Communiqué: 4 NBCC Finalists and a Major Award for 🏅
Plus, a 2nd starred review for Lost Places from and so much more in this week's dispatch: bit.ly/3RuWGfC
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Congratulations to the finalists for the 2022 NBCC Award for Criticism!
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Congratulations to the finalists for the 2022 NBCC Award for Poetry!
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Congratulations to the finalists for the 2022 NBCC Award for Fiction!
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Congratulations to the finalists for the 2022 NBCC Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize!
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The hits keep coming for Hit Girls! NPR Music featured an interview with author Jen B. Larson. You can read the entire thing by signing up for their newsletter (see link). Thank you, Marissa Lorusso!
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Thrilled to see books from CLMP members & on this list from fellow CLMP member !
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+ Sneak peeks at forthcoming titles from , , , and 🔎plus, reviews in the trade for , , and 📰
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Whoa. We’ve forgotten to show you three whole Taylors! Without further ado: WEDNESDAY TAYLOR! Anna Moschovakis (US ; CAN )
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Thank you, & for including our upcoming Tomorrow, Tomorrow Insha Allah by ! We're proud to bring Sara's debut to American readers.
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"Doireann Ní Ghríofa imagines the life of Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, an Irish noblewoman in the 1700s who writes a poem about the murder of her husband, and interweaves her tale with a young mother in present day Ireland who becomes obsessed with Eibhlín and her poem."
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New Tuesday, new releases! 📚 Click here for more top titles publishing today: edelweiss.plus/#catalogID=482
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There's no law that says you have to read a story collection straight through. Instead dip in and out of books such as these recommended by . bit.ly/3XyhRQ3
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🎉 In today's NYT! 🎉 Martin Riker () on Laurent Mauvignier's THE BIRTHDAY PARTY (tr. ), which he calls "a real-time study in crippling self-consciousness, the fragility of normalcy, and the reality of violence."
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Attention Feral Kids! We're celebrating the publication of Mahendra Singh's The Extraordinary Adventures of Little Krishna w/Wes Tank's live stream Tuesday Study Hall at 11am (CST). Tune in live or catch the archive but do watch! #ChildrensBooks #Krishna youtube.com/channel/UCcuLS
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Looking for the latest hot news in the world of indie publishing? Check out newest dispatch of the Communiqué: Fierce Suspense and Literary Longlists ✨ bit.ly/3HFkhXN
Plus, major reviews for The Birthday Party () and an important note from !
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Thrilled to see POLLAK'S ARM on the Republic of Consciousness Prize long list: newvesselpress.com/books/pollaks-
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So exciting to see MOTHERFIELD (Julia , trans. and ) in such good company on the Award for Poetry in Translation Longlist! Congrats to these wonderful writers and all others honored.
See the full lists(s):
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“Fashion Reimagined: Themes and Variations, 1760-Now” opened Dec. 10 at Mint Museum Uptown, and runs through July 2.
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Calling all Texans and library-goers 📢 Pauline Baer Perignon’s The Vanished Collection, translated by Natasha Lehrer (), is included on the ’s Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List.
TWO books from Copper Canyon Press were longlisted for 's 2023 PEN/Voelcker award for Poetry🎉 🎉 Much applause for SMOKING THE BIBLE by and [TO] THE LAST [BE] HUMAN by for being amongst such a fantastic group:
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"In a time of ecological doom, there is gorgeous comfort—if only momentary—in Sikelianos’s deep histories and epic sensibility."
Lovely words on Eleni Sikelianos's YOUR KINGDOM from via . More on this "book of hearts" ⬇️
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Big wonderful news--PEN America longlists are out, and and and and and and grad Jonathan Escoffier are all in the running. bit.ly/3HlEba2
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I'm so proud to have translated this book. The author, the great Sylvia Molloy, read my translation just before she died, which I am also so grateful for. Precise and heartbreaking and beautiful and profound, Dislocations is out now from .
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New year, new reads! Take 's advice, pick up Anne Waldman's BARD, KINETIC and some other juicy new releases they've picked fresh for you 🍊
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New Tuesday, new releases! 📚 Click here for more top titles publishing today: edelweiss.plus/#catalogID=482
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I still don’t want / to leave my want for this place behind. If I were to try again: whales, / white spiders in caves, and all those simple stones that carry no trace of us.
Today’s poem is “Night Terrors in America” by CJ Evans bit.ly/3D8LOyh
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I'm putting together the resource section for this book due out April 4. Best organizations and resources for climate action you know? Globally, of course! THANK YOU!
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🎉💐 CONGRATULATIONS to , US translator of 's JAWBONE and Translation Prize longlister! 💐🎉
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We're honored to announce the longlist for the 2023 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE, which is awarded to a book-length #translation of prose from any language into English: pen.org/literary-award #PENLitAwards #2023PENLitAwards
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Kick off your 2023 with three new books from Consortium publishers featured in 's list of must-read paperbacks coming this year: Fat Off, Fat On (), The Fifth Wound (), and The Book of Eve ()!
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Absolutely thrilled that JAWBONE by is on the Longlist for the Translation Prize!!! Huge congratulations to all the other amazing longlisters!
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We're honored to announce the longlist for the 2023 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE, which is awarded to a book-length #translation of prose from any language into English: pen.org/literary-award #PENLitAwards #2023PENLitAwards
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We're honored to announce the longlist for the 2023 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY, which recognizes a writer whose collection of essays expands on their corpus of work & preserves the art form of the essay: pen.org/literary-award
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We're honored to announce the longlist for the 2023 PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATION, which is awarded to a book-length translation of poetry from any language into English: pen.org/literary-award #PENLitAwards #2023PENLitAwards #Poetry #Translation
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We're honored to announce the longlist for the 2023 PEN/VOELCKER AWARD FOR POETRY COLLECTION, which is awarded to a poet whose distinguished collection of #poetry represents a notable and accomplished literary presence: pen.org/literary-award #PENLitAwards #2023PENLitAwards
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Did you miss last week's Communiqué? Catch up on all the latest hot news from pulpy thrills and celestial wonder to must-read paperbacks here: bit.ly/3wogIPb
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