And the Bride Closed the
Door
Ronit Matalon, trans. Jessica Cohen | New Vessel Press | 9781939931757 |
October 2019
“One
could tout the graces of Matalon’s novella on a number of fronts. Its layered
brand of humor—part slapstick, part wit—seeps in and out of darkness with
bite, yielding a compact tragicomedy on love and loss. While its characters may
flirt with the cartoonish, they never quit the realm of plausibility: their
foibles are utterly, achingly human. Its prose, translated by Man Booker
Prize winner Jessica Cohen, is a deftly wielded knife.”—Asymptote Journal
Thukpa
for All
Praba Ram and Sheela Preuitt, illus. Shilpa Ranade | Karadi Tales Picturebooks
| 9788193388983 | October 2019
“Thukpa for All is a beautiful story about community, compassion, and
culture. . . . The illustrations throughout it, as well as on the cover,
are detailed and alluring.”—Manhattan Book Review
Plummet
Sherwin Tija | Conundrum Press | 9781772620405 | October 2019
“Tija has concocted a perfect metaphorical fable for just living life and
accepting that it’s a mysterious and absurd journey that we are thrust into.”—Comics
Beat
Tosh:
Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World
Tosh Berman | City Lights Publishers | 9780872867604
| February 2019
“[Tosh
Berman] adds a curious dual memoir to the genre’s history. . . . Were Tosh’s story adapted for the stage, the
ideal dramatist for the job would be the late Sam Shepard, the bard of late
twentieth-century family dysfunction.”—Art in America
Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River
Jung Young Moon, trans. Yewon Jung | Deep Vellum Publishing | 9781941920855 |
December 2019
“In his trademark stream-of-consciousness style, Moon
admirably grapples with himself and the peculiarities and paradoxes of
twenty-first-century Texas, while questioning what has meaning and what
doesn’t, who gets to decide, and the nature of the novel as a literary form.”—Lone Star
Review
“Moon
unravels the world of Texas and Dallas, recasting the familiar as alien and
allowing readers to re-encounter this city and region through the eyes of a
narrator who is disoriented by its otherworldliness.”—D Magazine
Collecting
for a New World: Treasures of the Early Americas
John Hessler | GILES | 9781911282396 |
November 2019
“The pivotal moment in the 16th century, when Europeans and indigenous
Americans first came into contact, is brought to life with John Hessler’s vivid
descriptions of more than 60 rare items.”—Art Magazine
Crushing
the Red Flowers
Jennifer Voigt Kaplan | Ig Publishing | 9781632460943
| December 2019
“The
ambiguities which Kaplan explores in Crushing the Red Flowers refuse
resolution. It is a testament to her skill as an author that her work
acknowledges this truth and embraces the paradox of her characters’
dilemmas.”—Jewish Book Council
The
Complete Gary Lutz
Gary Lutz | Tyrant Books | 9781733535915 | December 2019
“Gary
Lutz is perhaps the best American writer of very short fictions.”—Epiphany
“We must be grateful to Tyrant
Books for putting all of Gary Lutz’s stories together in this volume—with the
hope that The Complete
Gary Lutz will be not so complete soon.”—Full Stop
The Buddhist Swastika and Hitler’s Cross: Rescuing a
Symbol of Peace from the Forces of Hate
T.K. Nakagaki | Stone Bridge Press | 9781611720457 | September
2018
“This book is recommended for all libraries,
especially those that have strong Holocaust collections and collections on
interfaith relations.”—Association of Jewish
Libraries