"Ah, December! Crammed with holidays and short on sunlight, the month can be a lot to handle even in the best of times. So perhaps it's a relief that the publishing calendar all but peters out soon. This week still boasts an interesting melange of highlights, including nonfiction, international fiction and previously unpublished poetry, which you can find below. But there won't be many other big, notable releases after that,"
"So we're going to round up the rest coming here and then take a little break. Try not to panic without us. Just take deep breaths, hydrate, peruse the nearly 400(!) Books We Love and find a good nook where you can hide your book backlog from the prying eyes of visiting family. The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World, by Tilar J. Mazzeo"
"You could say Mazzeo wrote the book on narrative nonfiction and not just because she literally did write a guide to the genre last year. Her books have hopscotched from colonial America to fascist Italy, from luxuries like perfume to the horrors of the Holocaust, less concerned with any single era than the promise of a good story, wherever it's found."
December is packed with holidays and short on sunlight, making the month challenging even in the best of times. The publishing calendar largely peters out, though a final week offers nonfiction, international fiction, and previously unpublished poetry. One acclaimed novel arrives in the U.S. at month’s end. The Sea Captain's Wife recounts Mary Ann Patten’s takeover of a 19th-century voyage around the tip of South America after her husband became ill, confronting insubordination and brutal elements. Three Stories of Forgetting reflects on the brutal legacy of colonialism through the perspective of a writer born to Portuguese and Angolan parents.
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