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May 4, 2023
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NAEYC issued a response in support of the book and its research-backed approach:
We stand behind the principles of DAP. We trust the expertise and experiences of early childhood educators working with families to ensure young children can learn and thrive in our diverse world. And we bring our voices together to provide clarity and support for our continued, collective work to ensure that all young children can access high-quality, developmentally-appropriate early learning experiences across all states, settings, and communities
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“Each of these tales grabs the reader like an enchantment. . . . Lebedev possesses prodigious powers of description that can make even a barn into an otherworldly object of fascination, as well as the knack for a well-placed, creepy detail that sends a chill up the reader’s spine.” — Jennifer K., Powell’s Books (Portland, OR)
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| 8 TCG Tony Award Nominees
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| Coming This Fall: an Oral History of David Lynch’s Dune
As reported yesterday by Nerdist, 1984 Publishing has announced the coming release of A Masterpiece in Disarray by Max Evry, an oral history of David Lynch’s Dune (1984). In the book, set for publication in September, journalist Evry goes behind the scenes of Lynch’s adaptation of the beloved Frank Herbert sci-fi novel with new interviews from the film’s stars (Kyle MacLachlan, Sean Young, Virginia Madsen), creatives, execs, and insiders—as well as Lynch himself.
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| NY Mag on Jorie Graham and To 2040, “the Best Book of Her Long Career”
The May 8 issue of New York Magazine features a lengthy profile of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham, who wrote her latest book, To 2040, while living with cancer and coping with her mother’s death. “There is no one in the world of poetry who hasn’t read her, formed an opinion of her, heard or told or recast a story about her,” according to writer Kerry Howley in the piece. “A Jorie Graham poem is a deep burrow into a position from which one can gather nothing but the sense of being terribly alive. . . . It is Graham’s unearthly self-possession in the presence of mystery that renders her poetry so strange.”
To 2040
by Jorie Graham
Copper Canyon Press • April 2023 • 9781556596773
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| The Unconventional Novels of Anne Garréta
A major essay on Anne Garréta’s fiction appears in the May 11 issue of the New York Review of Books. “Three of her novels have been translated into English,” writes critic Nicole Rudick, “all marvelously rendered by Emma Ramadan: Sphinx, Not One Day, and In Concrete. They are familiar types of stories—love affair, confessional, and family farce, respectively—told in unconventional ways.” In Not One Day, released in the US in February, an unnamed narrator describes a series of affairs in which “the varieties of desire aren’t predicated on which pronouns are in use.” Read the full piece here.
Not One Day
by Anne Garréta, trans. Emma Ramadan
Deep Vellum Publishing • February 2023 • 9781646052059
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★ “A focused, fresh, urgent text . . . Chuck D uses his art and hip-hop rhymes to show how the US has been held hostage by gun violence and a growing sense of hopelessness.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “Galang’s masterly latest takes on xenophobia, racism, and other ills via stories of strong Filipino women. . . . This is a winner.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “This atmospheric debut historical mystery captures the world of music halls and the danger to women in Victorian London.” — Library Journal
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“By the time Pagnano took these luminous black-and-white photos in February 1980, the Crown Heights roller disco had led a nationwide disco craze. . . . This monograph showcases its heydey in all its joy and glory.” — New York Times Book Review
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| | Any Other City
by Hazel Jane Plante
Arsenal Pulp Press • April 2023 • 9781551529110
“What Canadian trans writer Hazel Jane Plante offers in her second book is a way to show a trans life in the making, rather than the sort of coherent narrative we are obliged to construct in retrospect.” — The Nation
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“I recommend reading A Broken Man in Flower not only for its mesmerizing formalist strength and ingenuity, but for its profound importance as a document of courage and resistance against a brutally repressive regime.” — Words Without Borders
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| | Ninth Building
by Zou Jingzhi, trans. Jeremy Tiang
Open Letter • April 2023 • 9781948830751
“These vignettes, drawn from the author’s childhood in Beijing and the Chinese countryside, illustrate the despair and banality of young life during the Cultural Revolution.” — New York Times Book Review
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“In this anthology, 30 parents with various mental and physical disabilities discuss the beauty and challenges of parenting and raising a family in an ableist society.” — New York Times Book Review
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| | Vista Chinesa
by Tatiana Salem Levy, trans. Alison Entrekin
Scribe • May 2023 • 9781957363370
“Set in 2014 Rio de Janeiro, this powerful epistolary novel is narrated by Júlia, an architect reflecting on being ‘torn apart’ by an intimate violation amid the tumult of her city, which is rife with violent fissures of its own.” — New York Times Book Review
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“The 11 stories in this collection follow young trans women as they navigate love, grief and pain in settings ranging from the rattling trains of Brooklyn to a far-flung Mennonite town.” — New York Times Book Review
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Where I Am by Dana Shem-Ur, translated by Yardenne Greenspan (New Vessel Press), is among the Jewish Book Council’s summer reading recommendations.
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Publishers Weekly recently announced that Chuck D, Public Enemy co-founder and author of STEWdio and Summer of Hamn (both Akashic / Enemy Books), will deliver the US Book Show’s lunchtime keynote on May 24.
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