Hot News This Week
March 7, 2024
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| | Ghost Pains
by Jessi Jezewska Stevens
And Other Stories • March 2024 • 9781913505844
“Elegant and off-kilter like a party gone awry, these stories drift and sting through modern dreams of synergy and the ongoing life of the past.” — Nora Sternlof, R.J. Julia Booksellers (Madison, CT)
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| | Short War
by Lily Meyer
Deep Vellum / A Strange Object • April 2024 • 9781646053155
“From socialist Chile to suburban America, Meyer’s shapeshifting, unsentimental debut is delightful, assured, terrifying, serious, and hilarious all at once. Here is the rare novel about war, betrayal, family, love, lust, and above all obsession—all gracefully delivered without breaking a sweat.” — Patrick Nathan, SubText Books (St. Paul, MN)
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| Read This Next: a Scandinavian Novel with a “Spectral, Haunted Atmosphere”
Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s Your Absence Is Darkness was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and Wall Street Journal this week. In his lengthy NYTBR piece on the novel, author Daniel Mason praises Stefansson’s “unique voice, his stunning imagery and his expansive, sympathetic score of human experience” that is “rendered here in a tumblingly beautiful translation by Philip Roughton.” According to WSJ critic Sam Sacks, “Like fellow Scandinavian authors Jon Fosse and Karl Ove Knausgaard, Mr. Stefánsson joins plainspoken depictions of daily life to intimations of mysticism, creating a spectral, haunted atmosphere.” Your Absence Is Darkness is an Indie Next pick this month, and it received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.
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| Watch Diane Foley on ABC News
“I want the average American to know that they can make a difference. . . . And I also want folks to value our journalists.” On Wednesday, Diane Foley was interviewed on ABC News about her son’s legacy and American Mother, co-authored with Colum McCann. She also spoke with the Washington Post about the book on March 4.
American Mother
by Colum McCann and Diane Foley
Etruscan Press • March 2024 • 9798985882452
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| | The Egg Incident
by Ziggy Hanaor, illus. Daisy Wynter
Cicada Books • April 2024 • 9781800660434
★ “All readers will be able to appreciate the story of Humphrey ‘coming out of his shell’ and teaching his family how to do the same. In an added bonus, readers learn what really happened to Humpty. A first purchase for all libraries and the best of what graphic novels have to offer.” — School Library Journal
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★ “Each of these six enthralling speculative shorts from Lillard explores female agency to powerful effect. . . . Brief but mighty, this packs a hefty punch.” — Publishers Weekly
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| New Digital Review Copies
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“In the 12 poignant and humorous stories of her debut collection, Julia Ridley Smith’s women experience romance, motherhood, friendship, and more. Sex Romp Gone Wrong is wildly entertaining and profoundly thoughtful.” — Shelf Awareness
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Three of the five titles shortlisted for the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize (United States and Canada) are from Consortium publishers: Two Sherpas by Sebastián Martínez Daniell, translated by Jennifer Croft (Charco Press); Lojman by Ebru Ojen, translated by Aron Aji and Selin Gökçesu (City Lights Publishers); and The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier, translated by Daniel Levin Becker (Transit Books).
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