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October 13, 2022
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“A stunner—a bold visual history of workers’ struggles; a mini-memoir of Wallman’s time working as a picker (and shop floor organizer) in an Amazon warehouse; and a compelling intro-slash-invitation to union activism.”—Tove H., Powell’s Books (Portland, OR)
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Horror and Fantasy by Latin American Women Writers
On October 10, two Consortium titles—Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s Little Bird (translated by Lily Meyer) and Mónica Ojeda’s Jawbone (translated by Sarah Booker)—appeared in a New York Times story on Latin American women writers “using fantasy, horror and the unfamiliar to unsettle readers and critique social ills.” In the piece, writer Benjamin P. Russell calls attention to the “strange” and “dreamlike” stories in Little Bird, and he points out how “prize committees, both inside and outside Latin America, are taking note,” as in the case of Jawbone, a current finalist for the 2022 National Book Award in translated literature.
Little Bird
by Claudia Ulloa Donoso, trans. Lily Meyer
Deep Vellum Publishing • August 2021 • 9781646050659
Jawbone
by Mónica Ojeda, trans. Sarah Booker
Coffee House Press • February 2022 • 9781566896214
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Loan Sharks and Stage Productions in the New York Times
Two authors known for their stage work were recently featured in the New York Times. In an interview on October 9, magician and author Penn Jillette spoke with the Times about writing magic acts for Penn & Teller versus writing fiction. Random, his new novel “about a young man who inherits his father’s crushing debt to a loan shark and turns to dice,” is out now from Akashic Books.
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks was also featured in the NYT on October 9. The first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama, Parks has four shows with major productions this season, two of which are published by Theatre Communications Group: the Pulitzer-winning Topdog/Underdog, and the forthcoming Plays for the Plague Year.
Random
by Penn Jillette
Akashic Books • October 2022 • 9781636140711
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“[An] engaging new Dust Bowl-era mystery . . . Reading Funeral Train feels like being catapulted back in time to experience the 1930s at an almost unbearably visceral level.”—New York Times Book Review
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“It’s a wonderfully entertaining book, an account of how its Canadian author grew fascinated with a literary jape, a kind of role-playing game or shared-world fantasy involving some of the most eccentric and some of the most famous writers of modern times.”—Washington Post
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“Graham’s great subject since her first book was published, in 1980, has always been and continues to be human consciousness, the manifold and many-folded self. The vastness of mind contained within the fragile column of the body.”—New York Times Book Review
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New Digital Review Copies
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“Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha teaches us that disability justice is a possible world that already exists, full of the love we deserve and the complexity we already embody.”—Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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On October 6, The Nation published Shiv Kotecha’s foreword to My Manservant and Me by Hervé Guibert, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman (Nightboat Books).
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