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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 20h

Fifteen Dogs: Tenth Anniversary Edition is now available in paperback and hardcover!

André Alexis has signed a limited number of copies. While supplies last, all orders for the Fifteen Dogs: Tenth Anniversary Edition hardcover placed on chbooks.com will receive a copy signed by the author.

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Consortium Book Sales & Distribution @consortiumbooks.bsky.social · 21h

FOUR books from Consortium publishers are finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards! Read about them in our latest newsletter:

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Library Express: 4 National Book Award Finalists

+ classic tales and great works of literary horror Header image from illustration by Zoe Persico for Tonight Is Krampus Night! by Kyle Sullivan (Hazy Dell Press, October 2025). Hot News This Week Octo...

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 1d

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER is a FINALIST for the National Book Award @nationalbook.bsky.social for Translated Literature! Congratulations author Anjet Daanje+translator David McKay. "Superb...an unforgettable picture of marital love." @ssacks.bsky.social in @wsj.com.
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Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI and RICHARD SIKEN whose collections are finalists for the 2025 National Book Award! 🌟

Winners will be announced at a livestreamed ceremony on Nov. 19th. Register at https://bit.ly/48TAcj9

Congratulations to all honorees—it is an honor to be among you!

Three slides: The first reads "We are honored to announce that two Copper Canyon Press titles are finalists for the 2025
National Book Award!"

The second slide depicts the cover of Gabrielle Calvocoressi's The New Economy and the third depicts the cover of Richard Siken's I Do Know Some Things.

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 1d

Happy pub day to Fredrik deBoer and THE MIND REELS. "A searing portrait," - Publishers Weekly
"Slim but powerful," - Chicago Tribune. ‼️Out now.‼️

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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 1d

Happy pub day to Elaine Feeney's new novel LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY!
The Booker-nominated author returns with a "gut-wrenching" (Publishers Weekly), "absorbing" (Kirkus), and "hugely satisfying" (The Guardian) multi-generational family story about grief, inheritance, trauma and tradwives.

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Consortium Book Sales & Distribution @consortiumbooks.bsky.social · 2d

This week in Consortium Corner, hear from Ellen Towell, Consortium sales rep with the Karel/Dutton Group. Read the full interview, which highlights a memorable Vegas trip and yet another Consortium meet-cute (see also: Julie Schaper's Q&A).

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Charco Press @charcopress.com · 2d

The full trailer for DIE MY LOVE is here!

Read the book before seeing it in cinemas in Nov: charcopress.com/bookstore/di...

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DIE MY LOVE | Official Trailer | In Theaters November | With Jennifer Lawrence & Robert Pattinson

YouTube video by MUBI

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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 6d

"VATTU Book 1: The Name and the Mark" has a well-deserved ⭐STARRED REVIEW⭐ in @publisherswkly.bsky.social!

CONGRATS, @evandahm.bsky.social!

www.publishersweekly.com/9781638991557

The Name and the Mark (Vattu #1) by Evan Dahm

The spectacular first volume of Dahm’s long-running webcomic ushers readers into an instantly immersive fantasy world. In the ye...

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New Vessel Press @newvesselpress.bsky.social · 9d

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, longlisted @nationalbook.bsky.social's Natl Book Award for Translation, featured @wwborders.bsky.social. Translator
David McKay "was bowled over by just about every facet" of Anjet Daanje's novel: "the bold, unique style, the complex characters..the thought-provoking themes."

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Consortium Book Sales & Distribution @consortiumbooks.bsky.social · 12d

In the latest edition of Consortium Corner, we're spotlighting Jaya Anderson, former bookseller and children’s book enthusiast! Read about her fave picture books, her epic fantasy WIP, and more. Consortium Corner is a series of Q&As celebrating our 40th anniversary 🎉

www.cbsd.com/blog/2025/09...

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Consortium Book Sales & Distribution @consortiumbooks.bsky.social · 12d

In the latest edition of Consortium Corner, we're spotlighting Jaya Anderson, former bookseller and children’s book enthusiast! Read about her fave picture books, her epic fantasy WIP, and more. Consortium Corner is a series of Q&As celebrating our 40th anniversary 🎉

www.cbsd.com/blog/2025/09...

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 13d

“It’s tempting, especially in 2025, to see the world as kind of an undifferentiated history of awfulness, exploitation, and oppression. But how the world works has changed dramatically, and has always been contested.” @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social www.forewordreviews.com/articles/art...

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 13d

@willpotter.bsky.social discusses his new book LITTLE RED BARNS with @democracynow.org

www.democracynow.org/2025/9/24/li...

“Little Red Barns”: Author Will Potter on How Industrial Animal Agriculture Breeds Authoritarianism

We continue our conversation with Will Potter, the author of Little Red Barns, an investigation into the state repression of journalists, environmentalists and animal rights activists who attempt to e...

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Consortium Book Sales & Distribution @consortiumbooks.bsky.social · 19d

The next staff spotlight in our 40th anniversary celebration features Mary Burns, Consortium’s resident manga expert. Read her Q&A, where Mary discusses a formative manga text, the liberatory possibilities of Black Joy, and childhood rides on library lion statues:

www.cbsd.com/blog/2025/09...

