Hot News This Week
June 5, 2025
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| Revisit the excellent New York Times Book Review profile of our friends at Tilted Axis Press, a piece that just appeared in print last weekend. “With its emphasis on overlooked languages and narratives that often have a queer or feminist bent,” writes reporter Alexandra Alter, “Tilted Axis has helped to transform the landscape for translated fiction.”
Browse Tilted Axis titles here to see why they’ve “gained a reputation for bringing out a wide range of groundbreaking, genre-defying literature in translation.”
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| Headed to Children’s Institute?
Consortium publishers, reps, and staff are headed to Portland for Children’s Institute next week, and we’d love to see you there!
In the galley room and rep sessions, look for excellent children’s titles from Consortium publishers Albatros Media, Arsenal Pulp Press, Blue Dot Kids Press, Floris Books, Helvetiq, Inhabit Media, Little Island Books, and Transit Children’s Editions.
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| We’re Hiring
Love working with small presses, indie books, and sales reps? Come work with us! Consortium is hiring a full-time Sales Specialist to join our Minneapolis team.
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| | Little Fish
by Casey Plett
Arsenal Pulp Press • May 2018 • 9781551527208
“Little Fish is a slice of trans life—moments of beauty, devastation, the struggle to cope, the hope of holding onto the good in the face of all the heartbreak. This book is mournful in places, funny as hell in others, and often both at the same time, just as in life.” — Frederik Rossero, Oblong Books (Millerton, NY)
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“Fantasy and reality collide into a love obsessed time shifting frenzy. Three words to sum it up: Romance is Horror!” — Rachel Brewer, Carmichael’s Bookstore (Louisville, KY)
“An absolute powerhouse of a queer horror novella.” — Charlie Marks, Fountain Bookstore (Richmond, VA)
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“At turns sexy and sweet, violent and controlled, full of sweat and blood in all the ways that you can imagine, The New Lesbian Pulp mixes rediscovered or under-read classics with new writing in a cacophony of desire in all its forms, whether through sex, or murder (or casual ritual sacrifice, or kidnapping gone wrong—we all have layers).” — Mikey LaFave, Avid Bookshop (Athens, GA)
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“Raw, tender, horrific, compassionate. Everything we have left of David Wojnarowicz is to be cherished.” — Laurel Kane, White Whale Bookstore (Pittsburgh, PA)
“If you were only to pick up one David Wojnarowicz collection, I cannot stress enough how it should be Memories That Smell Like Gasoline. . . . I am so thrilled that Nightboat is rereleasing this with a new editor’s note and introduction by Ocean Vuong.” — Grace Sullivan, Fountain Bookstore (Richmond, VA)
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★ “Critic Wells delivers a potent behind-the-scenes look at book banning in this standout account. . . . It’s a decisive and fascinating take on a hot-button issue.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “A buoyant, beautiful explication of cultural adjustment as seen through a child’s eyes. . . . In this eloquent verse memoir, a young girl’s understanding of home evolves.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “One of the delights of reading Solnit is the invigorating sensation of forging new connections between unforeseen topics and ideas. In No Straight Road Takes You There, she absolutely does not disappoint.” — Shelf Awareness
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Madeleine Watts’s introduction to The Island by Antigone Kefala (Transit Books) was published in The Nation on June 4.
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ABA, MPIBA, PNBA, NEIBA, SCIBA, NAIBA, MIBA, and GLIBA Bestseller
I Who Have Never Known Men
by Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz
Transit Books • May 2022 • 9781945492600
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