Still January? Check. Still pandemic? Check. Need a new book? Check, check, check. Visit a local indie bookstore — they’re probably having a post-holiday slump too — and pick up a new paperback; maybe one of these brand-new ones. “The Swallowed Man” by Edward Carey (Penguin, $17). Author and visual artist Carey (“Little”) in this novel takes on the tale of Pinocchio, but from a decidedly different angle: An Italian woodcutter, searching for the wooden puppet who came to life and ran away, is swallowed by a giant fish; the book takes place within that belly’s “watery purgatory.” “Fans of [Carey…