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Consortium Book Sales & Distribution @consortiumbooks.bsky.social · 19d

The next staff spotlight in our 40th anniversary celebration features Mary Burns, Consortium’s resident manga expert. Read her Q&A, where Mary discusses a formative manga text, the liberatory possibilities of Black Joy, and childhood rides on library lion statues:

www.cbsd.com/blog/2025/09...

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Helvetiq @helvetiq.bsky.social · 21d

Orlando: Virginia Woolf’s surreal journey through time, identity, and love — now reimagined and illustrated as a graphic novel by Susanne Kuhlendahl. @susanne_kuhlendahl
A book like a dream that refuses to fit into any box.

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arsenalpulp.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social · 22d

New! #RunsInTheBlood by Matthew J. Trafford is a dark and funny short story collection that reveals poignant truths about queer chosen family.

“This book and these characters feel like a revelation.” —Brian Francis, author of FRUIT

👉 Out now in Canada & the US: arsenalpulp.com/Books/R/Runs...

The cover of the book "Runs in the Blood" by Matthew J. Trafford, with stacked text above reading, "Happy book birthday!", along with the book title and author's name. Below, footer text lists the publisher, Arsenal Pulp Press, and their website, arsenal pulp dot com.

On the book cover, an illustrated centaur and a large owl gaze at each other. The book title, “Runs in the Blood,” appears in large Gothic type over the image. At the bottom is the word “Stories” and the author’s name, “Matthew J. Trafford.” The cover is illustrated in an ancient Roman style with an overall colour cast of pink, teal, and cream.

Matthew J. Trafford, photographed by Thomas Trafford.

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Talonbooks @talonbooks.bsky.social · 22d

It's here! tours, variously by @drewmcew.bsky.social has landed and is ready for its place on your bookshelf. These poems guide the reader through an interrogation of the ways we tour the spaces of language, stepping between the sayable and the unsaid. ⁠

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A copy of tours, variously by Drew McEwan is held up against the backdrop of an ivy-covered white exterior wall. The book cover is a painting of a blue corner of a room, the interplay of light and shadow is emphasized. The brush strokes are intentionally visible. The title is all lower case in a serif font in the to left corner, the author's name in a darker version of the same font in the bottom right.

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Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 22d

Today we are publishing YOU MUST LIVE. Translated and edited by SHERAH BLOOR and TAYSEER ABU ODEH, this bilingual anthology from Gaza and the West Bank witnesses the realities of the Palestinian genocide, gathering voices from poets currently living in Palestinian territory. https://bit.ly/4nzqh6z

A photo of the book cover for You Must Live: New Poetry From Palestine against a light blue backdrop.

The second slide is an excerpt from the poem "I have never seen a corpse intact" by Waleed al-Aqqad. It reads:

Still, we wanted to hold you. But you were coming apart
into your own blood.
We were scared your face would be changed,
the smile you were known by
lost. We said goodbye
to you in your small death like the death
of sparrows.
We rearranged you.
We placed your severed hand across your chest,
covered your wounds with flowers,
cried as you wanted.
On your tombstone, we will not chisel "dispossessed."

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Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 23d

Congratulations, ARTHUR SZE, the twenty-fifth Poet Laureate of the United States! A longtime Copper Canyon poet, Sze will center the power of poetry and translation to “...deepen our attention, connect, and live more fully.”

Read more and discover Sze’s work at our website: https://bit.ly/4glCmd4

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Consortium Book Sales & Distribution @consortiumbooks.bsky.social · 23d

In our latest newsletter: National Book Award nominees, a NYT bestseller, and more!

Read it here:
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National Book Award Nominees and a NYT Bestseller - Consortium Book Sales & Distribution

Read this week’s Communiqué newsletter featuring National Book Award nominees and a NYT bestseller—plus, Carmen Maria Machado on I Who Have Never Known Men.

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Consortium Book Sales & Distribution @consortiumbooks.bsky.social · 23d

In our latest newsletter: National Book Award nominees, a NYT bestseller, and more!

Read it here:
www.cbsd.com/blog/2025/09...

National Book Award Nominees and a NYT Bestseller - Consortium Book Sales & Distribution

Read this week’s Communiqué newsletter featuring National Book Award nominees and a NYT bestseller—plus, Carmen Maria Machado on I Who Have Never Known Men.

www.cbsd.com

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 26d

🐊🐊🐊 Extremely cool news!!! @monaojedaf.bsky.social !!!
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Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal & Nick Antosca Adapting Coming-Of-Age Horror Novel ‘Jawbone’ For TV

Monica Ojeda's novel Jawbone is being developed for television by Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, and Nick Antosca.

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Consortium Book Sales & Distribution @consortiumbooks.bsky.social · 26d

And NORTH SUN by Ethan Rutherford (A Strange Object / Deep Vellum) makes the Fiction Longlist!! 🎉

Consortium Book Sales & Distribution @consortiumbooks.bsky.social · 28d

Thrilled to see @newvesselpress.bsky.social's THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER on the Translated Literature longlist. Meanwhile, titles from @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social, @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social, and @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social account for 50% (!!) of the Poetry longlist!

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 29d

We’re pleased to exclusively announce the longlist for the 2025 National Book Awards for Young People’s Literature. See it here.