opinionated commentary on literary matters – from the complete review Swiss philosopher Peter Bieri — better-known under the name under which he published his novels, Pascal Mercier — has passed away; see, for example, the SWI swissinfo.ch . His best-known novel is under review at the — . I missed this last week, but they've the winner of this year's VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and it is , by Tess Gunty, which has already racked up quite a few awards, including the 2022 National Book Award for FictionFiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places in ways that are imaginary or inconsistent with history, fact, or plausibility. In a narrow sense, "fiction" refers to written narratives in prose – often referring specifically to novels, novellas, and short stories.[4][5] More broadly, however, fiction encompasses imaginary narratives expressed in any medium, including not just writings but also live theatrical performances, films, television programs, radio dramas, comics, role-playing games, and video games..... And it is just out in paperback. I haven't seen this yet, but see the publicity pages from and , or get your copy at , or . At Tobias Carroll has a with Rodrigo Rey Rosa, whose is due out shortly from Biblioasis; see also their I have a copy of this one and should be getting to it soon; three of his titles are already under review at the ; e.g. Severina . Personal review The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Lee Child's nineteenth Jack Reacher novel, the 2014 Personal . The Millions' ‘Most Anticipated' At The Millions they now have their list of the Most Anticipated: The Great 2023B Book Preview for the second half of the year, with 171 titles on offer. US-focused, of course — and while there are certainly many titles of interest, note that there are a lot more to look out for. Among the biggest missing titles: Dalkey Archive Press' re-issue of Marguerite Young's Miss MacIntosh, My Darling ; see their publicity page . (They do list the Dalkey re-issue of David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress .) Also; two from Other Press (which I recently got ARCs of): Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's prix Goncourt-winning The Most Secret Memory of Men ( publicity page ) and Giuliano da Empoli's already much-discussed The Wizard of the Kremlin ( publicity page ). And what about Michael Brodsky's Invidicum , coming from Tough Poets Press ( publicity page ) ? Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis They held the Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur — ‘days of German […]
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