October 2023 • 9780940719484
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, July 25.
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| | The Plotinus
by Rikki Ducornet
Coffee House Press • July 2023 • 9781566896818
★ “An inscrutable wonder of a book that rewards a reader’s attention with its own returned gaze.” — Kirkus Reviews
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| | A Little Luck
by Claudia Piñeiro, trans. Frances Riddle
Charco Press • July 2023 • 9781913867553
“In this novel, a woman returns to her Buenos Aires neighborhood 20 years after she left. Her past is waiting for her there, full of guilt, but so is a little luck.” — New York Times Book Review
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| | Down with the Poor!
by Shumona Sinha, trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan
Deep Vellum Publishing • July 2023 • 9781646052134
“After a Bengali interpreter who works with asylum seekers in Paris is charged with assaulting a refugee, her resulting self-examination lays bare the callousness of France’s asylum system.” — New York Times Book Review
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| | To The Lake
by Yana Vagner, trans. Maria Wiltshire
Deep Vellum Publishing • July 2023 • 9781646052110
“Anya and her husband, Sergey, flee north to escape a flu epidemic in Moscow. As the disease spreads and their supplies dwindle, the married couple clash with their circumstances and with each other.” — New York Times Book Review
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“Using original reporting and archival research, O’Connor puts forth an analysis of white supremacy and capitalism that emphasizes the ways those two forces work together to enforce what he calls the ‘border fascism’ of the United States.” — New York Times Book Review
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| | Lost Bread
by Edith Bruck, trans. Gabriella Romani and David Yanoff
Paul Dry Books • July 2023 • 9781589881785
“In whatever language you encounter Ms. Bruck’s work, her spare prose captures the raw terror and bitter sorrow of the camps. . . . Reading her work is like breaking bread with her, seeking light amid the shadows cast by history.” — Wall Street Journal
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Hydra Medusa
by Brandon Shimoda
Nightboat Books • June 2023 • 9781643621715
“If you’re unfamiliar with Shimoda’s work, you’ll want to fix that. . . . Hydra Medusa [is] not only unexpected but also wholly fresh.” — David Ulin, Alta
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Havana Red by Leonardo Padura (Bitter Lemon Press) is one of the 50 best mysteries of all time, according to Esquire.
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