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September 28, 2023
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“Otherworldly, eerie, quiet . . . it’s difficult to describe the unknowable and abstract feeling this novella gave me. A great piece of weird fiction.” — Andrew Preston, CoffeeTree Books (Morehead, KY)
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| | While We Were Dreaming
by Clemens Meyer, trans. Katy Derbyshire
Fitzcarraldo Editions • September 2023 • 9781804270288
“Sits well on the shelf amidst Trainspotting, Stand by Me (er, The Body) and Requiem for a Dream, those disturbing yet nostalgic tales of the rise and fall of childhood chums slumming down life’s yellower brick roads.” — Ian McCord, Avid Bookshop (Athens, GA)
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| World Editions Marks Five Years
Abyss
by Pilar Quintana, trans. Lisa Dillman
World Editions • February 2023 • 9781642861228
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| Read This Next: Holy Food by Christina Ward
On Tuesday, Atlas Obscura spoke with Feral House publisher and author Chistina Ward about her new book, Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat—An American History. “[Food] lends itself to so many allegorical relationships to spirituality, especially in the pre-science days,” says Ward in the interview. “So our existence in earliest times is so tied to that spirituality, the belief that there’s something greater looking out for you. If you take it from there, it becomes imbued in all of the food as we cascade down.” Learn more about Holy Food via Milwaukee Magazine, Religion News Service, OnMilwaukee, Milk Street Magazine, Stained Page News, 100 Words or Less, and Ultraculture With Jason Louv.
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Oct. 3.
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| | Verdigris
by Michele Mari, trans. Brian Robert Moore
And Other Stories • January 2024 • 9781913505905
★ “A curious teenager’s conversations with an odd groundskeeper yield far more than he'd bargained for. . . . A gripping, beguiling, occasionally discomfiting, and utterly fascinating tour de force.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “Dynamic and brilliant . . . in Dougherty’s existential 20th collection, he scrutinizes in prose poems the challenges of caregiving, the fleeting nature of life, and the profound moments that shape humanity.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “A breathtaking book by an artist to watch . . . González channels her Native and African American heritages into an excoriated speaker, the audacious fox woman, who outwits her pursuers.” — Booklist
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| | We Are Light
by Gerda Blees, trans. Michele Hutchison
World Editions • August 2023 • 9781642861273
★ “Blees makes her English language debut with a riveting experimental novel about a commune where the members’ belief that they can live on light and love alone proves fatal for one of them.” — Publishers Weekly
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“In the Roses of Pieria is vampirism from the view of human prey, and it flirts engagingly with the elements of horror. It’s also a particularly erudite romance, suggesting sly parallels between working for a supernatural predator and laboring in modern academia.” — New York Times Book Review
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“A Bollywood-inspired novella that pays homage to the Soviets’ love of Indian cinema . . . Kidnapped is a cold war soap opera par excellence, replete with spies, Angolan freedom fighters, and student dormitories filled with the many nationalities of the Soviet Union.” — New York Review of Books
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Ravage & Son
by Jerome Charyn
Bellevue Literary Press • August 2023 • 9781954276192
“The accomplished author has turned to his own past, living in New York City, to dredge up the sumptuous details surrounding what once was the world of Manhattan’s Lower East Side.” — Linda Bond, Auntie’s Bookstore (Spokane, WA)
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