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Nov 27, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Stanley Tucci |Alia Trabucco Zerán |Sophie Hughes |Weike Wang
Tattered Cover is a Denver institution. Founded in 1971, it’s now one of the U.S.’s largest independent-bookstore businesses. Kathy Baum, who oversees the store’s orders for new books, curating what she thinks people might like to (or should) read, spoke with us not long ago about some of her recent and upcoming favorites. Getting her hands on early copies of books is “a treat,” she admits, and “my pile is usually very high.” Her remarks have been edited and condensed.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
shelf-awareness.com | Alia Trabucco Zerán |Sophie Hughes |Jeff Vander Meer |Danielle Trussoni
Today's issue has several outstanding works of engaging nonfiction. In Gather Me, a memoir that's warm, reflective, and full of literary joy, Glory Edim, creator of the online book club Well-Read Black Girl, leads readers on the journey that shaped her as a writer and a person.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
tspr.org | Scott Simon |Alia Trabucco Zerán
NPR's Scott Simon talks about efforts to protect the current election from outside interference with Jen Easterly, director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
tspr.org | Joanna Kakissis |Alia Trabucco Zerán
A Ukrainian chef has just published an English-language cookbook on his country's cuisine. He says it's an important step to keeping international attention on Ukraine's fight against Russia.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
tspr.org | John Ruwitch |Alia Trabucco Zerán
John Ruwitch is a correspondent with NPR's international desk. He covers Chinese affairs. Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
mariskreizman.substack.com | Alia Trabucco Zerán |Sophie Hughes |Maris Kreizman
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, trans by Natasha WimmerIt’s 1519 and the conquistador Hernán Cortés and his smelly gang of aspiring colonizers have entered Tenochtitlan (current day Mexico City), an Aztec kingdom full of an exotic delicacy called chocolate, as well as ample hallucinogens and painted warriors. What follows is hilarious and disturbing in equal measures.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Alia Trabucco Zerán |Sophie Hughes
CLEAN, by Alia Trabucco Zerán. Translated by Sophie Hughes. In Alia Trabucco Zerán's second novel, "Clean," a 7-year-old child has died. Estela García, the maid for a wealthy family in Santiago, Chile, sits alone in her cell, pleading her case to the authorities who might be listening: "I'm going to tell you a story, and when I get to the end, when I stop talking, you're going to let me out of here."The mystery surrounding the death of the girl is a powerful source of suspense.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
bookshop.org | Alia Trabucco Zerán |Sophie Hughes
Praise for Clean "Clean is the opposite of what readers will feel when they finish this. . .uncomfortable, fascinating, lovely, and affecting novel. . .Hughes' splendid translation assures it will resonate in many more places where people live with the alienation and superficiality of late-stage capitalism."--Booklist, STARRED review "Propulsive . . .
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
chicklit.nl | Alia Trabucco Zerán
De Chileense Alia Trabucco Zerán mag bij ons misschien een nobele onbekende zijn, maar in de internationale literaire gemeenschap gaat ze niet onopgemerkt voorbij. Haar roman The Remainder stond in 2019 op de shortlist van de International Booker Prize, wat toch al wat wil zeggen. Schoon is haar derde roman, maar de eerste die in het Nedrelands is vertaald. Schoon is een bijzondere roman die het midden houdt tussen een thriller en een poëtisch literaire beschouwing over leven en dood.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Alia Trabucco Zerán
Empezaré por una confesión: me costó escribir este texto. Podría atribuir esta dificultad a mi amistad con Paula, lo que a su vez tendría una premisa probablemente equivocada: que un vínculo de este tipo, una amistad larga aunque interrumpida por sucesivas ausencias, por viajes propios y ajenos, por los vaivenes de vidas que se han bifurcado y que en el último tiempo han convergido, nubla la escritura o, peor aún, la reflexión. ¿Pero es realmente así?
