New and Selected Stories

Name: New and Selected Stories
Brand: Blackstone Publishing
SKU: 9798212181839
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Cristina Rivera Garza

(Author)

Kirsten Potter

(Read by)

Frankie Corzo

(Read by)

et al.

Various Narrators

(Read by)

Jane Oppenheimer

(Read by)

Natasha Soudek

(Read by)

Thom Rivera

(Read by)

Stacey Glemboski

(Read by)

Timothy Andrés Pabon

(Read by)

Lisa Dillman

(Translator)

Alex Ross

(Translator)

Sarah Booker

(Translator)

Francisca González Arias

(Translator)

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A story collection drawn from across her career brings into English for the first time the extraordinary stylistic and thematic range of the Mexican writer and MacArthur genius Cristina Rivera Garza.

One of Mexico's greatest living writers, wrote Jonathan Lethem in 2018, we are just barely beginning to catch up to what she has to offer. In the years since, Rivera Garza's work has received widespread recognition: she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant for fiction that interrogates culturally constructed notions of language, memory, and gender from a transnational perspective, and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Yet we have still only started to discover the full range of a writer who is at once an incisive voice on migration, borders, and violence against women, as well as a high stylist in the manner of Lispector or Duras.

New and Selected Stories now brings together in English translation stories from across Rivera Garza's career, drawing from three collections spanning over thirty years and including new writing not yet published in Spanish. It is a unique and remarkable body of work, and a window into the ever-evolving stylistic and thematic development of one of the boldest, most original, and affecting writers in the world today.

Product Details

Publisher	Blackstone Publishing
Publish Date	October 11, 2022
Language	English
Type	CD-Audio
EAN/UPC	9798212181839
Dimensions	5.7 X 5.8 X 1.1 inches \| 0.5 pounds

BISAC Categories: Literary Fiction , Literary Fiction , Literary Fiction

Product Details

Publisher	Blackstone Publishing
Publish Date	October 11, 2022
Language	English
Type	CD-Audio
EAN/UPC	9798212181839
Dimensions	5.7 X 5.8 X 1.1 inches \| 0.5 pounds

BISAC Categories: Literary Fiction , Literary Fiction , Literary Fiction

About the Author

Cristina Rivera Garza is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Taiga Syndrome. Originally written in Spanish, her books have been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, and more. Born in Mexico in 1964, she has lived in the United States since 1989, and is currently a distinguished professor in Hispanic studies and the director of creative writing at the University of Houston.

Sarah Booker is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a focus on contemporary Latin American narrative and translation studies.

Lisa Dillman is a translator from Spanish and Catalan and a lecturer at Emory University.

If you've watched TV at all in the past ten years, you've definitely seen her face and heard her voice countless times in any number of wildly successful national, global, and Super Bowl commercials, as well as playing the first blond Vulcan in Star Trek history. The daughter of two English professors, Natasha Soudek was raised in the South, speaks native German, lived in Berlin and Vienna, and finally settled in the Lower East Side of New York City as a teenager. After honing her stage presence by studying acting and playing hundreds of sold-out live music shows (singing and playing bass), she moved to LA to record with Channel/DreamWorks and act on TV. Favored on KCRW, Chris Douridas compared her voice and songwriting to the Beatles' Let it Be in meaning and soulfulness . . . qualities that translate especially well into her career as an audiobook narrator. Her voice is as distinct and memorable as the range of characters she's played on-screen, which gives listeners an immediate familiarity to connect to, along with a warmth and intimacy that spans and uplifts any genre.

Timothy Andres Pabon is an actor and Spanish and English voice-over artist/audiobook narrator from Washington DC. He has over 140 books on Audible.com, one of which was nominated for a 2015 Society of Voice Arts and Sciences Award and another which was awarded an AudioFile Earphones award as part of an ensemble audiobook cast in 2014. His voice-over clients include Gabrielle Giffords, Hillary Clinton, The Sierra Club, NBC, and the 10-episode series Chasing Che on National Geographic. He has been seen on House of Cards seasons 3 and 4 as Mark, a White house press correspondent. He has also been a costar on HBO's acclaimed series The Wire opposite country music legend Steve Earl. As a stage actor he has worked Off-Broadway at the June Havoc Theatre, and his regional credits include Center Stage, the Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage, The Hippodrome, Olney Theatre, Rep Stage, and GALA Hispanic Theatre. Tim is a proud father of two children, and a member of AFTRA/SAG and Actor's Equity.

Stacey Glemboski is a talented audiobook narrator, tennis player, and copywriter. Previously an English teacher, she currently works out of her home studio.

Kirsten Potter is an award-winning audiobook narrator who has performed on stage, film, and television. Having graduated from Boston University's School for the Arts, she has received recognition from the American Academy of Achievement and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.

Frankie Corzo is an experienced narrator and actress who spent her childhood performing in theater productions, commercials, films, and voiceovers. Born to Cuban immigrant parents, she narrates and acts in both Spanish and English. Her work has been added to numerous best of lists, including Audible's for 2017 and 2018. Born and raised in New Jersey, she currently splits her time between New York and Los Angeles.

Jane Oppenheimer is an experienced narrator, voiceover artist, and actress with a bachelor's degree in theater from Carnegie Mellon University. She has narrated numerous audiobooks and has performed on stage in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Her voiceover work can be heard on commercials as well as corporate campaigns and short documentaries.

Read by Thom Rivera, Dawn Harvey, Carol Monda, Hillary Huber, Bernadette Dunne, and Kyla Garcia

Reviews

Offers English-language readers access to more than thirty years of intriguing writing by one of Mexico's greatest contemporary authors.

-- "Shelf Awareness"

The stories in this collection are as varied as Rivera Garza's remarkable career, and this book is an excellent introduction to a unique writer who deserves to be recognized not just in Mexico, but all over the world. A fine collection, chilling and frequently bizarre in all the best ways.

-- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"

This hypnotic, riveting collection...takes on love, migration, and violence...These unsettling yet deeply approachable stories ought to earn Rivera Garza the wider attention she deserves.

-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"

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