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Author Susan Straight shares her ideal reading experience, her recent favorites, and why she chose to write about nurses during the pandemic in her new book SACRAMENT via @nytimes.com.

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Susan Straight on Her Favorite Books and Her Pandemic Novel ‘Sacrament’
Meeting traveling nurses during the pandemic led to “Sacrament,” her 10th novel. “Our memories will be indelible,” she says, “like my father’s stories of the Dust Bowl.”
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November 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Join Yuliana Ortiz Ruano for a celebration of the release of her new novel CARNAVAL FEVER at CARA NYC! Details and rsvp link here:

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Center for Art, Research and Alliances / CARA
The Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) is an emergent arts nonprofit, research center, and publisher that aims to expand public discourses and historical records to reflect art’s abundant p...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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"The book is about living inside collapse—social, romantic, spiritual—and realizing that irony and sincerity have to coexist if you want to survive."

Out now: @ansonjtong.com's interview w/ Anika Jade Levy on her book "Flat Earth” (@catapultbooks.bsky.social).
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Living Inside Collapse: An Interview with Anika Jade Levy - Chicago Review of Books
I sometimes find myself frustrated and bored by the narrow, grating approach of novels about twenty-somethings lost in New York spending too much time on their phones, but Anika Jade Levy transcends a...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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💥 New review today!

“A thriller with a social consciousness,” MOTHERS by Brenda Lozano (tr. Heather Cleary is out now via @catapultbooks.bsky.social

Read @coryoldweiler.bsky.social’s take below...

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Fear and Love Are like Two Fires | Brenda Lozano’s Mothers
By Cory Oldweiler
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November 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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CASANOVA 20 by Davey Davis is a December 2025 ABA #IndieNext Pick!!! Huge thanks to all of the booksellers who nominated us, we appreciate you immensely! 🫶

Preorder here! books.catapult.co/books/casano...
November 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Philip Marsden's UNDER A METAL SKY is on sale now! 📚

"A dazzling account of humanity’s mystical and perilous relationship with rocks, minerals, and metals. . . This is a wonder."— @publisherswkly.bsky.social (starred 🌟 review)

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November 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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FLAT EARTH is one of 7 new books @vulture.com thinks you should read this November!

"Energetic and episodic. . . . Dazzlingly deadpan and sharp observations about navigating the strange world of now. . . . FLAT EARTH is a delight." — @vulture.com

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7 New Books You Should Read This November
A queer thriller about ’70s Italian cinema, Salman Rushdie’s return to fiction, and an ambitious examination of sexual trauma.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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“When your father dies of AIDS, it’s not like he’s died of heart failure or a stroke.” Read this exclusive excerpt from Russian novelist Oksana Vasyakina’s STEPPE, translated by Elina Alter for
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When Your Father Dies of AIDS, It’s Not Like He’s Died of Heart Failure • Articles • EQUATOR
An excerpt from the novel Steppe, translated from Russian by Elina Alter
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October 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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New episode of A Meal of Thorns! Scholar, writer, and CRSF organizer E.F. McAdam is on the podcast to discuss Hiromi Kawakami's UNDER THE EYE OF THE BIG BIRD (tr. Asa Yoneda, @grantabooks.bsky.social/ @catapultbooks.bsky.social)
A Meal of Thorns 36 – UNDER THE EYE OF THE BIG BIRD with Eleanor McAdam
Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Guest: Eleanor McAdamTitle: Under The Eye Of The Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakam…
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November 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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It's publication day for FLAT EARTH! 🌔 @nytimes.com calls it "witty and poignant" and "funny and sharp."

Read the full review here: buff.ly/ZFarDIL
Book Review: ‘Flat Earth,’ by Anika Jade Levy
In tracing the journeys of two frenemies with art-world aspirations, Anika Jade Levy’s “Flat Earth” distills the angst and aimlessness of a generation.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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"Broadens the reader’s understanding of community beyond flesh-and-blood friends, family and neighbors . . . [Straight's] finest book." — @latimes.com

SACRAMENT is on sale today! 📚 Read the full review:
Review: Susan Straight’s ‘Sacrament’ — her best novel yet — is an ode to California nurses during COVID surge
Susan Straight, considered the bard of overlooked California, sets her 10th novel, 'Sacrament,' in a San Bernardino hospital during the COVID-19 surge in 2020.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Happy pub day to Susan Straight's SACRAMENT! We're thrilled to see it featured as a @people.com featured book of the week! Check the print issue, out on stands now!

