Hot News This Week
September 21, 2023
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| | Wild Geese
by Soula Emmanuel
Feminist Press • September 2023 • 9781558610132
“Soula Emmanuel has perfected the art of describing the mundane—the feeling when the world is quietly breaking, but for no one but yourself.” — Mikey LaFave, Avid Bookshop (Athens, GA)
“Equal parts harrowing and hilarious. . . . This one has a Before Sunset kind of quality to it.” — Kyra Perlmutter, Politics and Prose Bookstore (Washington, DC)
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| Read This Next: a Strange and Juicy Short Story Collection
Hiromi Kawakami’s Dragon Palace, translated by Ted Goossen, was released this week, and it’s drawing great press so far. According to the Japan Times, the story collection is a “juicy and delightfully raunchy read” featuring “interspecies slipperiness and supernatural strangeness,” and Shelf Awareness praises the “gently eerie glory in this delectable assortment of the odd and the moving.” The book is also one of Publishers Weekly’s top indie recs for fall, and the New Yorker recently excerpted a story from the collection.
Dragon Palace
by Hiromi Kawakami, trans. Ted Goossen
Stone Bridge / MONKEY • September 2023 • 9781737625353
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★ “Klamm’s supremely worthy gambit is to spend roughly equal time on every significant sketch and ‘sketch-adjacent’ TV show from the 1990s, an indisputably sensational decade in comedy.” — Shelf Awareness
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| | The Lonely Book
by Meg Grehan
Little Island Books • September 2023 • 9781915071446
★ “By emphasizing the ways in which books and bookstores serve as safe spaces, the importance of open and honest communication in relationships, and the power of unconditional love, Grehan offers a wholesome and affirming story suffused with warmth.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “More than a memoir, this book demonstrates why stories matter. . . . [It] illuminates horrific war crimes, brutal state repression, and more, without ever losing sight of humanity’s power to create meaningful, systems-based change.” — Library Journal
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“Poignant. Provocative. Downright hilarious. Heather Lanier is an incendiary psalmist and we love her for it.” — Kate Bowler
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