Hot News This Week
April 17, 2025
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| Four titles from Consortium publishers are finalists for 2025 PEN America Literary Awards, which recognize dynamic, diverse, and thought-provoking examples of literary excellence. Winners will be named on May 8.
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection
PEN Translation Prize
- Verdigris by Michele Mari, translated from Italian by Brian Robert Moore (And Other Stories)
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| Jennie C. Jones at the Met
On Monday, artist Jennie C. Jones made the front page of the Arts section in the New York Times, profiled in a story about her “suite of elegant, angular sculptural works” for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Roof Garden commission.
Jones, whose work is the subject of Jennie C. Jones, has “claimed her space in Minimalism while defying its accepted narratives,” notes the piece. Her installation at the Met, now on view, features sculptural forms that “draw equally on the abstractionist canon and on Black artistic breakthroughs that this canon has typically ignored or excluded.”
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“[Sostre’s] relentless commitment to justice, his creativity in creating space in oppressive systems, and his willingness to grow and change as a person and thinking make him an inspiration to anyone fighting for a better world.” — Josh Cook, Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA)
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“In No Straight Road Takes You There, Solnit does what she does best: challenges, educates, comforts, and inspires the reader to action. This collection of essays speaks directly to our current moment and invites us to dream and act on a future beyond the doom and gloom we see in the news daily.” — Caleb Masters, Bookmarks (Winston-Salem, NC)
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| | Audition
by Pip Adam
Coffee House Press • June 2025 • 9781566897310
★ “Brilliantly weird. Weirdly brilliant. . . . Virginia Woolf’s The Waves meeting a 21st century version of Philip K. Dick.” — Kirkus Reviews
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| | The Essential C.D. Wright
by C.D. Wright, ed. Forrest Gander and Michael Wiegers
Copper Canyon Press • May 2025 • 9781556597190
★ “The brilliant and multitalented Wright died unexpectedly in 2016, leaving behind a legacy of astonishing breadth. This comprehensive and riveting volume . . . serves both the ardent fan and the newcomer to her work.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “Audacious . . . a classically styled novel that sounds a very contemporary alarm.” — Kirkus Reviews
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Kathleen Jennings’s Kindling (Small Beer Press) is shortlisted for the 2024 Aurealis Awards, Australia’s premier speculative fiction honors, nominated in the category of best collection.
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In their April issue, Kirkus Reviews featured Solo (Little Island Books), Gráinne O’Brien’s “beautifully written, deeply relatable” YA novel, in a piece for National Poetry Month about verse novels for teens.
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ABA, SCIBA, GLIBA, NAIBA, MPIBA, NEIBA, and SIBA Bestseller
I Who Have Never Known Men
by Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz
Transit Books • May 2022 • 9781945492600
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