Hot News This Week
August 15, 2024
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| “My family and I are doing exactly what we hope our readers do after they turn the last page of each of Blue Dot’s books: get inspired and then act on that learning.”
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“Rae Garringer’s powerful and touching new book proves unequivocally that queer narratives are not the sole possession of New York, San Francisco, DC, or Atlanta. . . . Part memoir, part photography, and part community oral history, Country Queers is not to be missed.” — Rebecca Speas, Quail Ridge Books (Raleigh, NC)
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“Pam Houston has written a deeply personal, taboo-busting collection of micro-essays illustrating the hypocrisies and shell game of abortion. Houston argues that abortion is a basic health right, motherhood is a choice, and we need to fight like hell for the freedom to make these decisions.” — Julie Buckles, Honest Dog Books (Bayfield, WI)
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| Celebrating the Life and Art of Singer Mia Zapata
“I think that we’d still be a band today, had we all survived.” The Gits drummer Steve Moriarty appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition today to discuss Mia Zapata & The Gits: A Story of Art, Rock, and Revolution, his new book remembering singer Mia Zapata and recounting their time in the Seattle punk scene and early 90s grunge era. Zapata was murdered in 1993, and Mia Zapata & The Gits seeks to recenter her story around the art she created, not her death. “One of the reasons that I wrote this book was to honor her legacy,” Moriarty tells host A Martínez, “but also to point out what a unique and creative and innovative musician she was.” Listen to the interview here.
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| Newly Crowned Award Winners and Finalists
We’re thrilled to report good award tidings for several Consortium publishers. Congrats, all!
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★ “Fascinating insight into the work [Currie] has pioneered as a psychotherapist to other Indigenous survivors of the Scoop and of residential schools. . . . A stirring and hopeful vision of spiritual reconciliation with the ghosts of the past.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “A poet of brilliance and bewilderment facing weaponized financial instruments, Borzutzky doesn’t shy away from confronting the ugly, unsavory trenches of late capitalist life.” — Booklist
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★ “Powerful and evocative to its last beating line . . . The Stuff of Hollywood moves like a reel of film, 24 frames per second. Is it a nine o’clock news story? Is it the latest action blockbuster, full of Hollywood’s ubiquitous violence?” — Booklist
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| | Melvill
by Rodrigo Fresán, trans. Will Vanderhyden
Open Letter • October 2024 • 9781960385161
★ “This is a masterpiece. . . . Argentine writer Fresán focuses his visionary latest on the inner life of author Herman Melville and the exploits of his tormented father, Allan.” — Publishers Weekly
★ “Brilliant . . . an elegant, meditative story about storytelling—for lives are, Fresán writes, ‘really, books of stories.’” — Kirkus Reviews
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| | New Digital Review Copies
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“Chan invites us into the ordinariness of growing up in an immigrant family in the city and weaves it into a playful, wistful dream.” — Andrew Preston, CoffeeTree Books (Morehead, KY)
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ABA Bestseller
Loving Corrections
by adrienne maree brown
AK Press • August 2024 • 9781849355544
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