Hot News This Week
October 24, 2024
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| Curbed featured a story on Your Dream Home by John Wilson, host and creator of HBO’s How to With John Wilson. In the piece, Wilson annotates select images found in his new photobook from Sacred Bones Books, which collects bizarro Zillow listings he came across during the pandemic.
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“Welcome to Dunhollow Academy of Witchcraft, where books have their own spicy personalities and the hallways are haunted by spell-casting students. . . . A truly wonderful blend of gothic romantasy and dark academia. The ending truly left me haunted and only slightly emotionally damaged ;)” — Anna Anabseh, Underground Books (Carrollton, GA)
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| | The Book of All Loves
by Agustín Fernández Mallo, trans. Thomas Bunstead
Fitzcarraldo Editions • September 2024 • 9781804270790
“Genre-trouncing, beautiful, daring! I loved this book!” — Spencer Ruchti, Third Place Books (Seattle, WA)
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| | Sunday
by Marcelo Tolentino
Blue Dot Kids Press • January 2025 • 9798989858811
★ “A breathtaking trip through one boy’s imagination, this beautiful picture book is highly recommended for school and public libraries. . . . Tolentino’s artwork is truly mesmerizing: deep, lush, detailed and realistic. Each page is its own rich world.” — School Library Journal
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| | Yard Show
by Janice N. Harrington
BOA Editions • October 2024 • 9781960145314
★ “A delightful poetic mélange . . . the erudite latest from Harrington celebrates the yard show—a personalized, and personally significant, display of objects in one’s yard—as a microcosm for Black American expressions of place and belonging.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “Debut author Sanders delivers a powerful, coming-of-age novel set in 1981 Texarkana, Texas. . . . Sanders also captures the ’80s beautifully, folding in references to social norms, such as smoking cigarettes indoors, and pop culture. All told, this is a home run.” — Booklist
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★ “In a wrenching exercise to understand history and his own biracial ancestry, Shimoda visits the ruins of incarceration sites and connects with many descendants of the Japanese Americans whose lives were upended during WWII.” — Booklist
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| | The Lady of the Mine
by Sergei Lebedev, trans. Antonina W. Bouis
New Vessel Press • January 2025 • 9781954404304
★ “In the transfixing latest from Russian writer Lebedev, the ghosts of wars past are exhumed in 2014 eastern Ukraine. . . . It’s a bleak and electrifying tour de force.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | Mammoth
by Eva Baltasar, trans. Julia Sanches
And Other Stories • August 2024 • 9781916751002
“In sharp and forthright prose, adeptly translated by Julia Sanches, Baltasar’s novel tells the story of a heroine who is queer and determined to live alone, but also to get pregnant.” — New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
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“Kathe Koja has achieved in Catherine the Ghost both a remarkable adaptation of Brontë’s classic novel and an entirely independent work that can resonate with people who are unfamiliar with Brontë’s passionate story of love and revenge.” — Los Angeles Review of Books
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| | Lesser Ruins
by Mark Haber
Coffee House Press • October 2024 • 9781566897198
“The novel’s jumps in register from grandiose to trivial, from historic to contingent and from irascible to inconsolable are frequent and affecting. There’s a deep comic strain to the book but also a tragic one.” — Forward
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“A powerful array of sports imagery, a look at the lives of Black athletes in America from the early 20th century to the present. . . . We see athletes we know from across generations. But also, we see everyday people—boys playing sandlot baseball, girls playing Double Dutch.” — Smithsonian Magazine
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“Abolish Rent is refreshingly confident, the authoritative work on tenant unionism in the US today.” — New Republic
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“[A] masterful new collection. . . . Its poems—almost entirely long and exhilaratingly intricate—explore notions of involvement and participation in the consumptive and colonial forces of late capitalism, in the plundering of the living world.” — Los Angeles Review of Books
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| | Gifted
by Suzuki Suzumi, trans. Allison Markin Powell
Transit Books • October 2024 • 9798893389005
“A unique and propulsive story reminiscent of the emotional elusiveness of Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman. . . . With a style both clinical and aloof, the novella unfolds a heartbreaking story about the distance and closeness between mother and daughter.” — Asian Review of Books
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On Wednesday, Lisa Lucas took to X/Twitter to rave about Jacqueline Harpman’s I Who Have Never Known Men, translated by Ros Schwartz (Transit Books): “This book is bananas bananas bananas good.”
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This week, artist Joe Roberts’s book LSD Worldpeace (Anthology Editions) was featured in a Blackbird Spyplane interview with Father John Misty, whose new album cover is illustrated by Roberts. Read more about his psychedelic art in a recent San Francisco Standard profile.
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Ryane Nicole Granados, author of The Aves (Leapfrog Press), was recently interviewed by VoyageLA.
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ABA, SIBA, and Bookshop.org Bestseller
Loving Corrections
by adrienne maree brown
AK Press • August 2024 • 9781849355544
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“Souls are now immortalized in an absolutely gorgeous reissue of Halloween by Anthology Editions, which will have you giggling through tears at the brilliant ingenuity and pagan energy of local ‘maskers’ showing off their only-in-SF spirit.” — 48 Hills
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