Articles tagged "Don’t Call Us Dead"
2017 Triangle Awards Finalists
We’re waving our rainbow flag in support of our 2017 Publishing Triangle Awards finalists, honoring the best LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as the year’s best trans and gender-variant literature:
Finalists for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
ABANDON ME by Melissa Febos
Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
SOME SAY: Poems by Maureen N. McLane
Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
DON’T CALL US DEAD by Danez Smith
HALF-LIGHT: Collected Poems, 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart
Finalists for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature
DON’T CALL US DEAD by Danez Smith
Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado
Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado readmoreremove
Library Journal’s Best Books of 2017
Library Journal’s Best Books of 2017 lists include 12 Macmillan titles:
Top Ten Books of 2017 (full list)
THE NINTH HOUR by Alice McDermott
Mystery (full list)
GLASS HOUSES by Louise Penny
SF/Fantasy (full list)
DOWN AMONG THE STICKS AND BONES by Seanan McGuire
AUTONOMOUS by Annalee Newitz
Thrillers (full list)
THE LOST ORDER by Steve Berry
THE SABOTEUR by Andrew Gross readmoreremove
2017 National Book Award Finalists
We’ve got the write stuff: FOUR Macmillan titles are shortlisted for the 2017 National Book Awards!
Fiction
HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado
Poetry
HALF-LIGHT: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart
WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier
DON’T CALL US DEAD: Poems by Danez Smith
Winners will be announced on November 15. #FingersCrossed!
NBA Poetry Longlist
Next up from the National Book Awards is the poetry longlist:
Frank Bidart, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
Layli Long Soldier, Whereas
Danez Smith, Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems
Mai Der Vang, Afterland
Sneak Peek: September 2017 Indie Next List
The September 2017 Indie Next list includes 3 Macmillan titles!
[updated 8/23]
The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas
3 starred reviews!
“This breathtaking…novel will do for motherhood what Gone Girl did for marriage. ‘A story requires two things: a great story to tell and the bravery to tell it,’ Joan observes. Wolas’ debut expertly checks off both boxes.”—Booklist, starred review
“Like John Irving’s The World According to Garp, this is a look at the life of a writer that will entertain many nonwriters. Like Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies, it’s a sharp-eyed portrait of the artist as spouse and householder. From the start, one wonders how Wolas is possibly going to pay off the idea that her heroine is such a genius. Verdict: few could do better.”–Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“Debut author Wolas’s sure hand applies layer upon layer of precisely meshed poetic and cinematic scenes to realize a life of such quiet majesty and original consideration of family interplay that she does the impossible. Readers not only will mourn coming to the end, they will feel compelled to start over to watch the miracle of this novel unfold again. Breathtaking.”—Library Journal, starred review
The Hidden Light of Northern Fires by Daren Wang
“Action packed, taut with tension, and filled with memorable characters, this powerful debut displays the currents of history as they run through one small town, carrying away lives in their wake.”–Booklist
“A vivid, compelling portrayal of the heartbreaking price exacted for freedom.”–Kirkus Reviews
Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
“Smith follows the Lambda Literary Award–winning debut [insert] boy with a further display of transcendent talent for close-to-the bone articulation, celebrating the lives of “we citizens/ of an unpopular heaven// & low-attended crucifixions.” Poised at the bruising intersection of black and queer identity, poems such as “dear white america” (“I tried to love you, but you spent my brother’s funeral making plans for brunch”) lose no impact moving from spoken-word stage to page. Smith brilliantly metaphorizes the experience of receiving an HIV diagnosis in Lorca-esque fashion, as becoming “a book of antonyms” and leavens the gravity with moments of mordant wit. An erasure of Diana Ross lyrics leaves the message “if there’s a cure for this/ i want it,” capturing camp’s confrontation with the intolerable. Though visually and formally varied, the collection’s most striking pyrotechnics are rhetorical: “& he will say tonight, I want to take you/ how the police do, unarmed & sudden.” Describing a “down-low house party,” a speaker observes: “we say yo meaning let my body// be a falcon’s talon & your body be the soft innards of goats.” Luminous and piercing, this collection reassembles shattering realities into a shimmering and sharp mosaic.”–Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Remarkable… The content as well as the writing is transcendent… VERDICT Highly recommended.”–Library Journal, starred review