Hot News This Week
December 14, 2023
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| Norwegian author Jon Fosse officially received his Nobel Prize in Literature at a ceremony on Sunday. Watch the Nobel lecture Fosse delivered last week and read the recent New York Times pieces on his work, a profile on his life and influences and an essay about mysticism in Septology (Transit Books).
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“Maalouf’s twist on alien contact is fantastic. . . . You’ll be left questioning nothing less than the value of human civilization.” — Kay Wosewick, Boswell Book Company (Milwaukee, WI)
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| Three Debut Poets Honored by Poets & Writers
Three authors from Consortium publishers are interviewed for the annual debut poets feature in Poets & Writers:
- Ina Cariño, author of Feast (Alice James Books), a poet “decentering the fermented milk of the white gaze” with “their intergenerational and voracious speech.”
- Simon Shieh, author of Master (Sarabande Books), who “presents a poetics of emancipation . . . deconstructing the memory of a master figure’s misused power.”
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| More Best Books of the Year
With year-end lists rolling in, we’re keeping tabs on books featured from Consortium publishers. Browse all 2023 coverage highlights, and check out what’s new this week:
Booklist, “Editors’ Choice: Graphic Novels, 2023”
- Mothers Don’t by Katixa Agirre, trans. Katie Whittemore (Open Letter)
- The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier, trans. Daniel Levin Becker (Transit Books)
- Monster-Scared by Betina Birkjær, illus. Zarah Juul (Transit Children’s Editions)
Vulture, “The Best Memoirs of 2023”
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| | Orders of Service
by Willie Lee Kinard III
Alice James Books • November 2023 • 9781949944570
★ “Kinard’s ambitious debut weaves disparate elements to create a textured consideration of queer Black identity in the deep South.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | Theophanies
by Sarah Ghazal Ali
Alice James Books • January 2024 • 9781949944587
★ “In this expansive debut collection, Ali draws from the Quran and the Bible as vehicles for a deeper consideration of the intersections of family, gender, and faith.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | The Innocents
by Bridget Walsh
Gallic Books • March 2024 • 9781913547523
★ “In Walsh’s triumphant sequel to The Tumbling Girl, writer and amateur detective Minnie Ward is reluctantly pulled into the investigation of a potential murder spree in late-19th-century London. . . . This series merits a long run.” — Publishers Weekly
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“The trueness of this anthology lies not just in its celebration of Sri Lanka’s multilingual traditions, but in its recognition that poets writing about the country in various languages and from different locations can converse and, at times, speak as one.” — Harvard Review
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“Al-Maqtari’s ambition is to remind us of the only thing we really need to know: facing the war’s unpredictable savagery, bearing its extreme suffering, are real people. Their fate is all that should matter.” — New York Review of Books
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| New Digital Review Copies
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Coyote’s Wild Home
by Barbara Kingsolver and Lily Kingsolver, illus. Paul Mirocha
Gryphon Press • November 2023 • 9780940719484
“This important story is told from two different viewpoints and the beautifully illustrations make you feel like you are inside the forest!” — Melissa Fitzgerald, Watermark Books & Café (Wichita, KS)
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On December 11, The Economist highlighted Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83, translated by Roland Glasser (Deep Vellum Publishing), among books to read about the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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