Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Stay This Day and Night with Me by Belén Gopegui, translated from Spanish by Mark Schafer (San Francisco: City Lights Books, March 21, 2023; 193 pp.; ISBN 9780872868939; $16.95 paper). First published in Spanish as Quédate este…
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Identity, Mental Health, and Autofiction
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Hunger Heart by Karen Fastrup, translated from Danish by Marina Allemano (Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Book*hug Press, November 22, 2022, first English ed., Literature in Translation series; 272 pp.; trade paper, ISBN 9781771667722; $21.00 US, $25.00 CAD).…

Cultural and Personal Memory
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor The Age of Goodbyes, by Li Zi Shu, translated from Chinese by YZ Chin (New York: Feminist Press at CUNY, November 8, 2022; 379 pp.; ISBN 9781952177699; $17.95 paper; also available as ebook). First published as…

Tales from the Pyrenees
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà, translated from the original Catalan version by Mara Faye Lethem (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, March 15, 2022; 216 pp.; $16.00 paperback; ISBN 9781644450802). Published as Canto jo i la…

On Writing
A Translation By Abdón Ubidia Translated from Spanish by Nathan D. Horowitz Excerpted from a longer essay, “50 sombras de un escritor.” The writer should obey only his own poetic animal. Find yours. Search even the stupidest places in your heart. If something in your writing sounds wrong to you, it will sound even worse…

A Psychological Journey of Self-Discovery
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor The Vanished Collection by Pauline Baer de Perignon, translated by Natasha Lehrer (New York: New Vessel Press, January 11, 2022; 256 pp.; $17.95 paperback, $12.95 ebook; ISBN 9781939931986). “Every canvas is a journey all its own.”…

A Modern Parable Explores Prejudice
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Among the Hedges by Sara Mesa, translated by Megan McDowell (Rochester, NY: Open Letter, May 18, 2021; 140 pages; $14.95; ISBN: 978-1-948830-39-3 paperback; also available as ebook, $9.95). Appeared originally in Spanish as Cara de pan…

Finding Identity in the Netherlands
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Djinn by Tofik Dibi, translated (& Introduction) by Nicolaas P. Barr (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, January 2021; 143 pages; $19.95; ISBNs: 9781438481302 paperback, 9781438481319 ebook). SUNY series in Queer Politics and Culture.…

Stories from the Sierra Zapotec
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Red Ants by Pergentino José, translated by Thomas Bunstead (Dallas: Deep Vellum Publishing, November 3, 2020; 152 pages; $14.95; ISBNs: 9781646050192 paperback, 9781646050185 ebook). First published in 2012 as Hormigas rojas by Almadía Ediciones in Oaxaca…

Defying Genres
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Include Me Out by María Sonia Cristoff, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver (Oakland, California: Transit Books, February 4, 2020. 140 pages; $16.95; paperback ISBN 978-1-945492-30-3; ebook ISBN 978-1-945492-33-4). Originally published as Inclúyanme afuera by Editorial…

BRIGHT by Duanwad Pimwana
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Bright by Duanwad Pimwana, translated by Mui Poopoksakul (San Francisco: Two Lines Press, April 9, 2019). 184 pages; $16.95, paperback ISBN 9781931883801; $8.99, e-book ISBN 9781931883825. Melbourne, Australia: Brow Books, Forthcoming June 2019. First published in…

Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor A HISTORY OF SILENCE: FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE PRESENT DAY by Alain Corbin, translated by Jean Birrell (Cambridge, UK & Medford, MA, USA: Polity Press, June 2018). 160 pp, paperback $19.95. Also available as hardcover and e-book. French edition: Paris: Éditions…