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News - Literary News

April 14, 2023

The paperback edition of THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING by David Graber and David Wengrow debuted at #8 on The New York Times Bestseller list for Paperback Nonfiction for the week of April 23, 2023. The book also appeared on The New York Times’ Paperback Row, lauded as “hefty [and] irreverent.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the hardcover edition on November 9, 2021, and Picador published the paperback on April 4, 2023.

April 14, 2023

TAKE WHAT YOU NEED by Idra Novey is one of The Wall Street Journal's "Best Fiction for Spring 2023" picks. Viking published the book on March 14, 2023.

April 6, 2023

Anderson Cooper’s VANDERBILT is being developed as a series for Amazon Prime Video. The series will be adapted by Patrick Macmanus, who will also serve as an executive producer along with Cooper. Harper published VANDERBILT on September 21, 2021.

April 6, 2023

Ramona Ausubel's THE LAST ANIMAL was included on The Chicago Review of Books’ "Must-Read Books of April 2023," alongside generous praise: "[A]n incredibly sharp and sweeping novel about our modern planet with an intimate emotional core…Balancing the breadth and complexity of our ailing ecosystems and the resonant humanity of a grieving family, Ausubel has crafted an unforgettable tale for our time.” Town & Country included the book on their list of "The Best Books to Read This April," and Book Riot included it in their roundup of “Exciting New Sci-Fi And Fantasy Releases Out In April 2023." Riverhead Books publishes the book on April 17, 2023.

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SKIN by Lakiesha Carr
March 31, 2023

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SKIN by Lakiesha Carr was highlighted in The New Yorker's "Briefly Noted," where it was lauded as a "powerful debut." Pantheon published the novel on February 28, 2023.

TAKE WHAT YOU NEED by Idra Novey
March 31, 2023

TAKE WHAT YOU NEED received a starred review from Shelf Awareness, who wrote, "A novel in the hands of Idra Novey is one sure to startle and subvert readers’ expectations…TAKE WHAT YOU NEED grapples with large-scale xenophobic tensions, as well as the more finely detailed ones among family. Novey has again crafted a bold and uncompromising novel from a clear-eyed point of view.” Viking published the book on March 14, 2023.

March 24, 2023

The new edition of THE BEST OF EVERYTHING by Rona Jaffe continues to receive great buzz following its publication. The New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme, who wrote the introduction of the new edition, appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered on March 16 to speak about the book’s cultural impact 65 years after its initial publication. Laurie Hertzel from Star Tribune echoes the sentiment about THE BEST OF EVERYTHING’s timelessness, praising it as a “lively, delightful, and heartbreaking novel,” adding: “THE BEST OF EVERYTHING seized the mood of the moment and told the truth, and women by the millions devoured it. Sixty-five years later, I did, too.” Penguin Classics published the new edition of THE BEST OF EVERYTHING on March 14, 2023.

March 24, 2023

Lit Hub published an excerpt of Joseph Earl Thomas’ SINK, and included the book in their roundup of "Five Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week." Poets & Writers featured a conversation between Thomas and Elias Rodriques that took place at the Free Library of Philadelphia. The New York Times featured SINK as an Editors’ Choice pick, alongside generous praise: “The lush prose of this memoir perfectly suits the author’s tender, teeming boyhood imagination, in which video-game and manga characters offered more guidance than volatile adults did. Most remarkable is Thomas’s matter-of-fact depiction of the daily depredations he faced without losing his spirit or his abundant creative gifts.” Lastly, WNYC highlighted the memoir on "All of It with Alison Stewart." Grand Central Publishing published the book on February 21, 2023.

March 24, 2023

Bomb Magazine published a great conversation between TAKE WHAT YOU NEED author Idra Novey and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi. The Pittsburgh Gazette also published an interview with Novey, as well as a review of TAKE WHAT YOU NEED: “Sixty-four year old Jean, protagonist of Johnstown-native Idra Novey’s recent novel, TAKE WHAT YOU NEED, is willing to die in pursuit of transcendence. This will no doubt keep reader’s attention as Ms. Novey’s third novel […] cares deeply about balancing survival and self-actualization… Idra Novey’s TAKE WHAT YOU NEED is sure to lend readers perspective on living life to the fullest and accepting one’s life as valid, summed best in the book’s Louise Bourgeois epigram: ‘Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it, and then if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.’” Viking published the novel on March 14, 2023.

March 24, 2023

Southern Living included De'Shawn Charles Winslow on their great list of “Contemporary Southern Writers to Read Right Now,” highlighting both IN WEST MILLS and DECENT PEOPLE. SIBA’s Southern Bookseller Review ran a short “Spotlight” feature on DECENT PEOPLE, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn included a review of the book on its “Morning Bites” round-up. The Rumpus also published a great Q&A with Winslow, where Winslow teased his next project: “All I’ll say for now is that I’m stepping away from the fictional town of West Mills for my next project. I’m going to use a real North Carolina town, and it’ll be set in the ‘80s. No murders this time, but there will be deaths.” Bloomsbury published DECENT PEOPLE on January 17, 2023.