Los Angeles Review Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Los Angeles Review

Beth Alvarado has a conversation with Karen Brennan about her novel “Television, a memoir” in a new #LARinterviews. Read their conversation here: https://t.co/Enc49lVZQG @FourWayBooks @bethfromtucson https://t.co/SLRDM6REWE

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“Elaine Sexton is a poet who draws and sketches vibrant meditative poems. Her poems are sleekly rendered and have the quality of studied watercolors, jottings en plein air.” Read Walter Holland’s review of “Drive” here: https://t.co/PVVC26fWwT #LARreviews @grid_books @Holfrey https://t.co/kkwb0Xa0aG

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Mircea Cărtărescu’s “brilliant, clear and disquieting prose….fills you quite immediately with a desire to explore a world that seems to be collapsing” Read @SaraheKornfeld’s full review of “Solenoid” (tr. Sean Cotter) here: https://t.co/crAUuYGybV @DeepVellum #LARreviews https://t.co/Bg47GMSW7L

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Margaret Juhae Lee (@margaretjuhae) interviews Ryan Lee Wong and reviews his novel, “Which Side Are You On,” on LAR today! Check it out here: https://t.co/M0buZ1Dc8C @CatapultStory #LARinterviews #LARreviews https://t.co/I9DBd03Jfb

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Maricela Guerrero’s ‘The Dream of Every Cell’ (tr. Robin Myers) “pushes beyond the fundamental expectations of a poetry book [balancing] the personal and emotional with the scientific and intellectual” Read @BrentAmeneyro’s review on LAR https://t.co/tNvPWL4U0l @CardboardHouseP https://t.co/E40j5zGwMf

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Chelsea Martin’s “Tell Me I’m An Artist” is a “humane, funny, and honest dissection of youth and creativity.” Read D. W. White’s full review on LAR: https://t.co/PxpFhzd1R4 @softskull #LARreviews https://t.co/mC6bPOzAw0

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“The poems ask us to consider tenderness as a precondition for a community-minded, just, and joyful world.” Read Issam Zineh’s review of “These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit” by Hayan Charara here: https://t.co/A5jPrE9dl9 #LARreviews @Milkweed_Books @izineh https://t.co/vcJJvn1AEc

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3 poems previously published on LAR are included in Yan An’s collection “A Naturalist’s Manor,” translated by @ChenDu72 & Xisheng Chen (pub. @ChaxPress, 2021). Check out the collection here: https://t.co/CQjEqHafbp Read their work on LAR: https://t.co/LlZZoFWQIn https://t.co/2RNBIRYBNC

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Deborah Williams’ review of Nnedi Okorafor’s “Akata Woman” (the third book in the The Nsibidi Script series) is up on LAR today. Read it here: https://t.co/MKvMZNBokP #LARreviews @VikingBooks @penguinrandom @Nnedi @mannahattamamma https://t.co/8KknCftzO1

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Read Roy White’s review of “The Year the City Emptied: After Baudelaire” by Daisy Fried on LAR: https://t.co/ZUTed13ndP #LARreviews @DaisyFried @surrealroy @floodeditions https://t.co/qG1P6PFWEG

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