Hot News This Week
March 14, 2024
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| | Cartoons
by Kit Schluter
City Lights Publishers • May 2024 • 9780872869288
“Consistently strange and oddly affecting, it’s one of the most transporting and flat-out fun reads of the year.” — Bryan Seitz, Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)
“I read Cartoons with an excitement I’ve found impossible to muster for most contemporary fiction. Here, at last, a long-promised new thing!” — Stephen Sparks, Point Reyes Books (Point Reyes Station, CA)
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| | Selamlik
by Khaled Alesmael, trans. Leri Price
World Editions • April 2024 • 9781642861488
“Brutal and honest in its depiction of the pains of war and loss, but also in the experience of navigating gay life through this context. . . . Furat’s story of escape, desire, and grief is so intrinsically human, it’s impossible not experience it along with him.” — Andrew Preston, CoffeeTree Books (Morehead, KY)
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| American Mother in the New York Times
American Mother authors Diane Foley and Colum McCann were profiled in the daily New York Times on Tuesday. “Colum reminded me of Jim in a lot of ways, just in his goodness and his ability to put very profound feelings into words,” Foley tells writer Max Ufberg, explaining their collaboration. As Ufberg describes it, “Foley’s urge to understand the psychology of one of her son’s captors made her a perfect match for McCann, who has described the value of ‘radical empathy’ to his moral compass.”
Author Michael Cunningham also spoke to the Times for the piece, comparing American Mother to Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood and noting its uniqueness: “It’s a novelist writing about an actual event with a depth and thoroughness that you never get from the news.” Read the story here.
American Mother
by Colum McCann and Diane Foley
Etruscan Press • March 2024 • 9798985882452
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| Remembering Rabbi Ellen Bernstein
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| | Black Bell
by Alison C. Rollins
Copper Canyon Press • April 2024 • 9781556597008
★ “Taking its title from the practice of enslavers attaching iron bells on rods to enslaved people to prevent them from escaping, the collection plumbs the relationship between sound, Blackness, and performance as possible avenues for ongoing resistance and liberation.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “[Holmes] dives into the funny and frightening world of online romantic fraud in her eye-opening debut. . . . Equal parts riotous and enlightening, this peek behind the digital curtain underlines the dangers and delights of the Information Age.” — Publishers Weekly
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Ghost Pains
by Jessi Jezewska Stevens
And Other Stories • March 2024 • 9781913505844
“A skillful and expansive collection ranging from Nabokovian confessions to fabulist sketches. . . . Readers will enjoy visiting Stevens’s delightfully weird world.” — Publishers Weekly
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