14 new books you can’t wait to get your hands on.
Well, we have been in this mess for over a year now. For those of you who are being very good at social distancing but who miss the physical touch of a friend, might I recommend (gently) stroking the covers of these new books?! Perhaps it will achieve a similar effect.
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Jo Ann Beard, Festival Days
(Little, Brown)
“Few writers are so wise and self-effacing and emotionally honest all in one breath … Over the course of nine beguiling pieces — which seamlessly meld observation and imagination — she effects an intimacy that makes us want to sit on the rug and listen.”
–The Washington Post
Claire Thomas, The Performance
(Riverhead)
“This richly rendered and perceptive meditation on motherhood, memory, and the challenges of living through frightful times will hold readers spellbound.”
–Publishers Weekly
Nona Fernández, tr. Natasha Wimmer, The Twilight Zone
(Graywolf Press)
“This disturbing story of a repentant man makes for a gripping psychological game of cat and mouse.”
–Publishers Weekly
Menachem Kaiser, Plunder
(Houghton Mifflin)
“Menachem Kaiser’s Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure tells a twisting and reverberant and consistently enthralling story.”
–The New York Times
Gianrico Carofiglio, Three O’Clock in the Morning
(Harpervia)
“A compelling, compact story … Gianrico Carofiglio’s Three O’Clock in the Morning is profound in its simple delivery.”
–New York Journal of Books
Vivian Gornick, Taking a Long Look
(Verso)
“[Taking a Long Look] is illuminating and a welcome addition to the astute critic’s oeuvre.”
–Publishers Weekly
Michael Lowenthal, Sex with Strangers
(University of Wisconsin Press)
“The stories are studded with memorable flashes of brilliant writing and stunning details.”
–The New York Times Book Review
Jamal Greene, How Rights Went Wrong
(Houghton Mifflin)
“Greene delves deeply into the legal, cultural, and political matters behind rights conflicts, and laces his account with feisty legal opinions and colorful character sketches. This incisive account persuades.”
–Publishers Weekly
Glenn Frankel, Shooting Midnight Cowboy
(FSG)
“Frankel provides us with the context we need to fully appreciate the film as a vivid snapshot of a specific time and place in American history.”
–Booklist
Harlan Coben, Win
(Grand Central)
“Coben, as is his wont, raises moral dilemmas readers will enjoy chewing on and pulse-pounding action scenes will keep the pages at least semi-frantically turning.”
–BookPage
Kim Addonizio, Now We’re Getting Somewhere
(W. W. Norton)
“The cunning and taut lines in the irreverently funny latest from Addonizio (Mortal Trash) reveal a poet teetering on the edge of existential ennui.”
–Publishers Weekly
Roya Hakakian, A Beginner’s Guide to America
(Knopf)
“She offers counsel to readers, not commandments, and although her book could be seen as a love letter to America, it is one that’s been written by an exacting lover who isn’t blind to this country’s flaws.”
–The Wall Street Journal
Robert Alter, Nabokov and the Real World
(Princeton University Press)
“This essay collection assesses the stakes and real-world relevance of Nabokov’s writing, from his lectures and short stories to his major novels. It’s a great read if you’re a Nabokov fan, or if you’ve ever wondered, ‘Why did this guy write Lolita?”
–Lit Hub
Amy Solomon, Notes from the Bathroom Line
(Harper Design)
“Themes run the gamut of standard stand-up fodder: dating undatable men, insecurities, becoming one’s mother, awkward social encounters, and obsessing over things then obsessing over being obsessed.”
–Publishers Weekly
