Hot News This Week
February 2, 2023
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We’re thrilled to see the National Book Critics Circle honor City Lights with the 2022 Toni Morrison Achievement Award! “Far more than a press or a bookshop,” says prize committee chair Jacob M. Appel, “City Lights shines as a beacon for innovation and justice and as a guiding flare for readers and writers across the globe who dream of a better world.”
A City Lights poetry title is also up for an NBCC award this year, alongside three other Consortium finalists. Read on for more . . .
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“I want to be Klyde’s friend! The art is so happy and fun, and the book teaches an important lesson about respecting personal space.”—Max Chase, The Bookloft (Great Barrington, MA)
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Congrats, all! We’ll be cheering these books on when winners are crowned on March 23.
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Feb. 7.
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★ “Mitchell eloquently humanizes Azari’s asylum seeker struggle with haunting passages that will make readers empathize with Azari.”—School Library Journal
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★ “The stories are queer, hopeful, and eerie, celebrating the rebellious spirits of both immortal-feeling youth and resilient elder protagonists.”—Booklist
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“I’m not sure I’ve ever read anything that is so much about loving written language. . . . [The] book posits that the printing press and the Renaissance were, among other things, the start of everything going wrong for humanity. These chapters are serious and fascinating.”—Alta
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New Digital Review Copies
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Your Hearts, Your Scars
by Adina Talve-Goodman, ed. Sarika Talve-Goodman and Hannah Tinti
Bellevue Literary Press • January 2023 • 9781954276055
“This posthumous collection of essays on coming of age as a heart transplant recipient exposes so much of the human condition from the perspective of a young woman wrestling with her mortality.”—Arvin Ramgoolam, Townie Books (Crested Butte, CO)
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The Yale Review featured a poem from Common Life by Stéphane Bouquet, translated by Lindsey Turner (Nightboat Books), on January 25.
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