Hot News This Week
July 17, 2025
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| Two fiction titles from Consortium publishers made appearances on mid-year best-of lists:
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| Four Kids Books for Disability Pride Month
The Children’s Book Council recommended four titles from Consortium publishers on a list of titles that encourage conversations around neurodiversity and disabilities:
- Little Big Sister by Eoin Colfer, illus. Celia Ivey (Little Island Books)
- A Girl Called Echo Omnibus by Katherena Vermette, illus. Scott B. Henderson (Portage & Main / HighWater Press)
- Three Feathers by Richard Van Camp, illus. K. Mateus (Portage & Main / HighWater Press)
- We Need Everyone by Michael Redhead Champagne, illus. Tiff Bartel (Portage & Main / HighWater Press)
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| Remembering Fanny Howe
We’re saddened by the loss of poet Fanny Howe, who passed away this month at the age of 84. “Her life and work were conjoined in a long, lucid series of questions,” writes Nightboat co-founder Kazim Ali, who also notes that “there would be no Nightboat Books without Fanny Howe.” Two books by Howe were among the first titles that Nightboat published, including Radical Love, a collection of five of her novels.
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| Read This Next: a Lucid Investigation into Factory Farming
Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable by Will Potter (City Lights Publishers) is “reportage of [Potter’s] epic, emotionally and physically draining 10-year investigation into American factory farms,” writes author Lydia Millet in a review for the Washington Post. “The book is a lucid indictment of a food system whose normalization of cruelty on a staggering scale is rivaled only by the tightly controlled, government-sanctioned regime of non-transparency that enables it.”
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| Award News: Outstanding Fantasy and Science Fiction
Also up for special World Fantasy Awards are Small Beer’s Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link, as well as Sheree Renée Thomas, author of the forthcoming Mojorhythm (Third Man Press).
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| | Giant
by Judith McQuoid
Little Island Books • June 2025 • 9781915071637
“I loved this fictionalized story of a young C.S. Lewis and his childhood friend. . . . A beautiful story of friendship, class and coming-of-age.” — Jessica Sporaa, Dog-Eared Books (Ames, IA)
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“I’ve never related to a ghost more in my life. What a gem of a book, what a perfect and silly character!” — Shelby Baseler, The Novel Neighbor (Webster Groves, MO)
“This is just the sweetest and silliest story. The illustrations and storytelling are so nostalgic. I can see this book being to the next generation what The Snowman was to mine.” — Sydney Fancher, Charter Books (Newport, RI)
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“In life and on the page, the Palestinian poet Nasser Rabah searches through rubble. . . . Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece [is] a new translation of his work that includes writings from the onset of the current war and humanitarian crisis in Gaza.” — New Yorker
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| | Hard Margins
by Edward J. Delaney
Turtle Point Press • July 2025 • 9781885586575
“A beautiful and necessary novel that makes the reader examine many of the lies underpinning our national myths—and shows how even people of conscience can turn idealism into something ugly.” — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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“An extremely risky book in that it has little interest in the meaning of the dream’s content. Instead, it’s the telling that matters. ” — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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“Midnight Is Not in Everyone’s Reach is fiction of the highest order. . . . In this elegy for a family, or for the family that could have been, Antunes masterfully evokes the obsessive pull of family life, the peculiar intensity of its joys and miseries.” — Washington Post
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| | New Digital Review Copies
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On the Soft White Underbelly show, author Jamie Mustard spoke about growing up in Scientology, an experiences which partially informed his fictional graphic novel Hybred (Street Noise Books), illustrated by Francesca Filomena.
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ABA, PNBA, MPIBA, SCIBA, MIBA, SIBA, and GLIBA Bestseller
I Who Have Never Known Men
by Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz
Transit Books • May 2022 • 9781945492600
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