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Thrilled to see @amandapetersauthor.bsky.social's THE BERRY PICKERS featured on this table of book club picks at B&N Park Slope!
November 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Thrilled to see @amandapetersauthor.bsky.social's THE BERRY PICKERS featured on this table of book club picks at B&N Park Slope!
Wendell Berry's MARCE CATLETT is a story "so real and well told that it enters the soul and spurs our own storytelling, which itself is the core of human community" (The American Spectator).
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Wendell Berry Shows Us How To Love in Loss – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Our greatest living author returns to Port William, Kentucky, a community whose love has weathered defeat and transcends time.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Wendell Berry's MARCE CATLETT is a story "so real and well told that it enters the soul and spurs our own storytelling, which itself is the core of human community" (The American Spectator).
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"It’s my job to carry you from one sentence to the next, which is why the book is so desperate to be liked. I am conscious of the fact that your phone is a foot from you when you’re reading."
Read the full interview with FLAT EARTH author Anika Jade Levy: buff.ly/EtLIsxv
Read the full interview with FLAT EARTH author Anika Jade Levy: buff.ly/EtLIsxv
The Art of Being 26
"Flat Earth" author Anika Jade Levy on vulnerability, scarcity, and friendship.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"It’s my job to carry you from one sentence to the next, which is why the book is so desperate to be liked. I am conscious of the fact that your phone is a foot from you when you’re reading."
Read the full interview with FLAT EARTH author Anika Jade Levy: buff.ly/EtLIsxv
Read the full interview with FLAT EARTH author Anika Jade Levy: buff.ly/EtLIsxv
"The sponsored content seemed more real than the photos of my old acquaintances, who looked like advertisements for themselves, for generational wealth, for the American psychiatric industry, for sex positivity."
Read the full excerpt from Anika Jade Levy's FLAT EARTH:
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Read the full excerpt from Anika Jade Levy's FLAT EARTH:
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Flat Earth
Our age difference, the Law Professor told me, was Socratic: seventeen years. An ideal gap for ideological instruction. He had medium-sized children—concealed at twentieth-century-style boar…
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November 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"The sponsored content seemed more real than the photos of my old acquaintances, who looked like advertisements for themselves, for generational wealth, for the American psychiatric industry, for sex positivity."
Read the full excerpt from Anika Jade Levy's FLAT EARTH:
lithub.com/flat-earth/
Read the full excerpt from Anika Jade Levy's FLAT EARTH:
lithub.com/flat-earth/
Happy pub day to Martha Cooley's MY LITTLE DONKEY! 🫏 A collection of searching, curious, and surprising essays catalyzed by Martha's move in her sixties to a small Italian village.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Happy pub day to Martha Cooley's MY LITTLE DONKEY! 🫏 A collection of searching, curious, and surprising essays catalyzed by Martha's move in her sixties to a small Italian village.
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Learn more: buff.ly/QYzpKzG
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
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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!
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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).
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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! 🫶
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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
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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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“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...
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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)