Hot News This Week
October 6, 2022
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Three Consortium titles have been named finalists for the 2022 National Book Awards! A huge congratulations to Coffee House Press, Transit Books, and the many talented authors and translators nominated. Mark your calendar and cross your fingers: the winners will be announced on November 16.
Translated Literature
Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda, translated by Sarah Booker (Coffee House Press, 9781566896214)
Poetry
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| | Pacifique
by Sarah L. Taggart
Coach House Books • October 2022 • 9781552454473
“Tia must come to terms with the mystery human who came into her life, swallowed her whole, and spit her right back out into the daunting and ugly world, all without a trace. Is love real? Are we sane at all? And the biggest mystery of them all: Who is Pacifique?”—Grace Sullivan, Fountain Bookstore (Richmond, VA)
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A November Indie Next Pick for Biblioasis
This week the ABA announced that Graeme Macrae Burnet’s Case Study is an Indie Next pick for November. “Such a great, satisfying, smart read,” says Toby Cox of Three Lives & Co. (New York, NY) who nominated the novel. “This has it all: a psychological drama between therapist and client; swinging ’60s London; a writer fully enjoying the storytelling; sharply observed moments of family. One of my favorites of 2022.”
Case Study
by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Biblioasis • November 2022 • 9781771965200
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Holiday Gift Guide Picks from Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly’s October 3 issue features their 2022 Holiday Gift Guide and includes several Consortium titles. Stock up on these PW editors’ recs for the holiday season!
Children’s and YA: Telling Stories Wrong by Gianni Rodari, illustrated by Beatrice Alemagna (Enchanted Lion Books, 9781592703609)
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Oct. 11.
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| | Canción
by Eduardo Halfon, trans. Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn
Bellevue Literary Press • September 2022 • 9781954276079
★ “A gorgeously rendered meditation on borderless identity, historical traumas and ongoing repercussions.”—Shelf Awareness
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| | Dislocations
by Sylvia Molloy, trans. Jennifer Croft
Charco Press • November 2022 • 9781913867355
★ “Argentine novelist and critic Molloy examines the nature and significance of memory in her gleaming English-language fiction debut. . . . A graceful study of memory, identity, and relationships, this is one to cherish.”—Publishers Weekly
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★ “Award-winning film director Chopra’s memoir pulls no punches. . . . A strong, engaging read that offers insight into Chopra’s life and career and the all-too-familiar struggles of women professionals in misogynistic workspaces.”—Library Journal
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| | The Bird Coat
by Inger Marie Kjølstadmyr, illus. Øyvind Torseter, trans. Kari Dickson
Enchanted Lion Books • October 2022 • 9781592703661
★ “The illustrations are refreshingly different from most picture books today. . . . Offbeat but excellent—sure to stay with readers and provoke conversation.”—Kirkus Reviews
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| | The Truth about Max
by Alice Provensen and Martin Provensen
Enchanted Lion Books • March 2023 • 9781592703753
★ “This appealing package will propel new generations to discover the Provensens, whose visual chronicles so adeptly revealed their reverence for the land and animals they stewarded. Utterly delightful.”—Kirkus Reviews
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| | Blood Snow
by dg nanouk okpik
Wave Books • October 2022 • 9781950268634
★ “okpik connects the personal to the planetary in a direct, unsettling way, and readers will not soon forget her imagined Alaskan habitat, so cold that like ‘aluminum foil to a filled molar / it twinges metallic.’”—Booklist
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“Dralyuk embraces rhyme with a rare and admirable enthusiasm for sound and syllable, for musical variety and plays on words. . . . [An] air of upbeat sorrow permeates My Hollywood. It’s an émigré mood, defined by the conviction that things could always be worse.”—New York Review of Books
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New Digital Review Copies
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Canción
by Eduardo Halfon, trans. Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn
Bellevue Literary Press • September 2022 • 9781954276079
“The narrative of Canción unfolds in an elusive middle ground where heritage becomes porous.”—David Ulin, Los Angeles Times
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Literary Hub’s “Interview with an Indie Press” series recently featured our friends at Coach House Books.
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The Night Walk by Marie Dorléans (Floris Books) was included in a recent Booklist feature on backlist titles with nighttime explorations.
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