Lauren Cerand Public Relations
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- “One of our core values as a store is that prioritizing the social and creative exchange of ideas, curiosities, and experiences over the most immediate commercial considerations will still—somehow—get us what we need to be sustainable as a business and as a good place to work.“
- We’re excited to be sponsoring @oaklandreviewofbooks.org right out of the gate. In this short piece I try to explain why. They’re formally launching now, so do check them out. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/why-were-spo...
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- Reposted by Lauren Cerand Public RelationsWashington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.
- “The piece I love may repel you, and someone else may treasure something that leaves us both cold, and that’s part of the beauty of the exercise: simply reaffirming our disparate reactions, asserting the reasons my taste differs from yours, activates parts of our brain that otherwise lie dormant…“
- The Washington Post has only a single arts critic left - everyone else got fired today, along with all three arts editors. (There are still a couple of excellent arts reporters.) I was so upset I dusted off my blog to have my say: annemidgette.com/blog/f/a-req...
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- Reposted by Lauren Cerand Public RelationsFor those looking for freelance work in the wake of WaPo layoffs: I'm an editor at large overseeing Ideas & Culture at Bloomberg, including our Books coverage. Find me at skillingswo2@bloomberg.net
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- Happy publication day to Hostages: A Counter-History of Colonial Plunder by #TainaTervonen, translated by Sara Hanaburgh for @schaffnerpress.bsky.social! Tervonen continues her work of excavating silent histories, after The Bone Whisperers (2024), which garnered her the Jan Michalski Prize…
- The Bone Whisperers was published in 2024 by @schaffnerpress.bsky.social and I do have review and bookseller copies available upon request. Read an excerpt @crimereads.bsky.social crimereads.com/a-window-int...
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- Planning to be in Baltimore #AWP26? Join us for the opening of Time’s Breath author Deborah Brown English’s exhibition of art from her illustrated novel at Creative Alliance, featuring fellow debut novelists (and LCPR authors) @ldeforest.bsky.social, @margarethutton.bsky.social! Free & open to all.
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- Fantastic to see Hostages: A Counter-History of Colonial Plunder, out in February from @schaffnerpress.bsky.social, here! schaffnerpress.com/books/hostag...
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- If you’re following this topic, Taina Tervonen’s new book Hostages: A Counter-History of Colonial Plunder ( @schaffnerpress.bsky.social, Feb) will be germane to your interests. DM me, or email LaurenCerandPR@gmail.com for an ARC: schaffnerpress.com/books/hostag...
- Delighted to add Kirmen Uribe to my LCPR list for future projects. A New York–based transnational writer, Uribe works across Basque, Spanish, and English, reflecting the multilingual intelligence of the city itself.
- Reposted by Lauren Cerand Public RelationsYesterday’s session on lit mag submissions grew out of a conversation with students last term about literary magazines and community, informed by the last year of cuts to the programs supporting humanities and literature. open.substack.com/pub/querent/...
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- Congratulations to @schaffnerpress.bsky.social for making the move to @ipgbook.bsky.social! Ask me about GENERATOR, HOSTAGES, and BRAHMS COMES TO DINNER.
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- Tonight’s launch for The Relegation Reader, hosted by the Coffee House at the Salmagundi Club is sold out; the list is closed. Tickets are available for Thursday at the Urbane Arts Club, with Will Mountain Cox and Relegation founder & publisher Dallas Hudgens: www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
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- Reposted by Lauren Cerand Public RelationsWhen the AI slop summer reading list dropped last year I knew I had to write about making book lists. Thanks to @thebaffler.com for letting me go long with bewildered nostalgia & regret on 20 years of Internet book culture & how we made the slop book list inevitable. thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...
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- Gorgeous ARCs of The Daughters (Mysterious Press, 3/17), the new thriller by Joanna Margaret (The Bequest) going out this week— DM me to request yours! I’ll send out with “Welcome New Witch” pins while they last. Meet Joanna in Brooklyn at Books Are Magic on 3/19, and in LA at Chevalier’s on 3/25!
- Generator (@schaffnerpress.bsky.social), the new debut novel by Korean-Swiss author Rinny Gremaud, translated from the French by Holly James, is available now. DM me to request. I recommend it for anyone intrigued by autofiction and/or environmental themes, and fans of #AnnieErnaux and #HanKang.
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