Hot News This Week
May 15, 2025
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| Browse titles from Consortium publishers affected by grant terminations from the National Endowment for the Arts. We’ll be updating the Edelweiss collection as we learn more.
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| Cosmic Kid-Lit
Consortium’s latest Kids Kaleidoscope, a monthly newsletter dedicated to children’s books, features four picture books for aspiring astronauts and burgeoning alien enthusiasts, plus recent kids’ book news and reviews.
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| Authors Talk Climate Catastrophe with Rachel Kushner and Jenny Odell
“Poetry has this special capacity to be an apocalyptic form, in service to revelation. It can put such discreet things in proximity, like an oil field and sex, climate catastrophe and heartbreak.” Rosie Stockton, author of Fuel (Nightboat Books), spoke with author Rachel Kushner for Interview Magazine.
“Part of what my book reckons with are the failures and breakdown of language in the age of climate catastrophe, but also—what good is language anyway? We have to do something.” Lauren Markham, author of Immemorial (Transit Books), was interviewed by author Jenny Odell for Los Angeles Review of Books.
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| Tony, Eisner, and Locus Award Finalists
We’re thrilled to highlight a spate of good award tidings for Consortium publishers . . .
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| Five titles published by Theatre Communications Group are nominated for 2025 Tony Awards, which celebrate excellence in Broadway theatre.
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| Four titles are finalists for the 2025 Locus Awards, which recognize excellence in science fiction and fantasy literature and works.
Our friends at Small Beer Press are also up for the Locus Award for best publisher.
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| Numerous titles are finalists for the 2025 Eisner Awards, which highlight the best publications and creators in comics and graphic novels.
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“A precise, unsparing parable that left me even more certain that Maia is one of our most exciting contemporary writers.” — Bryan Seitz, Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)
“Akin to horror stories like Apocalypse Now and ‘The Most Dangerous Game,’ where extreme isolation leads to desperation and madness, ending in a fight for survival.” — Tony Paese, Books & Company (Oconomowoc, WI)
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“An atmospheric mystery with a sci-fi twist . . . this novella is a perfect day-read for fans of VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series; eerie, ensnaring and wholly honest in its depiction of a strained sibling relationship.” — Flora Arnsberger, Epilogue Books (Chapel Hill, NC)
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| | Avidya
by Vidyan Ravinthiran
Bloodaxe Books • June 2025 • 9781780377391
★ “Allusive, musical, studied yet tender, this is a wonder. . . . The marvelous, shape-shifting latest from Ravinthiran features poems of relocation and dislocation.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “A fascinating, swirling meditation on law enforcement, rising authoritarianism, misinformation, climate change, and the global spread of ag-gag laws.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “In crystalline prose, this sheds light on not only the struggles of the unhoused but the heartlessness of a society that would rather not see them at all.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “Boyd’s understated yet deeply moving second graphic memoir recounts her experience as a shy girl entering junior high in late 1970s Canada. . . . Boyd crafts scenes that are piercingly precise.” — Publishers Weekly
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“A startling and powerful experience . . . this is a novel about not just these boys, or men, but the world that gives rise to them.” — Chicago Tribune
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| | Comemadre
by Roque Larraquy, trans. Heather Cleary
Coffee House Press • July 2018 • 9781566895156
“By turns a workplace comedy, a philosophical inquisition, and a smorgasbord of bodily horror . . . a book that dares to imagine what lies at the outer limits of human morality. It’s also sexy and hilarious.” — The Atlantic, “24 Books to Get Lost in This Summer”
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“This rollicking feminist classic, originally published in 1972, was Drexler’s third novel. A writer, artist and film-maker, we might think of her as the Miranda July of her day. . . . To Smithereens oozes sleazy, sexy style.” — TLS
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“An unforgettable picture of marital love. . . . [Daanje’s] achievement is to bring us so close to her characters, and for so long an exposure, that they seem emotionally naked, utterly human in their desires and deceptions.” — Wall Street Journal
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“I’m so glad that independent publishers are here to make sure Wojnarowicz’s work, which feels like it could’ve been written yesterday, is never forgotten.” — Los Angeles Times, “30 Must-Read Books for Summer”
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| | New Digital Review Copies
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On May 8, author Dalia Al-Dujaili spoke with Dazed about Babylon, Albion (Saqi Books), an “impassioned love letter to her British and Iraqi heritage.”
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ABA, MPIBA, NAIBA, MIBA, SCIBA, GLIBA, NEIBA, and SIBA Bestseller
I Who Have Never Known Men
by Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz
Transit Books • May 2022 • 9781945492600
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