Hot News This Week
June 13, 2024
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| The 2024 Lambda Literary Awards were announced on Tuesday, and we’re thrilled to celebrate four winning titles from Consortium publishers. Congrats to all!
- Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel (Feminist Press) for Transgender Fiction
- Teeter by Kimberly Alidio (Nightboat Books) for Lesbian Poetry
- Desire Museum by Danielle Cadena Deulen (BOA Editions) for Bisexual Poetry
- Fat Ham by James Ijames (Theatre Communications Group) for LGBTQ+ Drama
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Living Things
by Munir Hachemi, trans. Julia Sanches
Coach House Books • June 2024 • 9781552454770
“This book has made me very annoying at work because I won’t shut up about it—it is, without exaggeration, one of the best novels I’ve read in recent memory.” — Jacob Rogers, Center for Fiction (Brooklyn, NY)
“Coach House translations are always such a treat and veer on the absurd and experimental, and this novel takes the cake for them. An absolute feat in translated fiction!” — Grace Sullivan, Fountain Bookstore (Richmond, VA)
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Brittle Joints
by Maria Sweeney
Street Noise Books • June 2024 • 9781951491260
“What a powerful graphic memoir. Maria is living with a rare condition that makes her bones very brittle and causes her immense pain. . . . This is a beautiful and important book.” — Katrina Bright-Yerges, Books & Company (Oconomowoc, WI)
“The art matches the delicacy and chaos that go along with being trapped in a body that you love and hate equally. Sweeney is a unique voice and a breath of fresh air in the graphic novel world.” — Manda Barker, Raven Book Store (Lawrence, KS)
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| Big News for Andrew Krivak’s Novels
On June 6, the American Booksellers Association announced that Like the Appearance of Horses by Andrew Krivak is a Summer 2024 Reading Group Guide pick, recommended in the Historical Fiction category. “Some novels are just plain beautiful,” says Linda Bond of Auntie’s Bookstore (Spokane, WA). “Like the Appearance of Horses is a story about a family that lives through a hundred years of war. . . . One by one, they are claimed for the battlefield, for wounds that never heal.” Released in paperback last month, the book has received three starred reviews from Library Journal, Booklist, and Kirkus, and it was one of Reading Group Choices’ most popular books in May.
In other Krivak news, his novel The Bear is an NEA Big Read selection for the third year in a row. The 2024-2025 cycle, in partnership with Arts Midwest, will connect The Bear with libraries, nonprofits, and community reading programs around the country. Learn more about the programming here.
The Bear
by Andrew Krivak
Bellevue Literary Press • February 2020 • 9781942658702
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★ “A powerfully intimate graphic memoir of a partner’s assisted suicide. . . . Along the way, there is dark humor, anguish, tenderness, engaging storytelling, and philosophy.” — Kirkus Reviews
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| | Hello, Horse
by Richard Kelly Kemick
Biblioasis • August 2024 • 9781771966078
★ “Provocative, entertaining short fiction. . . . The tales here mix whimsy, weirdness, lust, and Canadian politics, bringing to mind George Saunders and the slackers from Wayne’s World.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “As an intimate repository for thought, notebooks, Allen amply shows, are essential. An enthusiastic, informative cultural history.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “The abundant third collection from Daye lyrically charts the history of a Black community residing on a hilltop town in North Carolina.” — Publishers Weekly
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“The book pulls readers into a world of magic and bodybuilding. . . . Bonapace tells this yarn with glee, careening between genres and pop culture references, swinging at fitness culture and self-improvement all the way.” — Elle
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“Karisma Price’s debut poetry collection, I’m Always So Serious, has set New Orleans buzzing with the deftness of her vision and her attention to the kind of details that show the city in a fresh way.” — New York Times Book Review
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“A lovely story of a grandfather and his grandson who go searching for Faraway Valley, a place that his grandfather visited when he was younger. This is a sensitive story of the connection they share.” — Judith Lafitte, Octavia Books (New Orleans, LA)
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We’re saddened by the loss of French singer and icon Françoise Hardy, who passed away this week at age 80. Her memoir, The Despair of Monkeys and Other Trifles, was translated by Jon E. Graham and published by Feral House in 2018. Read the New York Times obituary for more on Hardy’s distinguished legacy.
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A stage production of Maggie Nelson’s Bluets (Wave Books)—adapted by Margaret Perry and starring Ben Whishaw and Emma D’Arcy—is now playing at London’s Royal Court Theatre.
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