Hot News This Week
June 8, 2023
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Ahead of tomorrow’s 2023 Lambda Literary Awards ceremony, check out Consortium finalist titles from Alice James Books, Arsenal Pulp Press, Bywater Books, Coffee House Press, Nightboat Books, Saqi Books, Sarabande Books, Street Noise Books, and Theatre Communications Group/Playwrights Canada Press.
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| | Happy Stories, Mostly
by Norman Erikson Pasaribu, trans. Tiffany Tsao
Feminist Press • June 2023 • 9781952177057
“Happy Stories, Mostly is a collection unlike others. Through speculative stories focused on queerness and religion in Indonesia, Pasaribu complicates the relationships we hold dear.” — Nikita Imafidon, Raven Book Store (Lawrence, KS)
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| | Café Unfiltered
by Jean-Philippe Blondel, trans. Alison Anderson
New Vessel Press • July 2023 • 9781954404205
“In a provincial French café late in the current pandemic, customers cautiously resume socializing. . . . Warm, sweet, and sad, Café Unfiltered quietly lays bare the hopes and regrets of human existence.” — Grace Harper, Mac’s Backs (Cleveland Heights, OH)
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| Etel Adnan’s Artistic Legacy
The June 8 issue of the New York Review of Books features a cover story on poet and painter Etel Adnan. Writer Yasmine El Rashidi notes how it was a “sense of urgency to see and document and create in every form that earned Adnan her cultlike status.”
Read the full NYRB piece and browse Adnan’s titles from City Lights Publishers, Nightboat Books, and Theatre Communications Group/PAJ Publications—including The Beauty of Light, an interview with Adnan conducted by Laure Adler in the months before her death.
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, June 13.
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★ “Insidiously intriguing . . . nine fantastical stories showcase alternate realities in which characters confront or conform to systems of belief that threaten their worlds.” — Kirkus Reviews
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“An engaging time capsule capturing the thoughts and artwork Chuck D. . . . The co-founder and front man of legendary hip hop group Public Enemy unleashes his commentary on contemporary events with the activist instinct that made the hip hop pioneers a social message phenomenon.” — Ebony
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“This book should serve as a primary source for those hoping to understand the sacrifices Black women writers have made to ensure that their art is always accountable to its political and social context.” — The Nation
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“I absolutely melted into Your Love is Not Good. With its lean, disciplined prose and intellectual / artistic / erotic provocations, it is a novel demanding patient consideration while slyly, slowly seducing the reader with Hedva’s electric vision.” — Wesley Minter, Third Place Books (Seattle, WA)
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