Hot News This Week
September 5, 2024
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| Three novels from Consortium publishers are longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize recognizing excellence in Canadian fiction:
- Bad Land by Corinna Chong (Arsenal Pulp Press)
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| Indie Picks for Fall in PW
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| A Silly Story for Kindergarteners in the New York Times Book Review
On August 30, Klara Persson’s Mine!: A Story of Not Sharing, illustrated by Charlotte Ramel and translated by Nichola Smalley, was featured in the New York Times Book Review as a recommended book for kids starting kindergarten. “Humor can be a great antidote for didacticism,” writes children’s book author and librarian Travis Jonker in the piece, “and this Swedish import about the eternal challenge of sharing will have children (and grown-ups) laughing at the ridiculousness of taking selfishness to the extreme. . . . Readers will recognize the silliness of keeping everything to oneself.”
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| | The Lodgers
by Holly Pester
Assembly Press • September 2024 • 9781738009862
“A stream of consciousness portrait of two temporary living situations. Our narrator tells us about renting a room from a woman and her young daughter, and subletting from someone she hasn’t met.” — Annie Tate Cockrum, First Light Books (Austin, TX)
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| | May Our Joy Endure
by Kevin Lambert, trans. Donald Winkler
Biblioasis • September 2024 • 9781771966207
“An astute tragicomedy of manners documenting the rise and fall of a billionaire architect. . . . I was completely drawn into the charismatic orbit of this book.” — James Crossley, Leviathan Bookstore (St. Louis, MO)
“Kevin Lambert is one of our greatest living novelists and May Our Joy Endure is his best book.” — Douglas Riggs, Bank Square Books (Mystic, CT)
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| | Love, Leda
by Mark Hyatt
Nightboat Books • October 2024 • 9781643622453
“Depressing, hopeful, witty and truly a work of art. . . . Love, Leda is an intensely introspective, deep dive into the gay scene of 1960s London. Captivating in its singularity, this book showcases human loneliness as our most shared experience.” — Kahill Perkins, Raven Book Store (Lawrence, KS)
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| | Sound Museum
by poupeh missaghi
Coffee House Press • October 2024 • 9781566896993
★ “As much as readers might squirm as the narrator uses works opposed to torture to justify torture, the overall effect is one of a horror in which everyone is complicit. A taut, searing tour of modern atrocities.” — Kirkus Reviews
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| | Love Prodigal
by Traci Brimhall
Copper Canyon Press • November 2024 • 9781556597022
★ “A deep plunge into the pain of love lost through divorce and the slow scramble to recovery. . . . Brimhall addresses life’s everyday suffering in astonishing language that will attract a wide range of readers. Highly recommended.” — Library Journal
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| | Way Back Then
by Germaine Arnattaujuq and Neil Christopher, illus. Germaine Arnattaujuq
Inhabit Media • November 2024 • 9781772275209
★ “A bilingual sampler—cold of setting but warm of spirit. . . . An Inuit father lovingly regales his sleepy kuluit with bedtime tales of tiny people, giant polar bears, flying igluit, children born from the land rather than human mothers, and other wonders ‘way back then.’” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “Magical and fresh, this is easily one of the best graphic novels of the year. . . . Modern and topical yet timeless, deeply moving and impactful while also lighthearted. The artwork feels just as iconic and enduring.” — School Library Journal
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★ “Shawl wows in this alternate history of the Beat generation told through the diaries of an overlooked Black poet. . . . This concise novel packs a powerful punch.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | New Digital Review Copies
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Time of the Flies
by Claudia Piñeiro, trans. Frances Riddle
Charco Press • August 2024 • 9781913867867
“After their release from jail, friends Ines and Manca form FFF (Females, Fumigations and Flies) focused on non-toxic pest control and private investigation by women for women. . . . An unforgettable book about strong women, mothers and daughters and revenge! Highly recommended!” — Caitlin Luce Baker, Island Books (Mercer Island, WA)
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Last month, the Electronic Intifada published October 2023 diary entries by Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, excerpts that will also be included in If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose (OR Books), a posthumous collection of Alareer’s work compiled with an introduction by Yousef M. Aljamal.
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In an interview with Elle on Wednesday, author Rachel Kushner recommended Jean-Patrick Manchette’s “vicious and hilarious” Three to Kill, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith (City Lights Publishers), as a book that “kept [her] up way too late.”
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Christina Ward, Feral House vp/editor and author of Holy Food and Preservation, was quoted in a recent Washington Post story about publishing new books around a presidential election.
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ABA Bestseller
Loving Corrections
by adrienne maree brown
AK Press • August 2024 • 9781849355544
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