Henry Bean

Jun 13, 2024 | decine21.com | Henry Bean

Cuando se descubrió el holocausto perpetrado por Hitler y sus secuaces, la humanidad se dijo: “Nunca más”. Pero ya se sabe que “el hombre es el único animal que tropieza dos veces en la misma piedra”. Si encima ese animal neonazi es de raza judía, estamos sin duda “rizando el rizo”. Es lo que sucede en The Believer, inquietante y poderosa película que sigue la pista a Danny, inteligentísimo jovenzuelo hebreo de ideas nazis que vive en el Nueva York de nuestros días.

May 30, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Adrienne Brodeur |Maud Ventura |Henry Bean

Lydia Kiesling. Crooked Media, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-1-63893-056-3Kiesling (The Golden State) takes on the global petroleum industry in this politically astute novel. Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth “Bunny” Glenn is the daughter of an American diplomat in newly independent Azerbaijan in 1998, with a front-row seat to the geopolitical scrambling underway for the nation’s vast oil reserves.

May 26, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Jamel Brinkley |Adrienne Brodeur |Maud Ventura |Henry Bean

Jamel Brinkley. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-60703-6In his dazzling sophomore collection, Brinkley (A Lucky Man) digs into the promises and dangers of intimacy and the costs of speaking up or staying silent. In the title story, a Black woman named Bernice, who is suffering from an unknown illness, advises her brother “when it... comes to those white doctors...

May 2, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Henry Bean |Hannah Rothschild |Scott Nadelson |Nishanth Injam

Screenwriter Bean’s marvelous novel, first published in 1982 as False Match, is about a nenoquich—the ancient Mexican word for a lifelong loser, born under a bad sign. It’s 1970, and wannabe writer Harold Raab, 26, is on the skids. He begs Penthouse magazine to give him an assignment, hangs out with his Berkeley, Calif., crew of fellow bohemians, and fills a notebook with their aimless adventures. His life acquires meaning when he meets the married Charlotte Cobin.

Apr 14, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Adrienne Brodeur |Maud Ventura |Henry Bean

Scott Nadelson. Columbus State Univ, $17 trade paper (272p) ISBN 979-8-218-04333-9Nadelson’s luminous collection (after One of Us) portrays the inner lives of misfits and their moments of folly.