Hot News This Week
April 25, 2024
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| The new Consortium Fall/Winter 2024-25 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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| | Food School
by Jade Armstrong
Conundrum Press • April 2024 • 9781772620962
“Jade Armstrong creates a light-hearted atmosphere even when talking about more serious topics. . . . Armstrong presents the narrative with easy-going comedy, charming illustrations, and dialogue that can be heard from real young people today.” — Gao Her, Boswell Book Company (Milwaukee, WI)
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“Tyree Daye is nothing short of life-changing, a poet who understands risk and isn’t afraid to take it. . . . a little bump in the earth is poetry that archives, poetry that metamorphoses, and in many unexpected ways, it’s a book of love poetry.” — Terrance Hudson, Epilogue Books (Chapel Hill, NC)
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| Publishers Weekly Spotlights Indie Presses
We’re thrilled to see Publishers Weekly celebrate indie presses with their first-ever issue dedicated to independent bookselling and publishing. In the April 22 issue, several Consortium publishers were interviewed for a feature on what it takes to run an indie press; read the piece here for insights from our friends at 1984 Publishing, CLASH Books, Common Notions, and Street Noise Books. Plus, listen to Liz Frances of Street Noise on the PW Comics World: More to Come podcast, where she discusses her mission to showcase underrepresented voices.
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| Celebrating the Legacy of Etel Adnan
On April 15, the late poet and painter Etel Adnan was honored with a Google Doodle marking the anniversary of her first solo exhibition in 1955. Browse Adnan’s titles from City Lights Publishers, Nightboat Books, and Theatre Communications Group/PAJ Publications—including The Beauty of Light, a newly published interview with Adnan conducted by Laure Adler in the months before her death in November 2021.
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, April 30.
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★ “A well-deserved spot on the role-model shelf. . . . In this winningly informal introduction, a budding young writer sits with Vigdís to enjoy her famous Bessastaðir cookies and chat about her early years.” — Booklist
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★ “A deeply satisfying collection . . . whether personifying the chaos of the Israeli occupation of Palestine as actual madness or poking fun at the remnants of British colonialism in Egypt, many of the stories confound common stereotypes about the region.” — Booklist
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“Dutton’s take on human existence is consistently surreal, her work a collage of dreamlike juxtapositions.” — New York Times Book Review
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| | The Egg Incident
by Ziggy Hanaor, illus. Daisy Wynter
Cicada Books • April 2024 • 9781800660434
“Talking eggs are intrinsically funny, but Ms. Hanaor and Ms. Wynter miss no opportunity to make them even funnier. . . . Humphrey marvels, after surviving a tumble; ‘I seem to be more robust than I thought!’ Helicopter parents, take note: What’s true of an egg in a story may be true of your children, too.” — Wall Street Journal
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| | Short War
by Lily Meyer
Deep Vellum / A Strange Object • April 2024 • 9781646053155
“A moving . . . tale of first love set against the backdrop of imminent war.” — Wall Street Journal
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| | Death Styles
by Joyelle McSweeney
Nightboat Books • April 2024 • 9781643622309
“After McSweeney’s infant daughter died, she found herself unable to write for two years. She made her way back via the torrent of poems in this collection; the result is like a volcano, spewing details of pop culture and regular life amid waves of grief and perseverance.” — New York Times Book Review
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| New Digital Review Copies
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“Funny and thoughtful, a graphic memoir that says it’s okay to not be okay.” — Consuelo Wilder, BookPeople (Austin, TX)
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J. Storrs Hall’s Where Is My Flying Car? (Stripe Press) features prominently in a recent New Yorker article on the “advanced air mobility” (aka flying car) industry.
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As reported by YES! Weekly, a film adaptation of The Ghost Trap by K. Stephens (Leapfrog Press) premiered at RiverRun International Film Festival last week.
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