Hot News This Week
June 6, 2024
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| North Korea: The People’s Paradise by photographer Tariq Zaidi (Kehrer Verlag) was featured in the New York Times Book Review on May 31. Zaidi “captures the omnipresence of the North Korean state,” according to the piece, as well as “small, revelatory glimpses of daily life” that offer “tokens of imperfection, humanity made palpable.”
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“The most beautiful collection of nonsense I’ve ever read. I’d like to think that, if Shel Silverstein were still with us today, he’d approve.” — Mary Garcia, River Bend Bookshop (West Hartford, CT)
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Mammoth
by Eva Baltasar, trans. Julia Sanches
And Other Stories • August 2024 • 9781916751002
“My first Eva Baltasar and certainly not my last! Mammoth is a deeply visceral tale following a young unnamed lesbian who yearns to belong.” — Grace Sullivan, Fountain Bookstore (Richmond, VA)
“A fiercely-written burning fuse of a book. . . . One of the most unshakeable reads of this year.” — Bryan Seitz, Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)
“Eva Baltasar lights the flame of personal feminism and we get to watch it burn. . . . Destined to be read in one perfect sitting.” — Kira Wizner, Merritt Bookstore (Millbrook, NY)
“A feminist folkloric nightmare. Eva Baltasar continues to stun.” — Torrin Nelson, Queen Anne Book Company (Seattle, WA)
“Baltasar’s best yet. . . . You don’t have to have read the previous books to get stuck into this one!” — Richard Dixon, Politics and Prose Bookstore (Washington, DC)
“Mammoth is going to be THE book of the late summer.” — Taylor Carlton, Brazos Bookstore (Houston, TX)
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| Headed to Children’s Institute?
Consortium publishers, reps, and staff are headed to New Orleans for Children’s Institute next week, and we’d love to see you there!
In the galley room and rep sessions, look for excellent children’s titles from Consortium publishers Albatros Media, Arsenal Pulp Press, Berbay Publishing, Cicada Books, Floris Books, Portage & Main/HighWater Press, NubeOcho, and Transit Children’s Editions.
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| Chicago Hikes and Sights
Two new books on Chicago are garnering nice media attention lately . . .
Publishing this month, Above and Across Chicago offers a new viewpoint on the city’s iconic lakefront, architecture, and surroundings. It’s a collection of “stunning images of the city from the sky,” according to the Chicago Sun-Times, and features “photographs taken from helicopters, atop skyscrapers and with drones.”
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| | Life After Kafka
by Magdaléna Platzová, trans. Alex Zucker
Bellevue Literary Press • August 2024 • 9781954276291
★ “An affecting book and always slightly to the side, as indeed were all of Kafka’s writings.” — Library Journal
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| | To & Fro
by Leah Hager Cohen
Bellevue Literary Press • May 2024 • 9781954276253
★ “Like Carol Shields’s Happenstance and Ali Smith’s How To Be Both, each story mirrors and illuminates the other. Whether readers go ‘to’ or ‘fro,’ the journey is worthwhile, and the novel will enchant.” — Library Journal
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| | Little Seed
by Wei Tchou
Deep Vellum / A Strange Object • May 2024 • 9781646053360
“A family story and a natural history of the fern run in parallel through this memoir, in which chapters alternate between botanical esoterica and descriptions of Tchou’s personal life: she grew up in Appalachian Tennessee as the daughter of Chinese immigrants.” — New Yorker
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“Essential reading in Jewish labor history, culture, and radicalism . . . this neglected history, available until now only to those who could read Yiddish, is now available to a much wider English readership.” — People’s World
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| New Digital Review Copies
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Reader, I
by Corey Van Landingham
Sarabande Books • April 2024 • 9781956046250
“A no-holds-barred romp of poetry full of formal innovation and wonder.” — Jericho Brown
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