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October 16, 2025
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| “They gravitate toward voices that are messy, playful and sometimes raunchy, usually delivering unromanticized truths about loneliness, sex and class.” On Sunday, our friends at Hagfish were profiled in the Style section of the New York Times.
In the piece, co-founders Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo spoke with writer Quinn Moreland about bringing overlooked books back into print, a feminist project that “also includes contemporary writers they believe deserve more attention.” Rosalyn Drexler’s To Smithereens, released in May, marked their first publication, and next up are Iphgenia Baal’s Man Hating Psycho, out in November, and a reissue of In the City, Joan Silber’s 1987 novel, coming in spring 2026.
Read the NYT profile for more on Hagfish’s origins, fish colophon, and Man Hating Psycho merch.
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| Consortium Corner with Lindsay Eidel
In the latest Consortium Corner, we’re CC’ing Lindsay Eidel, our manager of client relations. Read the full interview here, which features:
- Lindsay’s terrific books recs, including a memoir that’ll make you consider daily marsh swims
- Leonard Nimoy at BEA for The Full Body Project
- A coveted reading spot at her childhood library
Consortium Corner is a Q&A series with staff and reps to celebrate Consortium’s 40 years of independent book distribution.
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“Interlocutor just might be my favorite collection of the year. . . . Line after line of thought-shifting wordplay, a playfulness with coming-of-age concepts, and a prismatic view of life written in some of the most creative uses of form and page space that I’ve seen in modern poetry.” — Andrew Preston, CoffeeTree Books (Morehead, KY)
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| | The New Economy
by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Copper Canyon Press • October 2025 • 9781556597213
“Calvocoressi has once again written a book with heart, full of attention to the line and the body, that will fill a reader with deep feelings—among them, gratitude and hope.” — Julia Paganelli Marin, Pearl’s Books (Fayetteville, AR)
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★ “This is a nonfiction book of facts about a subject kids love, presented with the authority and detail of National Geographic, but with a bit of zany humor. . . . A landmark work in the ‘kids love poop’ genre, this is a must-buy for every collection.” — School Library Journal
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| | Little F
by Michelle Tea
Feminist Press • October 2025 • 9781558613560
★ “This coming-of-age story soars. . . . By turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and hope-filled, the latest from Tea follows a 13-year-old runaway’s search for a queer paradise.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “A unique and revealing look at one facet of America’s deep relationship with Israel. . . . Historian Schuhrke spotlights in this eye-opening account the ‘more than one hundred–year alliance between US union officialdom and Zionism.’” — Publishers Weekly
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“This would be a powerful and controversial book at any point in US history. It becomes even more so in the current period when white supremacy is on a rampage hoping to bring back the days of legal apartheid and judicial legitimization of white domination.” — CounterPunch
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| | Vaim
by Jon Fosse, trans. Damion Searls
Transit Books • October 2025 • 9798893380217
“[A] mesmerizing little fable. . . . . There is much to admire in Fosse’s rhythmic prose, his bursts of humor and heightened sense of life’s pervasive oddness.” — Wall Street Journal
“Vaim floats between states, intermingling life and death, present and past, an interstitial novel about lives that never quite arrive at their culmination.” — Washington Post
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| | New Digital Review Copies
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“With the Model T, Ford didn’t just create a cheap, practical car. It built an efficiency engine.” FreeThink recently published an excerpt from Brian Potter’s The Origins of Efficiency (Stripe Press) on how Ford built out its Model T assembly line.
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“Even in this era when seemingly everything can be reclaimed, few have made the effort for [Ed Wood’s movies], making all the more compelling a new book that does so without necessarily making the case for Wood as a strictly speaking good filmmaker.” The Film Stage podcast recently hosted Will Sloan to discuss his new book, Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA (OR Books).
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ABA, MIBA, NAIBA, SCIBA, PNBA, SIBA, GLIBA, MPIBA, and NEIBA Bestseller
I Who Have Never Known Men
by Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz
Transit Books • May 2022 • 9781945492600
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| LibraryReads Pick for October
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Vampires at Sea
by Lindsay Merbaum
Creature Publishing • October 2025 • 9781951971229
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