Hot News This Week
August 14, 2025
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| Two standout titles from Consortium publishers are getting the special edition treatment this fall . . .
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| Remembering Sallie Bingham
We’re saddened by the loss of Sallie Bingham, playwright, activist, and author, who passed away this month at the age of 88. According to the New York Times obituary, Bingham was born into a Kentucky media dynasty, and she sought better treatment for employees while working for their newspaper in the 1980s. As a result of her advocacy, her brother ousted her from the company, and it subsequently unraveled.
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| | Helen of Nowhere
by Makenna Goodman
Coffee House Press • September 2025 • 9781566897358
“A novel about a male professor, his younger wife, a realtor, and the ghost of Helen, the home’s recent owner. I absolutely loved this perfectly strange novel with some of my favorite sentences of the year!” — Caitlin Luce Baker, Island Books (Mercer Island, WA)
“A triumph of tone and sneaky philosophical depth, and an absolute joy to read from start to stunning finish.” — Bryan Seitz, Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)
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“The genius of this collection is the way each story grabs your attention like clickbait but holds on with the sheer force of the author’s storytelling prowess. Perfect for lovers of Tony Tulathimutte and Patricia Lockwood.” — Fisher Nash, Carmichael’s Bookstore (Louisville, KY)
“Witty and well written stories chronicling life in London for apathetic millennials. . . . Reminiscent (if slightly less disgusting) of Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection, but with a modernist (Joycean, in particular) twist.” — Charlie Jones, A Room of One’s Own (Madison, WI)
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★ “This lightly gothic picture book for readers seeking a ‘slightly spooky’ story illustrates the dual perils of taking more than we give and not asking for what we need.” — Shelf Awareness
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★ “Canny, meandering, and revelatory, it’s a remarkable family memoir that stretches across major developments of the 20th century while questioning how the truth gets produced. Readers will be riveted.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | New Digital Review Copies
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“[Mellis] joyfully overturns outdated assumptions about what art is and is not capable of, ultimately demonstrating that it’s capable of everything, including our salvation.” BOMB Magazine recently interviewed Miranda Mellis, author of Crocosmia (Nightboat Books).
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“Maya Arad marries the metafictional play of Nabokov with the moral warmth of Jane Austen.” Maya Arad’s Happy New Years, translated by Jessica Cohen (New Vessel Press), received a nice write-up in the Jewish Review of Books.
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Words Without Borders recently recommended Faïza Guène’s novel Discretion, translated by Sarah Ardizzone (Saqi Books), on a list of books by women writers from the Maghreb and its diaspora.
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ABA, SCIBA, MPIBA, PNBA, NCIBA, NAIBA, SIBA, GLIBA, and NEIBA Bestseller
I Who Have Never Known Men
by Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz
Transit Books • May 2022 • 9781945492600
🌙 Collector's Edition 🌙
coming in hardback this September, with a new intro by Carmen Maria Machado
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Little World
by Josephine Rowe
Transit Books • August 2025 • 9798893380163
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