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May 25, 2023
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For the June 8 issue of the New York Review of Books, critic Vivian Gornick reviewed Marina Jarre’s Return to Latvia and Distant Fathers, calling their insights a “gift to the reader.” In these two memoirs, translated by Ann Goldstein and published by New Vessel Press, “Jarre makes us feel the hard, dull ache of the spiritual aloneness that countless lives endure,” writes Gornick, “even—no, perhaps especially—when those lives are taking place in the shadow of a dramatic world war.”
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“Melle has written a shockingly detailed memoir of his two episodes of manic-depressive psychosis. Melle’s brilliance and creativity shine on every page.” — Kay Wosewick, Boswell Book Company (Milwaukee, WI)
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| | Of Cattle and Men
by Ana Paula Maia, trans. Zoë Perry
Charco Press • April 2023 • 9781913867492
“If Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals was an A24 horror production a la Cormac McCarthy.” — Spencer Ruchti, Third Place Books (Seattle, WA)
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| Book of the Times: NB by J.C.
On Tuesday, critic Dwight Garner reviewed James Campbell’s NB by J.C.: A Walk Through the Times Literary Supplement in the New York Times. “One part of the TLS no one skips, in my experience, is the NB column,” writes Garner. “[Campbell] was a good steward of the column, and his best material has been collected now in NB by J.C.: A Walk Through the Times Literary Supplement. . . . His droll NB skewered pomposity in its many forms.” NB by J.C. also received a strong review in the Washington Post, and Campbell wrote about Martin Amis’s legacy (“the bad boy was good. In many respects very good”) in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal.
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| “Heavy-Metal Mysticism” in the Boston Globe
Janaka Stucky, Black Ocean publisher and author of Ascend Ascend, was profiled in the Boston Globe on May 22. “His poetry, terse but packed with phantasmagoric imagery, is steeped in mortality,” according to the piece, which also surveys Stucky’s “occult performance, trance-induced writing exercises, and a stage persona rooted in the dense, heavy sound of doom metal.” Read the full piece here.
Ascend Ascend
by Janaka Stucky
Third Man Books • April 2019 • 9780997457834
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“The Sistine Chapel serves as the inspiration and structure for this deeply contemplative account about life, family, art and appreciation.” — New York Times Book Review
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“The San Gabriel Valley becomes the surreal stage of the stories in Carribean Fragoza’s excellent 2021 collection, Eat the Mouth That Feeds You.” — New York Times Book Review
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| | Elena Knows
by Claudia Piñeiro, trans. Frances Riddle
Charco Press • July 2021 • 9781999368432
“I was almost able to comprehend—even just for a moment—the incredible multitude of perspectives that exist in this world at once. And isn’t that the point of fiction, after all?” — The Atlantic
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“A brilliant and brutal collection of 12 stories . . . These are wildly imaginative and seriously dark!” — Liberty Hardy, Book Riot
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