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April 13, 2023
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There will be no Communiqué next Thursday while we attend TLA, so look for us back in your inbox on April 27. Thanks! —Jordan
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Two authors from Consortium publishers are among Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists, a prestigious honor bestowed every ten years upon the twenty most significant British novelists under forty. Major congratulations to Derek Owusu, author of the forthcoming That Reminds Me (And Other Stories), and Camilla Grudova, author of The Doll’s Alphabet (Coffee House Press).
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“Marshall’s book sits comfortably alongside Berger in terms of ruminating on why art makes us feel things and resonates extra in this Catholic raised (and now just guilt ridden) bookseller. . . . Highly recommended!” — Douglas Riggs, Bank Square Books (Mystic, CT)
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| Three Plays Opening on Broadway This Month
Fat Ham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by James Ijames, celebrated its opening night on Broadway yesterday with rave reviews. Ijames’s “raucous domestic comedy,” based on Hamlet, is “capacious and original,” according to the New York Times, and “it does one of the most important things we ask of theater: to rehearse, as many times as necessary, better ways to be—instead of choosing not to.” Read more about the play via reviews in Variety, Daily Beast, The Wrap, and many more.
Fat Ham
by James Ijames
Theatre Communications Group • June 2023 • 9781636701684
Prima Facie
by Suzie Miller
Theatre Communications Group / Nick Hern Books • October 2022 • 9781839040641
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, April 18.
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| | Tell the Rest
by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Akashic Books • March 2023 • 9781636140797
★ “Writing in a graceful, fluid style, Bledsoe examines life in Rockside in all its dimensions. . . . Both insightful and page-turning; highly recommended.” — Library Journal
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★ “There’s a life packed inside the pages of this slim novel. . . . The prose is stunning. By novel’s end, the reader is left feeling as though they’ve experienced another person’s life, both the ecstatic heights and harrowing depths.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “Amusing, disturbing, intoxicating . . . Mari has been compared to Kafka and Borges for his unnerving yet humorous excavations of the psyche in which the pulpy influence of speculative fiction and pop art surfaces and glistens.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “Impassioned, wry, compassionate, and hell-raising . . . A resplendent and fearless book. Must read.” — Kirkus Reviews
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| | Happy Stories, Mostly
by Norman Erikson Pasaribu, trans. Tiffany Tsao
Feminist Press • June 2023 • 9781952177057
★ “A remarkable collection of speculative and absurdist fiction incorporating Batak and Christian culture. . . . This is sure to get people talking.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | To 2040
by Jorie Graham
Copper Canyon Press • April 2023 • 9781556596773
“The urgency of the poet as messenger animates Graham’s new collection, To 2040, her tenth since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1996. Its poems address the demise of the world . . . which has provided poetry with so much of its material and its source of power.” — The Atlantic
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“After she flees the pillaging of her Greek village, a 15-year-old girl is sold to a wealthy Muslim man and encounters hidden mountain communities on her way to Constantinople in the final, tumultuous days of the collapsing Ottoman Empire.” — New York Times Book Review
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| | Sweet Undoings
by Yanick Lahens, trans. Kaiama L. Glover
Deep Vellum Publishing • April 2023 • 9781646052158
“Set in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, this sweeping yet intimate novel follows a cast of characters reeling from the absence of a judge who was assassinated years earlier for crusading against rampant corruption.” — New York Times Book Review
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| | Mulysses
by Øyvind Torseter, trans. Kari Dickson
Enchanted Lion Books • April 2023 • 9781592702763
“[The] hero-narrator, a cute mule-like chap who also appears in Torseter’s The Heartless Troll and The Hole, reminds me of Tove Jansson’s Moomintroll . . . I can picture an adult reading it with a child and both being happy. Mulysses is an engaging little mash-up that is, thankfully, no mess at all.” — New York Times Book Review
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| New Digital Review Copies
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Four in Hand
by Alicia Mountain
BOA Editions • April 2023 • 9781950774869
“Mountain delivers a work of raptured lust in this skillful consideration of romantic vulnerability” — Publishers Weekly
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Titles from Consortium publishers Arsenal Pulp Press, Coffee House Press, and Nightboat Books are among the finalists for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Awards.
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