Hot News This Week
March 2, 2023
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In response to a New Yorker piece about declining humanities enrollment, [To] The Last [Be] Human author and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham went viral on Twitter this week with a call for English majors to share their experiences. Graham’s latest collection, To 2040, arrives next month from Copper Canyon.
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| | A Little Luck
by Claudia Piñeiro, trans. Frances Riddle
Charco Press • July 2023 • 9781913867553
“A split second decision. A tragedy. Lives forever changed. Twenty years later Marilè now known as Mary Lohan returns to her hometown in Argentina. I highly recommend A Little Luck by Claudia Piñeiro.” — Caitlin Luce Baker, Island Books (Mercer Island, WA)
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| Just Announced: a Defense of Black Studies from Haymarket Books and Kaepernick Publishing
As reported in Publishers Weekly on Tuesday, Haymarket Books is teaming up with Kaepernick Publishing to co-publish Our History Has Always Been Contraband, an anthology in defense of Black studies edited by Robin D. G. Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Colin Kaepernick, with support from the Marguerite Casey Foundation. “We’re thrilled to be partnering with Haymarket Books on this important project,” Kaepernick tells PW. “The political stakes in the fight to protect, preserve, and expand Black Studies couldn’t be higher.” The book will be released this spring, with more details soon to come.
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★ “[A] stunning debut collection . . . It’s not often that fat women feel such thorough representation of themselves not only in poetry but in any media and not only in the beautiful moments but in the sorrowful ones, ranging throughout life.” — Library Journal
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★ “A gay lawyer copes with relationship problems, addiction, and a seductive stalker in this twisty thriller. . . . A riveting yarn with a charismatic tempter.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “A series of uncanny events befall a woman at her company’s annual banquet in Cooney’s captivating latest. . . . This elegant and off-kilter upending of the office novel sings.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | Skeletons
by Deborah Landau
Copper Canyon Press • April 2023 • 9781556596650
★ “In her shining fifth collection, Landau chooses the somewhat unexpected acrostic form as a container for her punchy riffs on modern life. . . . These poems unfurl a resonant commentary on loneliness and mortality.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “An examination of that universal milestone signaling maturation—losing a tooth—that also offers a tongue-in-cheek history of tooth collection. . . . A deeply humorous, beautifully imaginative celebration of growing up.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “A daring post-colonial satire about a professor who inadvertently gets wrapped up in human trafficking in modern-day Tel Aviv. . . . It’s a blistering skewering, and as sharp as it is funny.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | Abyss
by Pilar Quintana, trans. Lisa Dillman
World Editions • February 2023 • 9781642861228
★ “Mesmerizing . . . Abyss is a riveting story of regret, opportunities squandered and the fear that family misfortunes will persist through generations.” — Shelf Awareness
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| | On Browsing
by Jason Guriel
Biblioasis • November 2022 • 9781771965101
“Why don’t you reminisce with Jason Guriel about the vanishing art of browsing? Along with the expected celebrations of old-fashioned bookshops and record stores, it also contains a tart incidental riff on the deficiencies (in Guriel’s opinion) of his native Canada’s poetry scene.” — Read Like the Wind (New York Times)
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“Hahn is so smart and neurotic and funny and clear about the challenges of his profession. . . . The whole book is filled with similarly great metaphors and explanations and patiently worked-out solutions to some of the technical problems he faced.” — Read Like the Wind (New York Times)
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“These are the masterful portraits, mercurial testimonies, and verbal inventions of our imminent poet of the new school/south, the next generation. I’m Always so Serious is brilliant.” — Terrance Hayes
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