New Books Received for November 2024
Small, Independent, and University Press, and Author-published Books
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November 2024 Featured Titles
the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless, Matthew Cooperman, Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press
A durational project written over twenty years, Cooperman’s collection feels uncannily pointed at NOW. See sponsored blog post here.
Table Talk & Second Thoughts, Michael Martone, Booth
This memoir in prose poems comes packaged with literary magazine Booth issue 19. See blog post here.
The Voice of the Wooden Dragon, Christie Waldman, NFB Publishing
The debut author-illustrator team novel by Christie (author) and Lane (illustrator) Waldman that follow Princess Meredith, a dragon, in the land of Deweydaire as she leads fights against injustice. See sponsor blog post here.
More Books Received
Poetry
In Full Velvet, Jenny Johnson, Sarabande Books
In Which, Denise Duhamel, Rattle
Motherlands, Weijia Pan, Milkweed Editions
Moving the Bones, Rick Barot, Milkweed Editions
Time Remaining, James P. Lenfestey, Milkweed Editions
A Window that Can Neither Open Nor Close, Lauren Russell, Milkweed Editions
Fiction
Be Bay, Do Crime, ed. Molly Llewellyn & Kristel Buckley, Dzanc Books
Before the Mango Ripens, Afabwaje Kurian, Dzanc Books
Blindspot in America, Elom K. Akoto, Red Hen Press
God-Disease, An Chang Joon, Sarabande Books
First Law of Holes, Meg Pokrass, Dzanc Books
Louie on the Rocks, Meredith O’Brien, SparkPress
Metamorphosis: Climate Fiction for a Better Future, ed. by Grist, Milkweed Editions
One Hundred Pearls, Barry Michael Cole, Livingston Press
The River, The Town, Farah Ali, Dzanc Books
Ruined a Little When We Are Born, Tara Isabel Zambrano, Dzanc Books
Villages, Robert Inman, Livingston Press
Nonfiction
Dear Edna Sloane, Amy Shearn, Red Hen Press
Going the Distance: The Teacing Profession in a Post-COVID World, Lora Bartlett et al., Harvard Education Press
Navigating School Board Politics: A Framework for Advancing Equity, Carrie R. Sampson, Harvard Education Press
The Science of Last Things, Ellen Wayland-Smith, Milkweed Editions
Stories of the Street, David Lazar, University of Nebraska Press
Yoke & Feather, Jessie Van Eerden, Dzanc Books
See October 2024 book titles here.
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