Hot News This Week
April 27, 2023
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The new Consortium Fall/Winter 2023-24 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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“What I love about this title is how inclusive it is, reflecting the growing nature of what it means to be Asian American in 2023. From multi-racial identity to intersectionality, this children’s book recognizes the full scope of how we got to where we are today.” — Lucy Tan, Secret Garden Books (Seattle, WA)
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| Celebrating an LA Times Book Prize Winner and Two International Booker Prize Finalists
Major congrats to these wonderful authors, translators, and presses!
Solenoid
by Mircea Cartarescu, trans. Sean Cotter
Deep Vellum Publishing • October 2022 • 9781646052028
Boulder
by Eva Baltasar, trans. Julia Sanches
And Other Stories • August 2022 • 9781913505387
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| Read This Next: Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young-Lutunatabua’s Not Too Late
On April 24, Rebecca Solnit was interviewed on Marketplace about her new book Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, which she co-edited with Thelma Young-Lutunatabua. “This is the decade of decision. We need people to participate,” Solnit tells host Amy Scott. “And so this book is really a toolbox to equip people with the ideas, the hope, the confidence, the context, to go forth and do something.”
Learn more about the book from interviews and coverage in Democracy Now!, Washington Post, British Vogue, Alta, Environmental Defense Fund, Covering Climate Now, Literary Hub, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist—as well as from celebs Natalie Portman, Linda Carter, and Mark Ruffalo, who shared Not Too Late on social media in honor of Earth Day.
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, May 2.
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| | The Ice Harp
by Norman Lock
Bellevue Literary Press • July 2023 • 9781954276178
★ “An elegiac, powerful book about a thinker’s limitations . . . Over the last decade, the stylistic range and subtle connections on display in Lock’s American Novels cycle have afforded many pleasures.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “[A] haunting novel . . . This intensely readable whopper of a book provides a nuanced perspective on the human struggle to survive war through the lens of Hungary and the Roma people.” — Library Journal
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★ “A sensitive script, touches of humor, and a captivating design combine for an excursion readers will want to repeat.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “Dziubak creates a lush, intricately developed forest world that plays the sunlight of Little Rabbit’s daytime world off the moonlight and warm interior glow of Little Owl’s nocturnal life.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “[An] exceptional memoir . . . A powerful and complicated reckoning with the ghosts of family dysfunction. This one isn’t easy to shake.” — Publishers Weekly
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★ “Napier-Bell’s racy but shrewd look at the British music scene will fly off library shelves.” — Library Journal
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| | Iggy Horse
by Michael Earl Craig
Wave Books • April 2023 • 9781950268757
★ “Artfully constructed . . . Craig combines absurdity, thoughtful engagement with language, and linguistic play in his humorous latest.” — Publishers Weekly
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“Ms. Gopegui’s novel brilliantly steps into the middle of volatile and troubling debates about artificial intelligence, ethics and the meaning of personhood. . . . This book has excited me more than any that I have read this year, as much for its tenderness as for its insights.” — Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
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| | Earth Angel
by Madeline Cash
CLASH Books • April 2023 • 9781955904698
“Uncanny, poetic, and bleakly funny, Earth Angel reaches for a higher power in a society that has forgotten how to believe.” — Los Angeles Review of Books
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| | Grimmish
by Michael Winkler
Coach House Books • April 2023 • 9781552454664
“There’s a quality of Pynchonian buffoonery to these chapters. . . . In his rambunctious novel Grimmish, Australian writer Michael Winkler forges a kinship with a boxer of similarly hardheaded disposition.” — Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
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“A real literary event . . . [Palol] has hewn a rough gem of postmodern experimentation out of pure imaginational bedrock, a work in equal parts unwieldy and extraordinary.” — Los Angeles Review of Books
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“Written and illustrated by Lisa Voisard, and translated from the French by Jeffrey K. Butt, the book lays out the characteristics of all sorts of trees, principally in North America, with a nice mix of field-guide facts and cultural commentary.” — Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal
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| New Digital Review Copies
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Freedom House
by KB Brookins
Deep Vellum Publishing • June 2023 • 9781646052639
“Brookins’s debut full-length collection explores what it really means to be free in America, particularly as a Black, queer, trans writer living in Texas; their writing style is urgent and timely while still holding space for the possibility of a life lived on one’s own terms.” — Vogue
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At the London Book Fair, Publishers Weekly spoke with Bitter Lemon Press about celebrating their 20th anniversary.
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