Hot News This Week
November 10, 2022
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“Writing about the fundamental mechanics of language and narrative is kinda like trying to chop down a tree, with another tree. Gladman comes closer than any other writer I've read at pulling off this impossible feat. Plans for Sentences is complex, challenging, and strangely beautiful and there are phrases that will make every writer sigh.”—Josh Cook, Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA)
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Suzette Mayr Wins the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize
On Monday, Suzette Mayr was crowned winner of the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel The Sleeping Car Porter! The prize recognizes the best work in Canadian fiction and comes with a purse of $100,000. The Sleeping Car Porter—one of Publishers Weekly’s best books of the year—is out now from Coach House Books and tells the story of a queer Black sleeping car porter contending with the perils of white passengers, a clandestine love affair, and the hallucinatory effects of sleep deprivation.
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Best Books of the Year
With year-end lists rolling in, we’re keeping tabs on all the books featured from Consortium publishers. Browse more 2022 coverage highlights, and check out what’s new this week:
- Solenoid by Mircea Cartarescu, trans. Sean Cotter (Deep Vellum Publishing)
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Nov. 15.
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| | Two Sherpas
by Sebastián Martínez Daniell, trans. Jennifer Croft
Charco Press • February 2023 • 9781913867416
★ “Daniell reveals a fascinating universe in scintillating prose, precisely translated by Croft. . . . It’s a stunner.”—Publishers Weekly
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★ “Pondering the mysteries of existence and artistic influence, this engrossing work turns the quest for self-knowledge into a choral act.”—Publishers Weekly
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| | The Birthday Party
by Laurent Mauvignier, trans. Daniel Levin Becker
Transit Books • January 2023 • 9781945492655
★ “A compelling blend of mystery, horror, and suspense. . . . A woman’s 40th birthday soiree doesn’t go as planned in this psychological thriller.”—Kirkus Reviews
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“[In] these exquisitely nasty tales . . . the characters eloquently philosophize about their predicaments, but that makes their fates no less savage, only more absurd.”—Wall Street Journal
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“Powerfully intimate . . . A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter exists in a recent tradition of epistolary memoirs by leery parents (or prospective ones) careening between hope and anxiety on the page: from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me to Warmth, by Daniel Sherrell.”—New York Times Book Review
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| | Solenoid
by Mircea Cartarescu, trans. Sean Cotter
Deep Vellum Publishing • October 2022 • 9781646052028
“As in the work of Kafka, whose diaries the narrator adores, the book’s horror and humor are born from examining ‘the tragic anomaly of the spirit dressed in flesh.’”—New Yorker
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“Conjuring realms of kindly animals and witty, serendipitous delights, Kaya Doi’s work exudes real childhood magic . . . in cozy, soft and inviting pictures.”—Wall Street Journal
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“This beautiful, thought-provoking, and haunting novel, which is captivating in its poetic portrayal of a rural tragedy, reminds us that everything is a miracle.”—World Literature Today
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“Singularly imagined and formally experimental, Li’s scenes possess the cool contemporary melodrama of a Wong Kar-wai picture.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
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Case Study
by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Biblioasis • November 2022 • 9781771965200
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