Mateo García Elizondo

Apr 17, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Maxim Loskutoff |Mateo García Elizondo |Siegfried Kracauer

Margo Laurie. Calleia, $2.99 e-book (174p) ASIN B0BJRRFQQ4Laurie’s compassionate debut revisits the 1927 execution of Italian immigrant and suspected anarchist Ferdinando “Fred” Nicola Sacco. The narrative opens with his wife, Rosa, recounting the history of their relationship in a letter to her seven-year-old daughter, Ines, written shortly after his death. Laurie then flashes back to 1911, when Rosa first meets Fred at a dance in Milford, Mass.

Apr 11, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Maxim Loskutoff |Mateo García Elizondo |Siegfried Kracauer

Alex Espinoza. Simon & Schuster, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-6680-3278-7Espinoza (Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime) returns to fiction with the arresting story of an elderly wrestler’s last days. Ernesto Vega is visited while in hospice care by his son, Freddy; his gay grandson, Julian; the ghost of his wife, Elena; and a manifestation of his lucha libre persona, El Rey Coyote.

Apr 10, 2024 | booksfromscotland.com | Mateo García Elizondo |Robin Myers

Mateo García Elizondo Mateo García Elizondo (Mexico City, 1987) is a screenwriter and author. His work has appeared in magazines such as Nexos , Revista Casa de las Américas, Quimera, Origami, and Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos . He has written scripts for film and graphic narrative, including the screenplay for the feature film Desierto (2015), which won the FIPRESCI prize at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Apr 5, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Patrick Nathan |Maxim Loskutoff |Mateo García Elizondo |Siegfried Kracauer

Patrick Nathan. Counterpoint, $26 (224p) ISBN 978-1-64009-624-0The titillating latest from Nathan (Some Hell) portrays the life of a gay Hungarian Jew in Hollywood. In 1956, George Curtis is drawn to fellow screenwriter Jack Turner, the sight of whose body stings George “like the opulence of the homes in Beverly Hills.” After George and Jack visit actor Madeline Morrison in Malibu, Jack tempts George into acting on his attraction, sparking a romance that offers both men the promise of happiness.

Apr 3, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Andrew O'Hagan |Maxim Loskutoff |Mateo García Elizondo |Siegfried Kracauer

Andrew O’Hagan. Norton, $32.50 (608p) ISBN 978-1-324-07487-8O’Hagan (Mayflies) centers this wide-ranging novel of ideas on an art critic and professor from a working-class Scottish background. In 2021 London, Campbell Flynn, 52, has achieved cultural prominence but continues to fall short of financial security. Unbeknownst to his aristocratic wife, he’s stopped paying his taxes and owes money to an unsavory friend.