Compulsive Reader Newsletter June

 

The June Compulsive Reader Newsletter is now on its way to inboxes everywhere - our readers are all over the world!  This month's newsletter features 3 book giveaways including our current front page giveaway for a copy of Toward the Corner of Mercy and Peace by Tracey Buchanan as well as the usual big literary news round up (so many awards!) and a dozen new reviews including the wonderful T by Alan Fyfe which has been shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier's award for an Emerging Writer. I also spoke to Alan this month at the podcast about T and also his upcoming poetry book.  You can find all that and more in our monthly newsletter, and if you can't want for it to arrive (it tends to trickle in slowly over a few days), you can view it in your browser.  If you aren't a subscriber, visit http://www.compulsivereader.com to subscribe for free. 

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Compulsive Reader Newsletter May

The latest issue of Compulsive Reader newsletter has now gone out and heading for inboxes around the world. This month's issue features 11 fresh reviews, 3 interviews (not counting our Compulsive Reader Talks interview with the wonderful Ashley Kalagian Blunt, two new giveaways of some very exciting pre-release books, and a full round-up of literary news (including a bit of news about my own upcoming festivals - both in one weekend - lucky me).  If you haven't received it yet, you can view it in your browser or to sign up for free (of course), just visit Compulsivereader.com and enter your email address in the upper right hand corner.  Couldn't be easier!  

Compulsive Reader Newsletter April is out!

This month's Compulsive Reader Newsletter has now gone out and is on its way to inboxes.  For April we've got our usual big news round-up as well as reviews of new books by the likes of Ruth Latta, Cristina Rivera Garza, Douglas Bauer, Ian McEwan, and Haji Jaber, along with two new book giveaways, a great new podcast episode featuring a genial conversation between Oisín Breen and Simon Whitby Brown, and lots more.  You can view it in your browser now or wait for it to arrive.  If you aren't already a subscriber, you can subscribe for free (and view all of our reviews) at: http://www.compulsivereader.com.  Happy reading! 

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Compulsive Reader Newsletter March

The March Compulsive Reader newsletter has now gone out. We've got more reviews than ever before this month (and 3 giveaways!) including Smog Mother by John Wall Barger, Oh My Rapture by Gemma White, Dug-Up Gun Museum by Matt Donovan, Pipette by Kim Chinquee and many more!  Plus our big literary news roundup for the previous month, a new interview at the podcast with Traumata's Meera Atkinson, and several interviews on site as well.  The newsletter is on its way now, but if you haven't gotten it, or can't wait, you can grab a copy in the archive.  If you aren't a subscriber you can sign up at compulsivereader.com

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by Herbert Frank 

Compulsive Reader Newsletter Feb

 

The February Compulsive Reader newsletter is now out, on its way to your inbox. This month's edition features reviews of new books by authors like Caroline Goodwin, Rachel Harper, Shilo Niziolek, Lucy Dougan,  Linda Adair, Jessica Bell, and many more. We also have an extensive literary news roundup for the month of January and two new giveaways.  If you want a preview or to read it now, you can View it in your browser.  To sign up and join our worldwide community of people who love books, just visit: http://www.compulsivereader.com

Compulsive Reader Newsletter - January

Happy new year readers!  The Compulsive Reader newsletter for January has now gone out. I have some news that I'm quite excited about - my new book Bobish is officially available. Bobish is a verse memoir of my great-grandmother Rebecca Lieberman, who migrated from the Shtetls of Eastern Europe to the US in 1907.  The book is getting some wonderful reviews including, most recently, this one from Geoff Nelder: "Such a wonderful prosody of verse conveying tragedy in a beautiful way. Magdalena is such an expert at the juxtaposition of sadness with hope, terror with exquisiteness." If you order a copy, please let me know and I'll send you a free, custom autographed bookplate posted anywhere in the world (if it's for a gift - just let me know who for and any special instructions) - limited offer until my bookplates run out! You can find out more about Bobish at https://magdalenaball.com/?page_id=932   

This month 's new reviews and interviews include the powerful anthology Voices of Freedom: Contemporary Writing from Ukraine edited by Kateryna Kazimirova and Daryna Anastasieva (and check out my new audio/video interview with Kateryna here: https://anchor.fm/compulsivereader/episodes/Kateryna-Kazimirova-on-Voices-of-Freedom-Contemporary-Writing-From-Ukraine-e1shs92), Ore Choir: The Lava on Iceland by Katy Didden, Anamnesis By Denise O’Hagan and lots more. 

You should receive yours soon but if you can't wait or you want to see what all the fuss is about, you can view a copy in the archive here.

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Compulsive Reader Newsletter December

The Compulsive Reader newsletter for December has now gone out.  This month features a bumper crop of new reviews and interviews including the likes of Lee Kofman, A Cottonmouth with a Laptop: A review of Stay Gone Days by Steve Yarbrough, Sam Morley, Nandita Dinesh, Joyce Chopra, Adam Sass, Tina Cane, Melanie McCabe, Julia Brewer Daily, PS Cottier and Sandra Renew and many more.  We also have two new book giveaways including right now, Janes Jam by Jane Enright.  

Our extensive news roundup of all of November's literary news includes awards like the Scotiabank Giller, the Prix Goncourt, the Patrick White and the always popular Bookseller Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year.  You should receive yours soon but if you can't wait or you want to see what all the fuss is about, you can view a copy in the archive here:  https://compulsivereader.com/sendpress/email/?sid=MA&eid=MjQ1NjQ

To sign up or read all of our reviews, and check out my new audio/video interview with the amazing Hazel Smith, visit: http://www.compulsivereader.com

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