Hot News This Week
March 28, 2024
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| “The walls and ceilings are painted black. I’m staring at a skull, a Ouija board and there’s a white dog named Ghosty running around.” The Times Union recently visited the “corporate goth” office of CLASH Books to profile our friends Christoph Paul and Leza Cantoral.
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| | Indian Winter
by Kazim Ali
Coach House Books • May 2024 • 9781552454657
“A rare jewel of a book. . . . I have never read anything quite like Indian Winter. A hauntingly poetic and deeply reflective interior and exterior journey through the landscape of the soul—and in particular, the beautifully queer soul of the narrator.” — James Davidson, Queen Anne Book Company (Seattle, WA)
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“Gorgeously written, thoroughly researched, heartbreaking and humorous and utterly sublime.” — Laurel McCaull, Green Apple Books (San Francisco, CA)
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| Cold Nights of Childhood Wins an NBCC Award
At last week’s National Book Critics Circle awards ceremony, the NBCC’s 2023 Greg Barrios Book in Translation Prize was awarded to Maureen Freely’s translation of Tezer Özlü’s Cold Nights of Childhood, which was first published in 1980, six years before Özlü’s death at 43. As Freely said in her acceptance speech, the novel “has inspired two generations of Turkish women to step out of their gendered straitjackets and live by their own lights.”
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| Angela Hume’s Deep Care on MSNBC
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| Celebrating the 2024 Lammy Finalists
Eleven titles from Consortium publishers are finalists for the 2024 Lambda Literary Awards, nominated for outstanding LGBTQ+ literature across numerous categories. Congrats, all! Stay tuned for the winners announcement on June 11.
- Trash by Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, translated by J.D. Pluecker (Deep Vellum Publishing) for Transgender Fiction
- Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel (Feminist Press) for Transgender Fiction
- On Community by Casey Plett (Biblioasis) for Transgender Nonfiction
- Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure by Mx. Sly (Arsenal Pulp Press) for Transgender Nonfiction
- Because You Were Mine by Brionne Janae (Haymarket Books) for Lesbian Poetry
- Teeter by Kimberly Alidio (Nightboat Books) for Lesbian Poetry
- Desire Museum by Danielle Cadena Deulen (BOA Editions) for Bisexual Poetry
- Good Grief, the Ground by Margaret Ray (BOA Editions) for Bisexual Poetry
- Transitory by Subhaga Crystal Bacon (BOA Editions) for Transgender Poetry
- Toska by Alina Pleskova (Deep Vellum Publishing) for LGBTQ+ Poetry
- Fat Ham by James Ijames (Theatre Communications Group) for LGBTQ+ Drama
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, April 2.
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| | American Mother
by Colum McCann and Diane Foley
Etruscan Press • March 2024 • 9798985882452
“An innovative, unsettling and utterly compelling narrative. . . . Differing perspectives offer intriguing insights into the questions of blame and forgiveness that consume Foley.” — Washington Post
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| | I Hotel
by Karen Tei Yamashita
Coffee House Press • October 2019 • 9781566895453
“I Hotel is made up of a series of interconnected novellas set over 10 years in and around one real-life Chinatown hotel. . . . This is certainly the Great San Francisco Novel. I’m angry for all the years I wasted not having read it.” — Read Like the Wind (New York Times)
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| New Digital Review Copies
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“A well told coming-out story of an Orthodox Jewish boy from his childhood to the end of high-school. Mann recounts his struggles as well as his joys of being queer while questioning his religion. The art is charming and lends itself well to the story.” — Gabriel J., Peabody Institute Library
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