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Happening this Friday! Don't miss this virtual book talk with SACRAMENT author Susan Straight held by SoCal News Group!
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November 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Happening this Friday! Don't miss this virtual book talk with SACRAMENT author Susan Straight held by SoCal News Group!
RSVP here: buff.ly/ogxmvgD
RSVP here: buff.ly/ogxmvgD
"[FLAT EARTH] satirizes contemporary society and its discontents, indexing the internet’s alienating effects, the rightward political swing of many young men (and women), and the absurdities of the New York City art scene." — @theatlantic.com
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A Generational Portrait That Actually Says Something New
Anika Jade Levy’s debut novel captures what it feels like to try to become an artist right now.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"[FLAT EARTH] satirizes contemporary society and its discontents, indexing the internet’s alienating effects, the rightward political swing of many young men (and women), and the absurdities of the New York City art scene." — @theatlantic.com
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We're thrilled to share that HOLLOW SPACES has been chosen as an Apple Books best debut of 2025! 🥳 Congratulations, @victorsuth.bsky.social!
Check out the full list & download your copy of HOLLOW SPACES here: apple.co/2025bestdebuts
Check out the full list & download your copy of HOLLOW SPACES here: apple.co/2025bestdebuts
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
We're thrilled to share that HOLLOW SPACES has been chosen as an Apple Books best debut of 2025! 🥳 Congratulations, @victorsuth.bsky.social!
Check out the full list & download your copy of HOLLOW SPACES here: apple.co/2025bestdebuts
Check out the full list & download your copy of HOLLOW SPACES here: apple.co/2025bestdebuts
"By 2024, close to fifty percent of people over eighteen consumed at least one true crime story a week on one of three platforms: Documentary, podcast, or book."
STARKWEATHER author Harry N. Maclean dives into America's growing obsession with true crime via Crime Reads.
STARKWEATHER author Harry N. Maclean dives into America's growing obsession with true crime via Crime Reads.
Feeding the Media Monster: How America Became Obsessed with True Crime
Three books were written and two television documentaries produced on the Brian Kohberger case—in which four college students were murdered in their beds in Moscow Idaho in November 2022—before the…
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November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"By 2024, close to fifty percent of people over eighteen consumed at least one true crime story a week on one of three platforms: Documentary, podcast, or book."
STARKWEATHER author Harry N. Maclean dives into America's growing obsession with true crime via Crime Reads.
STARKWEATHER author Harry N. Maclean dives into America's growing obsession with true crime via Crime Reads.
Joan Silber's MERCY is a best book of the year according to TIME!
"MERCY is a captivating interconnected tale about guilt, regret, and the true meaning of forgiveness." —Shannon Carlin, TIME
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"MERCY is a captivating interconnected tale about guilt, regret, and the true meaning of forgiveness." —Shannon Carlin, TIME
time.com/collections/...
'Mercy' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Here's why it made the list
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November 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Joan Silber's MERCY is a best book of the year according to TIME!
"MERCY is a captivating interconnected tale about guilt, regret, and the true meaning of forgiveness." —Shannon Carlin, TIME
time.com/collections/...
"MERCY is a captivating interconnected tale about guilt, regret, and the true meaning of forgiveness." —Shannon Carlin, TIME
time.com/collections/...
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such a treat to talk lowriders, Art Laboe, and SoCal history w/ Susan Straight, author of SACRAMENT, for @altajournal.bsky.social 🏥
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Nurses and Lowriders
Susan Straight’s Sacrament depicts the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Southern California.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM
such a treat to talk lowriders, Art Laboe, and SoCal history w/ Susan Straight, author of SACRAMENT, for @altajournal.bsky.social 🏥
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
"MOTHERS is Lozano’s most propulsive novel, a thriller with a social consciousness that takes an unapologetically feminist look at the pleasures, pressures, and terrors of motherhood in a patriarchal society beholden to money and access." — @southwestreview.bsky.social
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Fear and Love Are like Two Fires | Brenda Lozano’s Mothers
By Cory Oldweiler
southwestreview.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
"MOTHERS is Lozano’s most propulsive novel, a thriller with a social consciousness that takes an unapologetically feminist look at the pleasures, pressures, and terrors of motherhood in a patriarchal society beholden to money and access." — @southwestreview.bsky.social
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Oakland! Don't miss Jordan Castro's book talk & signing for MUSCLE MAN at Clio's Books tomorrow night at 7pm!
