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Folklore and horror mingle in this deliciously grim debut. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/p... @catapultbooks.bsky.social @alexzucker.bsky.social #booksky
Playing Wolf: A Novel | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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THE LILAC PEOPLE by @todd-milo.bsky.social has made it to the final round of the Goodreads Choice Awards in the Debut Fiction category!

The voting period ends on 11/30—head here to cast yours now: www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Karen Bender (@karenebender.bsky.social), author of THE WORDS OF DR. L, recently joined disability advocate @nicoleforlove.bsky.social to chat about her journey as a writer, inspiration behind the stories in her recent collection, and more!

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Season 3, Episode 3 with Author Karen Bender
For this episode of The No No Show on Thursday, which airs November 20th at 5:30 p.m. (PST), I sit down with my special guest, Author Karen Bender. Karen is known for her powerful storytelling and…
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November 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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So excited to see HOLLOW SPACES by @victorsuth.bsky.social listed as a 2025 Most Notable Book by @nytimes.com!

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November 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Madeleine Arenivar, translator of Yuliana Ortiz Ruano’s CARNAVAL FEVER, on the art of translation and allowing a novel's original voice to shine, via Lit Hub.

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Madeleine Arenivar on the Rhythm of Translation, Preserving Poetic Language, and Letting a Novel’s Voice Shine
The translator Madeleine Arenivar, who lives in Quito, Ecuador, was a student in perhaps the most enjoyable class I’ve ever taught: an online translation course whose participants were, without exc…
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November 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Happy publication day to DISINHERITANCE! 📚

This posthumous story collection by Booker Prize–winning author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala balances a host of cultural influences to showcase Jhabvala’s signature voice and her buoyant, satiric fiction.

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November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Our holiday gift guide is here! Peruse our top picks for every kind of reader on your list 📚

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November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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an impressive collection of essays and ruminations

yall better be preordering SAY NEPHEW by steven pfau
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say nephew by steven pfau
November 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Excited to see FRESH, GREEN LIFE by Sebastian Castillo listed as one of the best books of 2025 according to New York Public Library! 📚

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November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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RESTING BITCH FACE by @taylorbyas.bsky.social is one of the best poetry collections of 2025 according to @electricliterature.com!

"Anger threads through joy and poems continually return to the charged moment when honesty becomes a superpower."
Electric Lit's Best Poetry Collections of 2025 - Electric Literature
Books by Taylor Byas, Tiana Clark, and Maria Zoccola are among the year’s most celebrated poetry collections
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November 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"In this moody Czech gothic, a couple on the outs gets in big trouble in the Czech wilderness. Translated impeccably by Zucker, should fulfill all your folk horror needs."

Zuzana Říhová, Playing Wolf, trans. Alex Zucker
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TY, @mollsotov.bsky.social @crimereads.bsky.social!
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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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
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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
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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."

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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
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"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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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
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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
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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
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"[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
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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
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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"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.
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
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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 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
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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
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"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
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November 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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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!

RSVP here:
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November 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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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
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM