{"id":22332,"date":"2023-06-13T15:02:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/13\/14-new-books-to-read-in-june\/"},"modified":"2023-06-13T15:02:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T15:02:07","slug":"14-new-books-to-read-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/13\/14-new-books-to-read-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"14 New Books to Read in June"},"content":{"rendered":"


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This month, sink into a season of sunny lounging with transportive books that range from a rich visual exploration of American affluence to a novel about a queer cougar roaming Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

SUN SOAKED<\/h2>\n

The wet, hot American summer shines on, in a quartet of rich visual histories.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Edward Hopper & Cape Ann\u2019 by Elliot Bostwick Davis<\/h2>\n

Elliot Bostwick Davis takes a fresh look at a formative Hopper period; during a 1923 summer visit to Cape Ann, Massachusetts, where the deep blue harbors and idyllic homes put the painter on the path to singularity. (Rizzoli Electa)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018The Beginning\u2019 by Tina Barney<\/h2>\n

This Tina Barney monograph spans 1976 to 1980, highlighting her early work that chronicles American affluence: the tennis lessons, private pools, and wallpapered interiors of vivid seasonal tableaux. (Radius)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018Mystery Street\u2019 by Vasantha Yogananthan<\/h2>\n

French photographer Vasantha Yogananthan returns to documentary with a free-flowing depiction of childhood in 2022 New Orleans: wheelies, merry-go-rounds, a hula hoop about to set spin. (Chose Commune)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018The Pleasure of Seeing\u2019 by Joel Meyerowitz and Lorenzo Braca<\/h2>\n

\u201cThe main story always was the light,\u201d photographer Joel Meyerowitz tells the writer Lorenzo Braca. Their interviews accompany more than 100 images, including from the large-format series Meyerowitz shot on Cape Cod in ’76 and ’77, as pictured here. (Damiani) \u2014Madison Reid<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

SIX PACK<\/h2>\n

Feline ponderings, knotty love, and more fresh novels.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Reproduction\u2019 by Louisa Hall<\/h2>\n

A novelist considers birth and art\u2014suffering morning sickness, miscarrying, conceiving of a novel about Mary Shelley, abandoning it\u2014in this visceral, chimerical genre bender from Louisa Hall. (Ecco)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style\u2019 by Paul Rudnick<\/h2>\n

Beginning with Farrell seducing Nate at Yale, through movie stardom and the AIDS epidemic, Paul Rudnick chronicles half a century of complex love. (Atria)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018Maddalena and the Dark\u2019 by Julia Fine<\/h2>\n

Julia Fine\u2019s beguiling fairy tale dwells in 18th-century Venice, where teen girls\u2014driven, orphaned Luisa and charismatic, wealthy Maddalena\u2014collide at a rigorous music school. (Flatiron)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018Open Throat\u2019 by Henry Hoke<\/h2>\n

\u201cI probably wouldn\u2019t eat a child,\u201d muses Henry Hoke\u2019s mountain lion narrator. This lyrical story of loneliness and kinship in Los Angeles is, by turns, delightful and melancholy\u2014and inventive throughout. (MCD\/FSG)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018Holding Pattern\u2019 by Jenny Xie<\/h2>\n

Newly single and on leave from her PhD program, Kathleen Cheng moves into her mom\u2019s Oakland home and takes a job at a \u201ccuddle clinic\u201d in Jenny Xie\u2019s luminous, physical debut novel. (Riverhead)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018Everything\u2019s Fine\u2019 by Cecilia Rabess<\/h2>\n

Cecilia Rabess spins a smart, tangly romance at Goldman Sachs between Jess, feminist mag employee turned lone Black woman analyst, and white, conservative Greenwich-born Josh. (Simon & Schuster) \u2014Keziah Weir<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

GATHER \u2019ROUND<\/h2>\n

New works of nonfiction chronicle change and growth.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Built From the Fire\u2019 by Victor Luckerson<\/h2>\n

This evocative history of Tulsa’s Black Wall Street (site of the 1921 race massacre) and the family behind its newspaper, The Oklahoma Eagle,<\/em> captures ruin and endurance. (Random House)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018Pageboy\u2019 by Elliot Page<\/h2>\n

In an intimate memoir, the Juno<\/em> actor excavates his dovetailing experiences of becoming a public star while, privately, discovering himself as queer and trans. (Flatiron)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018George: A Magpie Memoir\u2019 by Frieda Hughes<\/h2>\n

An unmoored painter and poet\u2014daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes\u2014details finding \u201chome\u201d with a cheeky and beloved bird. (Avid Reader)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018Young and Restless\u2019 by Mattie Kahn<\/h2>\n

A galvanizing survey of the power of teen girls, from young suffragettes and civil rights advocates to Gen Z\u2019ers fighting for bodily autonomy in post-Roe America. (Viking) \u2014KW<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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