Hot News This Week
September 15, 2022
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Five Consortium titles have been longlisted for the 2022 National Book Awards—a huge congratulations to all the talented authors, translators, and publishers nominated! Our calendars are marked for the finalist announcement on October 4.
Translated Literature
Seasons of Purgatory by Shahriar Mandanipour, translated by Sara Khalili (Bellevue Literary Press, 9781942658955)
Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda, translated by Sarah Booker (Coffee House Press, 9781566896214)
Poetry
Nonfiction
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“The boarding passengers have more secrets than an Agatha Christie cast, creating a powder keg on train tracks. The Sleeping Car Porter is an engaging and illuminating novel about the costs of work, service, and secrets.”—Keith Mosman, Powell’s Books (Portland, OR)
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Read This Next: A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter by Carolyn Hays
On September 8, writer Stephanie Burt reviewed Carolyn Hays’s A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter for the Boston Globe, calling the memoir an “energetic, wise, practical, hopeful” book, one in which “we learn with Hays (if we did not already know) how other families—that is, most families, not only trans ones—can cherish one another, and seek help, and take care of ourselves.” For more on the personal history documented in A Girlhood, read Hays’s op-ed (“My daughter is trans. She was nearly taken away from me because I let her transition”) in The Guardian.
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Two Children’s Book Picks in the Wall Street Journal
On September 9, Alte Zachen / Old Things by Ziggy Hanaor, illustrated by Benjamin Phillips, and The Musicians of Bremen by Gerda Muller were reviewed in the Wall Street Journal by children’s book critic Meghan Cox Gurdon. In the piece, Gurdon compares Alte Zachen to Art Spiegelman’s Maus (“like that graphic novel it expands our understanding of the gulf that can exist between generations, particularly those divided by catastrophe”), and she praises the “enjoyable pictures” in The Musicians of Bremen that “strike a satisfying balance between humor and refinement.” Read the full review here.
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★ “Jones’s most free-flowing work yet, a centripetal collection where rage and pain and weariness swirl and coalesce with stunning emotional and conceptual clarity, yet so intimate it feels bled from the author’s very veins.”—Library Journal
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“This book is so good. . . . [Siem is] a truly talented memoirist and observer, one who has undertaken the under-documented act of getting off antidepressants.”—Good Morning America
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“Terrill sees the beauty in our daily lives . . . Like his worldview, his writing is jazzlike, nuanced, unexpected, arresting, and yes, essential.”—Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul)
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“A lyrical, innovative memoir about sex, parenting, and addiction.”—Kirkus Reviews
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We’re saddened by the recent loss of historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, author of Haunted by Slavery (Haymarket Books). Read Dr. Hall’s obituary in the New York Times for more on her extraordinary work.
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Yam Gong’s bilingual collection Moving a Stone, translated by James Shea and Dorothy Tse (Zephyr Press), has been selected for Hong Kong’s 2022 One City One Book program.
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On September 7, the Los Angeles Times featured a roundtable discussion with Gary Phillips, editor of South Central Noir (Akashic Books), plus several of the book’s contributors.
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Several authors from Consortium publishers are winners of the Poetry Foundation’s 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prizes, including CAConrad, Arthur Sze, and Sandra Cisneros.
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