Hot News This Week
July 11, 2024
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| For their July 8 & 15 issue, the New Yorker profiled our friends at Fitzcarraldo with a story on how “Fitzcarraldo Editions Makes Challenging Literature Chic.” As the press approaches their tenth anniversary this fall, “four of the writers who have been named Nobel laureates in the past decade are on Fitzcarraldo’s roster,” notes writer Rebecca Mead. Read the piece here and browse Fitzcarraldo’s titles on Edelweiss.
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“How the horrific scenarios still flow so strong and feel so fresh after this many collections kind of blows my mind. . . . Adding sci-fi into the stream gives it some Kim-Bo-Young-slash-George-Saunders peanut butter cup (savory/sweet) magic.” — Ian McCord, Avid Bookshop (Athens, GA)
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“Beautiful and luminous, this is a love story that transcends time. Think The Time Traveler’s Wife meets The Lake House, with a little bit of Crazy Rich Asians sprinkled in. What was fascinating was the transformation of Singapore as time went on as well as Charlie’s discovery of her family secrets as she obsesses over Wang Tian Wei’s letters from the past.” — Audrey Huang, Belmont Books (Belmont, MA)
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| PEOPLE Flocking for Flaco Book
As announced in PEOPLE Magazine on June 27, Blair is set to publish The Book of Flaco: The World’s Most Famous Bird by acclaimed nature writer David Gessner. “The year-long odyssey of Flaco the owl captured the imaginations of New Yorkers, of millions of people around the world—and Flaco captured me immediately,” says Gessner. A fable of freedom and wildness, The Book of Flaco will be released on February 11, 2025, marking the first anniversary of Flaco’s death. Learn more via PEOPLE and Kirkus Reviews.
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| The Advocate Honors Mark Anthony
Drag king Mark Anthony, author of Life as a Cabaret, is featured on The Advocate’s annual list of the top ten “Advocates” striving to make the world a better place for all. “In his new book, Life as a Cabaret, filled with stunning images by renowned burlesque photographer Veronika Marx, Anthony seeks to show an entirely different side of cabaret ‘in all of its gritty, subversive glory,’” according to The Advocate. Says Anthony, “Drag brought me out of my shell, gave me the confidence to be seen, and also to process my trans identity.”
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★ “Adderson, best known in the US for her children’s books, is a deft, masterful storyteller whose literary fiction surely deserves more attention.” — Kirkus Reviews
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| | Intervals
by Marianne Brooker
Fitzcarraldo Editions • September 2024 • 9781804270837
★ “Brooker debuts with a searing meditation on end-of-life care that traces her mother’s primary progressive multiple sclerosis. . . . A brilliant blend of memoir and cultural critique that’s likely to reshape readers’ ideas about death and dying.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | Theophanies
by Sarah Ghazal Ali
Alice James Books • January 2024 • 9781949944587
“With Theophanies, Ali celebrates the mother line as something that rebels against the confinements of narrow belief systems and resists the inclination for women to be written out.” — Harvard Review
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| | The Words That Remain
by Stênio Gardel, trans. Bruna Dantas Lobato
New Vessel Press • January 2023 • 9781954404120
“A poignant, sensitive narrative, the author’s style both delicate and brutal. . . . [Gardel] portrays erotic love in its most essential meaning.” — World Literature Today
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| | Sex Goblin
by Lauren Cook
Nightboat Books • May 2024 • 9781643622330
“Sex Goblin vibrates with a kinetic, buzzy energy, pinging between the depraved digital and the lonely truth of the IRL world.” — Paper Magazine
“There’s an emotional acuity that sneaks up on you, making the mundane (waiting in a drive-through at Starbucks) and the surreal (a witch who turns an offending man into underwear) feel unpredictable and immediate.” — Vulture, “The Best Books of 2024 (So Far)”
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| | Deer Book
by Cecilia Vicuna, trans. Daniel Borzutzky
Radius Books • March 2024 • 9781955161114
“Bound by a red thread, a signature motif that appears throughout her body of work, Cecilia Vicuña’s Deer Book slowly unfolds as a visual mapping of mythological and cosmological associations of the deer.” — Brooklyn Rail
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| | New Digital Review Copies
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Tongueless
by Lau Yee-Wa, trans. Jennifer Feeley
Feminist Press • June 2024 • 9781558613188
★ “A taut, chilling novel about the weaponization of language as a tool of oppression.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Our friend Jim Perlman, founding editor and publisher of Holy Cow! Press, received the 2024 Lord Nose Award at the CLMP award ceremony on June 27, an honor recognizing a lifetime of superlative work in literary publishing. Congrats, Jim!
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