The New Yorker is "grateful" for Ben Yagoda's How to Not Write Bad

"In addition to enjoying the company of a fellow language nerd on the bus... I found much to be grateful for in the Yagoda." To read more, click here.

Ben Yagoda's How To Not Write Bad on Beth Kephart Books blog!

"[How to Not Write Bad] is a book that asks us to be mindful, to look back over own shoulders at the language trail we leave, to be our own best copy editors, to read, to look things up." To read more, click here.

Slate raves about Margaret Talbot's The Entertainer

“Margaret Talbot’s wry, wonderful new book . . . That Talbot is a writer gifted enough to evoke not just images but their attendant music through her words will come as no surprise to anyone who’s read her in The New Yorker or elsewhere. One of the things The Entertainer makes abundantly clear, though, is that she comes by her aesthetic sense naturally. . . . Talbot has woven a tale as romantic and vivid as any film could hope to be, while still seeing every bit of it plain. She is as clear-eyed about her father as she is about history—no easy feat. . . . [Lyle] never had even a starring role as dazzling as the one his youngest child, with history as her guide, has now written for him.” Read more here.

Roxane Gay raves about Manuel Gonzales’s “captivating” debut, The Miniature Wife, out in January, in The Rumpus

“wildly imaginative, at times surreal, and always captivating… Gonzales creates these bizarre scenarios that are so utterly believable you forget how impossible they actually are. There is an intelligent economy to his prose throughout the collection and I was thrilled by the originality of his ideas and how they were rendered.” To check out the full roundup, click here.

Minneapolis Star-Tribune calls Roberto Ampuero's The Neruda Case "an auspicious introduction"

"The book is often wryly funny, even in the face of tragedy and ineptitude....It is a meditation on identity and exile, love and regret. Let's hope that more books in Ampuero's Brulé series find an English-speaking audience." Read the full review here.

Fiction Writers Review on Rosie Dastgir's "deeply satisfying" novel, A Small Fortune

"Dastgir’s control of the plot does not waver when the stakes are highest....Dastgir follows the braided, conflicting streams of loyalty, tradition, and extremism with great compassion and gentle humor. Readers will cheer for characters who are almost more real than the actual people around them." Read the full review here.

The Daily Beast picks Roberto Ampuero's The Neruda Case as one of this week's Hot Reads

"A superb translation by Carolina de Robertis whips the first of Ampuero’s novels to be published in English into a pulsing, panting work." See the full review and list here.

Publishers Weekly selects Roberto Ampuero's The Neruda Case as one of the best new books for the week of June 11

"Ampuero's first novel published in English is filled with beautiful language and a rich, rewarding story." Read more about The Neruda Case as well as the full list of selections here.

Houston Press names Albert Manguel's All Men Are Liars one of its top 5 novels for summer reading

"[This] title on our list is being touted as a 'literary event'....All Men Are Liars is a fascinating puzzle."

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune is enthralled by Rosie Dastgir's A Small Fortune

"In her debut novel, Rosie Dastgir weaves a vivid and delighful saga about an extended family of Pakistani immigrants...[A Small Fortune] is funny, poignant, true and sad, and I was enthralled." Read more...