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February 16, 2023
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Happy 50th anniversary to our friends at Copper Canyon! The press is marking the major milestone with a celebratory anthology, several poetry bashes, and a brand-new pressmark.
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| | Snap!
by Anna Walker
Scribble • May 2023 • 9781957363240
“This book pairs vibrant watercolors and jubilant sound, making the environment practically bubble off of every page.”—Kendall Futrell, Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA)
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| The United States Board on Books for Young People selected nine titles from Consortium publishers for their 2023 Outstanding International Books List, honoring these children’s books for their exceptional quality and globe-spanning origins:
- When the Sakura Bloom by Narisa Togo (Berbay Publishing)
- All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa by Richard Conyngham, illus. Dada Khanyisa, Liz Clarke, Saaid Rahbeeni, et al. (Catalyst Press)
- Bedtime for Bo by Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, illus. Mari Kanstad Johnsen, trans. Kari Dickson (Enchanted Lion Books)
- Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda, illus. Paloma Valdivia, trans. Sara Lissa Paulson (Enchanted Lion Books)
- A Kunwinjku Counting Book by Gabriel Maralngurra (Enchanted Lion Books)
- Telling Stories Wrong by Gianni Rodari, illus. Beatrice Alemagna (Enchanted Lion Books)
- The Depth of the Lake and the Height of the Sky by Jihyun Kim (Floris Books)
- Dreams of Near and Far by Martin Widmark, illus. Emilia Dziubak (Floris Books)
- Wolfstongue by Sam Thompson, illus. Anna Tromop (Little Island Books)
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| Read This Next: Stephen Marche’s On Writing and Failure
On Writing and Failure by Stephen Marche was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air on February 14. “When the stars are aligned, someone writes a work as provocative, informed and droll as On Writing and Failure,” says critic Maureen Corrigan in the segment, and she praised the “buoyant and funny” writing style and highlighted it as an entry in the Field Notes series from Biblioasis. The book has also twice appeared in the New York Times Book Review, with an excerpt on February 11 and a “Newly Published” feature on February 12 that highlights how Marche’s work explores “the defining role rejection has played in his career” and reflects on “its importance in the lives of notable writers, from Ovid to Dostoyevsky and Baldwin.”
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| Celebrating Two PEN Award Finalists
Blood Snow
by dg nanouk okpik
Wave Books • October 2022 • 9781950268634
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Feb. 21.
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★ “Sensational . . . Equally thrilling and thought-provoking, this will put readers in mind of speculative greats like Octavia Butler and Samuel R. Delaney.” —Publishers Weekly
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| | Village
by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
Coffee House Press • February 2023 • 9781566896610
★ “Diggs delivers a potent second collection that explores themes of place, poverty, and trauma. . . . This is a dazzling and impressive work.” —Publishers Weekly
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“First published in 1984, this collection gathers Tate’s conversations with notable writers, from Gwendolyn Brooks to Toni Morrison, in interviews that focus on their audiences, responsibilities and the overlap between their work and lived experiences as Black women in America.” —New York Times Book Review
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| New Digital Review Copies
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Night Letter
by Sterling Watson
Akashic Books • January 2023 • 9781636140636
★ “Amid the classic noir elements, author Sterling Watson slow-rolls a moving reflection on the costs to the human heart of vast social and economic change.”
—Vulture
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