As a native Upstate New Yorker who resettled here several years ago, it’s always interesting to see the region portrayed in fiction. Hitting shelves next week are excellent novels from Chang-Rae Lee and Richard Russo that feature the dangers of the area's wilderness and the pull of an Upstate hometown, respectively. I love both of these books, and it was a treat to read PW’s profiles of the authors, linked below.
We also hear from debut novelist Claire Carusillo on her embellished tale of a family tragedy, and our reviews editors recommend more books publishing next week, including two unconventional memoirs.
Happy reading!
—David Varno
Starred Reviews Releasing Next WeekCheck out all the books to receive starred PW reviews that are hitting shelves next week. more
Richard Russo Was Born to RunThe author reflects on the decaying industrial hometown he left behind and how it shaped his writing for 40 years. more
Survival Skills: PW Talks with Virginia EubanksIn A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving, the investigative journalist shares what she learned as a caregiver for her partner and how her search for support helped her heal herself in the process. more
Chang-Rae Lee Goes Back to the BeginningThe veteran Korean American author finally writes about his immigrant experience in his new novel about childhood and family history. more
Claire Carusillo Goes OverboardTwo ancestors who survived famous maritime disasters inspired the author's debut novel, The Responsible Party. more
Josh Silver Takes on the Publishing ‘Machine’"I'm not just sending up the publishing industry—I'm sending up authors," the author says about his mischievous thriller Fruit Fly. more
Bimbo AgitpropBy Raquelle Jac (Fantagraphics)
Jac’s gloriously messy debut graphic memoir looks like a dive bar’s scribble-covered back wall that's been hit with a Bedazzler. She’s channeling Julie Doucet, Phoebe Gloeckner, and Emil Ferris, and giving them a Texas-born slap across the mouth. I love this stuff. We’re in this AI slop–saturated moment yearning for the feel of something real, and outsider art comics where every line shows the hand of its maker offer the fiercest antidote. —Meg Lemke, comics and graphic novels reviews editor
Slow Elephants of MilanBy Ángel Bonomini, trans. from the Spanish by Jordan Landsman (Transit)
The magnificent title entry in this collection from the late Argentine is ostensibly about a traveler witnessing two elephants walking down a foggy street, but it morphs into a mystical reflection on the nature and purpose of writing, one that contains some of the most beautiful and surprising prose I’ve read in some time. It’s a credit to translator Landsman, who makes Bonomini's demanding work feel at once fresh and timeless. —David Varno, literary fiction reviews editor
Three TensesBy Ed Park (Random House)
No matter the genre, Park is a perennially dazzling writer. I’m excited to pick up this slippery memoir (billed as a “a transmission from the nineties”), which comes from a 1998 flash drive that Park rediscovered decades later while cleaning out his family home. Some of its non-chronological contents, Park admits, are plainly fictional, but taken together, they form a portrait of a striving writer finding his voice. (Or, as our reviewer put it, a “beguiling trip through the consciousness of a budding wordsmith.")—Conner Reed, mystery and memoir reviews editor
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