Shelf Awareness for Readers, our weekly consumer-facing publication featuring adult and children's book reviews, author interviews, backlist recommendations, and fun news items, is being published today. Starred review highlights include Willy Vlautin's novel The Horse, a "testament to hope amid a lifetime of adversity"; Anamely Salgado Reyes's "charming" debut, My Mother Cursed My Name, which documents one family's "second chances to fix what what's been broken too long"; and popular podcaster Paul Cooper's Fall of Civilizations, which "attests to humanity's resilience" throughout its historical survey of devastation. Plus, editor Alex Brown compiles a "compellingly horrifying" collection of stories about teens facing down nightmares, demons, and strange manifestations of mortality in the spooky YA anthology The House Where Death Lives.
In The Writer's Life, Alex Temblador, author of Writing an Identity Not Your Own, shares advice and maps out a creative process for writers who want to improve their ability to write convincingly and sensitively about people from dissimilar backgrounds. And rediscover the late American poet Stanley Moss, "who for seven decades evoked a troubled world of sorrows and sensual pleasures ruled by a silent God seemingly indifferent to the fate of humanity."
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