✨ "Monumentally moving reminder that heroism and humanity persist even in the midst of chaos."—@people.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Happy paperback pub day to MY PISCES HEART! ♓ ✨

♓ "A gorgeously written memoir of a life well-traveled." —Them

♓ "Neal is both a lyrical writer and an astute historian, studying the complexities of race and Blackness with tenderness and reverence." — @readbookpage.bsky.social (starred ⭐)
October 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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A PLACE CALLED YELLOWSTONE is on sale now in paperback! 🌄

Winner of the NY Historical Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize, A PLACE CALLED YELLOWSTONE explores how Yellowstone’s remote Western landscape became a symbol of our country—and an integral part of our understanding of the natural world.
October 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Don't miss author Randall K. Wilson on 10/29 at Four Seasons Books for the paperback launch of his Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize-winning book A PLACE CALLED YELLOWSTONE! 🌄

✨ "A capably drawn portrait of an iconic American place." —Kirkus Reviews
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A Place Called Yellowstone - Randall K. Wilson
October 29 at 6 PM The Byrd Center for Congressional History & Education Presented by Four Seasons Books Join us for the official book launch of A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Thrilled to see the Best Debut Short Stories 2025 with @cedarchromatic.bsky.social’s Split Lip story inside! Congratulations, brandon!

Thank you to @penamerica.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social & all the judges @dionneirving.bsky.social @lydiconklin.bsky.social @brendapeynado.bsky.social
Best Debut Stories 2025 standing up beside a cup of cappuccino A sideways, partial view of the first page of Brandon’s story, Faultline, beside the Editors’ note on the story from Amy Stuber and myself
October 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Thrilled to see THE BERRY PICKERS at the top of this list of Amazon Editors' Favorite Book Club Picks of the Past 25 Years!

Read Amanda Peters' "stunning debut about love, race, brutality, and the balm of forgiveness” (People Magazine) now in paperback!

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Amazon Editors Share Their Favorite Book Club Picks of the Past 25 Years
Over at Amazon, the book editors are celebrating 25 years of curating the latest and greatest titles for Amazon Books. To mark the occasion, th...
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October 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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HOLLOW SPACES by @victorsuth.bsky.social was named one of the best crime novels of the year (so far) by @nytimes.com!

Check out the full list & review here: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/b...
October 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Big news for #HiromiKawakami fans—THE THIRD LOVE is on sale today!

"A novel that’s remarkable on many levels." —Kirkus Reviews (starred 🌟 review)

"Mystical, immersive." —Foreword Reviews (starred 🌟 review)

Read now: softskull.com/books/the-th...
October 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Tonight! Susan Straight will be in conversation with fellow Counterpoint author Vanessa Hua about her new book SACRAMENT at @litquake.org ! 7pm! Details here: www.litquake.org/2025-schedule
October 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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"I was in the third grade when I first told Mr Takaoka about Naa-chan.

‘Hmm, sounds like you’re in love,’ was his response. I knew that I liked Naa-chan, but that was the first time I had thought of my feelings as ‘love’."

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The Third Love
Long ago. Saying those words puts me in a strange mood. Long ago – what does that mean? I’m not all that young, but I’m not that old either. Long ago. From where I stand now, that could point to a …
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October 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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"There are many ways to treat mental distress effectively, just look at history." A smart and hopeful piece by Susanne Paola Antonetta, author of THE DEVIL'S CASTLE, via @psychologytoday.com: bit.ly/4o9dit6. @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social
Improved Psychiatric Care, Through History
The moral treatment, Soteria, trialogue—many experts have found great ways to treat mental distress. Just look at history.
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October 21, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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"metaphors unmake the too-made, closing at the height of my life
as if to say to you, I'll be literal when I'm dead"

Read the full excerpt from Canisia Lubrin's forthcoming poem THE WORLD AFTER RAIN via @theatlantic.com.

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From The World After Rain, Part I
A poem
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October 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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"A surrealist depiction of a woman’s coming-of-age . . . reads as radically feminist to me, a way of living that no longer privileges the role of wife over that of friend, daughter, mother, intellectual compatriot, co-conspirator." — @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
Book Review: ‘The Third Love,’ by Hiromi Kawakami
In Hiromi Kawakami’s new novel, a young woman responds to her husband’s infidelities in creative ways.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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We asked our team to ask their pets about their reading interests...here's pt. 1! 🐕🐈📚💚

Whose vibe do you resonate with most?
October 17, 2025 at 3:58 AM