Hot News This Week
October 26, 2023
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| The new Consortium Spring/Summer 2024 catalogs are now available! Featuring titles of all genres from over 150 indie publishers around the world, the Adult and Children’s/YA catalogs, plus the Professional/Short Discount list, can all be found on Edelweiss. Happy browsing!
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“This is it. This is the book that goes to 11. Justin Phillip Reed presents a hybrid narrative as grotesque as it is beautiful. I was captivated throughout, or rather captured by it; this book possesses its reader like a blood moon. I loved it even when it frightened me.” — Jihye Shin, Greenlight Bookstore (Brooklyn, NY)
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| Most-Staged Theater Productions for the 2023-24 Season
American Theatre has released their list of top ten most-produced plays for the 2023-24 season, and half of the titles are current or future Theatre Communications Group publications:
As further reported in the New York Times last week, What the Constitution Means to Me is the number one most-staged play, with 16 productions around the country.
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Oct. 31.
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★ “A striking graphic narrative archive of gun violence and collective misery during the summer of 2022. . . . It’s a bristling and necessary catalogue of collective anguish.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | Unended
by Josh Bayer
Uncivilized Books • November 2023 • 9781941250563
★ “A triumph. . . . Indie comics mainstay Bayer confronts childhood traumas while struggling to adapt his estranged father’s unfinished play in this thorny hybrid of family memoir and peek behind the artistic process.” — Publishers Weekly
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“Atoms Never Touch packs a lot of power. . . . cárdenas also conjures an immersive dystopia, full of facial recognition, augmented-reality lenses and a brutal security state — while still showing the power of community and resistance.” — Washington Post
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| | Nefando
by Mónica Ojeda, trans. Sarah Booker
Coffee House Press • October 2023 • 9781566896894
“Cerebral, sensual and unapologetically scatological, this techno-horror tale is obsessed with ‘the internal conflict between man and beast, intellect and instinct, life and death.’. . . Ojeda is a superb novelist who understands the complexity of the human condition.” — New York Times Book Review
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“The book is an epic of mothers and daughters, rather than of fathers and sons, husbands and wives, or war and peace, and Young’s sentences, which marry the breadth of Whitman to the opulence of Nabokov, are among the most virtuosic ever produced by an American novelist.” — New Yorker
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| | The Shining
by Dorothea Lasky
Wave Books • October 2023 • 9781950268856
“Lasky’s distinctly feminist lens crystallizes the horrors of the infamous Overlook Hotel anew. Plumbing the contested shadows of self-image and desire, neither she nor the reader can escape ‘that terrible terror of being / that’s me.’” — New York Times Book Review
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| New Digital Review Copies
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Standing Heavy
by Gauz', trans. Frank Wynne
Biblioasis • October 2023 • 9781771966009
“This combines some of my favorite things: a solid one-sit read, an elegant translation, and an author willing to play with form.” — Carrie Koepke, Skylark Bookshop (Columbia, MO)
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On October 21, New York Times Book Review editor Gregory Cowles recommended Mary Ruefle’s The Book (Wave Books) in the NYT’s Read Like the Wind newsletter.
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On October 23, PRINT spoke with outsider artist Ken Grimes about extraterrestrial life and his new book, Evidence for Contact (Anthology Editions).
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Emily Lee Luan, author of 回 / Return (Nightboat Books), was interviewed by BOMB on October 19.
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Titles from Charco Press, Feminist Press, Open Letter, and Transit Books are among the finalists for the inaugural 2023 Cercador Prize, a literary translation award bestowed by a committee of independent booksellers.
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