Hot News This Week
October 31, 2024
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Consortium’s SS25 season covers titles publishing April – August 2025 and includes 7 new publishers: Alabaster Creative, Aunt Lute Books, Autumn House Press, Hagfish, Hemeria, LittlePuss Press, and Tilted Axis Press.
Look for new titles from heavy hitters like Rebecca Solnit, Maggie Nelson, Eoin Colfer, adrienne maree brown, Stewart Brand, Sheree Renée Thomas, Richard Siken, and Jihyun Kim . . .
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Haymarket Books; Wave Books; Little Island Books; AK Press
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Stripe Press; Third Man Books; Copper Canyon Press; Floris Books
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| . . . as well as Juan José Millás, Harry Turtledove, Ana Paula Maia, Nasser Rabah, Sulaiman Addonia, Michael Lentz, Vladimir Sorokin, Laura Borio, Maya Arad, Aurora Mattia, Claire Lebourg, John Finnemore, and Natalia García Freire. And many more! Happy browsing.
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| Page to Screen: Shiori Ito’s Black Box
Shiori Ito, journalist and author of Black Box: The Memoir That Sparked Japan’s #MeToo Movement, was profiled in the New York Times and Vanity Fair last week around the US release of her new documentary, Black Box Diaries. Ito is credited with foregrounding Japan’s #MeToo movement with the publication of her memoir, in which she went public with rape allegations against a high-profile TV personality and chronicled her subsequent pursuit of justice.
Critic Richard Brody writes in the New Yorker that Black Box Diaries, which Ito directed, “follows the book’s editing and publication—which was kept quiet for fear that the government might try to block its release—and its reception,” and he praises her “unsparingly candid cinematic sensibility.”
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| A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
According to PW, “Stefánsson’s magnificent opus glows with the magic of the aurora borealis. It takes place in Iceland’s Westfjords. . . . From there, Stefánsson unspools a vivid set of stories of people on the precipice of change, which cohere into an endlessly pleasurable narrative of self-discovery.”
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“This graphic novel about the Ketamine research pioneer John Lilly is as informative as it is visually stunning. Horse girls, listen up: unplug, lock in, and let the wave take you where it must . . .” — Charlie Jones, A Room of One’s Own (Madison, WI)
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“I challenge you to find a short story collection this fun, full of life, and originality. Tales of the weird and getting weirder (and older), of the Pacific Northwest and beyond, each packing a unique punch. Never has self-deprecation been such a blast!” — Seth Tucker, Carmichael’s Bookstore (Louisville, KY)
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★ “Manic, funny, and complex, this staggeringly inventive collection from Madden detonates any remaining assumptions readers might hold for the traditional comics medium. . . . This has the feel of an instant classic.” — Publishers Weekly
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“Hot off the press is this reissue of Ken Werner’s wild and feverish chronicle of San Francisco’s flamboyant late-1970s Halloween celebrations. Kooky, queer and cartoon characters go ‘boo’ in the night, parading costumes of furs and rhinestones and feathers.” — Dazed
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| | The Propagandist
by Cécile Desprairies, trans. Natasha Lehrer
New Vessel Press • October 2024 • 9781954404267
“The Propagandist is above all a love story: a blazing and uneasy romance with fascism. . . . [It] is an eerie reminder of how deeply entrenched fascism remains in Europe.” — Lux Magazine
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| | Gifted
by Suzuki Suzumi, trans. Allison Markin Powell
Transit Books • October 2024 • 9798893389005
“In this unsentimental novella, a young woman working as a bar hostess and sex worker in Tokyo reckons with several unresolved personal traumas.” — New Yorker
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“Through contrasts between the physical and ephemeral, and between soft and brutal, Where The Wind Calls Home is timeless in its cry for humanity in the face of ceaseless violence.” — Asian Review of Books
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| | New Digital Review Copies
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ABA Bestseller
Loving Corrections
by adrienne maree brown
AK Press • August 2024 • 9781849355544
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“Gilb’s rambunctious voice booms through the pages of these collections with volcanic force and unexpected twists and turns. Nothing he writes is uninteresting. . . . What distinguishes his work from the autofiction that has recently come into vogue is his artistry.” — Los Angeles Review of Books
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