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November 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Oakland! Don't miss Jordan Castro's book talk & signing for MUSCLE MAN at Clio's Books tomorrow night at 7pm!
RSVP here:
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Big news! THE LILAC PEOPLE by @todd-milo.bsky.social has been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards under the Historical Fiction category!
Head here to cast your vote in the opening round 📚 buff.ly/ob4Dmjd
Head here to cast your vote in the opening round 📚 buff.ly/ob4Dmjd
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Big news! THE LILAC PEOPLE by @todd-milo.bsky.social has been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards under the Historical Fiction category!
Head here to cast your vote in the opening round 📚 buff.ly/ob4Dmjd
Head here to cast your vote in the opening round 📚 buff.ly/ob4Dmjd
Happy publication day to Yuliana Ortiz Ruano's CARNAVAL FEVER! 🌴
✨ "Evocative and captivating." — @msmagazine.com
✨ "A celebration of Afro-Ecuadorian identity and female resilience." — @electricliterature.com
✨ "Evocative and captivating." — @msmagazine.com
✨ "A celebration of Afro-Ecuadorian identity and female resilience." — @electricliterature.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Happy publication day to Yuliana Ortiz Ruano's CARNAVAL FEVER! 🌴
✨ "Evocative and captivating." — @msmagazine.com
✨ "A celebration of Afro-Ecuadorian identity and female resilience." — @electricliterature.com
✨ "Evocative and captivating." — @msmagazine.com
✨ "A celebration of Afro-Ecuadorian identity and female resilience." — @electricliterature.com
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"The DSM is the beating heart of our psychiatric system, but it was based on the work of a eugenicist." Watch THE DEVIL'S CASTLE author @susantonetta.bsky.social on Cowboy State Daily Show discussing the Nazi underpinnings of mental health care in the U.S.: bit.ly/43funsP @catapultbooks.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"The DSM is the beating heart of our psychiatric system, but it was based on the work of a eugenicist." Watch THE DEVIL'S CASTLE author @susantonetta.bsky.social on Cowboy State Daily Show discussing the Nazi underpinnings of mental health care in the U.S.: bit.ly/43funsP @catapultbooks.bsky.social
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.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...
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
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.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...
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
Join Yuliana Ortiz Ruano for a celebration of the release of her new novel CARNAVAL FEVER at CARA NYC! Details and rsvp link here:
www.cara-nyc.org/program/even...
www.cara-nyc.org/program/even...
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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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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
"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).
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/05/l...
Out now: @ansonjtong.com's interview w/ Anika Jade Levy on her book "Flat Earth” (@catapultbooks.bsky.social).
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/05/l...
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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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“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...
southwestreview.com/fear-and-lov...
Fear and Love Are like Two Fires | Brenda Lozano’s Mothers
By Cory Oldweiler
southwestreview.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
💥 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...
southwestreview.com/fear-and-lov...
“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...
southwestreview.com/fear-and-lov...
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...
Preorder here! books.catapult.co/books/casano...
November 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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...
Preorder here! books.catapult.co/books/casano...
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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"A dazzling account of humanity’s mystical and perilous relationship with rocks, minerals, and metals. . . This is a wonder."— @publisherswkly.bsky.social (starred 🌟 review)
www.counterpointpress.com/books/under-...
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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)
www.counterpointpress.com/books/under-...
"A dazzling account of humanity’s mystical and perilous relationship with rocks, minerals, and metals. . . This is a wonder."— @publisherswkly.bsky.social (starred 🌟 review)
www.counterpointpress.com/books/under-...
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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"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
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
buff.ly/8sZmwCB
"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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“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
“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
@catapultbooks.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/whe...
@catapultbooks.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/whe...
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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
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)
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
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
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
Read the full review here: buff.ly/ZFarDIL
"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:
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
"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:
SACRAMENT is on sale today! 📚 Read the full review:
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
✨ "Monumentally moving reminder that heroism and humanity persist even in the midst of chaos."—@people.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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
✨ "Monumentally moving reminder that heroism and humanity persist even in the midst of chaos."—@people.com
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 ⭐)
♓ "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
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 ⭐)
♓ "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 ⭐)
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.
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
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.
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.