PADMA’S ALL AMERICAN received a starred review from Booklist: “Beautiful photography and step-by-step instructions will tempt home cooks to try a new world of recipes, and Lakshmi's suggested pantry staples (chilis, herbs, oils) will make flavors pop. Delicious food and unforgettable immigrant stories will broaden and enrich readers' culinary repertoire, strengthening bonds among all who call America home.” Lakshmi was interviewed by Interview Magazine by J Lee, who writes: “Padma Lakshmi is pure aura. You can feel it from across the room. It radiates through your TV set, oozes from her TikToks, and pulses through her book. In person, it’s as bright as the sun...We talked about the past, we talked hot dogs, we talked shit. No French food, no rare steaks. She is booked, busy, and thriving. She likes her food hot. No sharing. She’s a boss, and she eats in bed–only Italian linens, no crumbs, no stains. She knows exactly who she is.” Lakshmi is on book tour now, with her next stop in Pittsburgh on November 10. Knopf published PADMA’S ALL AMERICAN on November 4, 2025.

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Sherri L. Smith’s middle-grade novel CANDACE, THE UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING received a starred review in Booklist Online. Reviewer John Peters writes: “The overall tone is whimsical; the distinctly ‘unordinary’ characters are thoroughly winsome, and readers will be well pleased to find the author leading them through an extraordinary quest to a promise of further adventures to come.” The novel was published on September 9, 2025 by Penguin Young Readers.

Yrsa Daley-Ward’s debut novel THE CATCH has been shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. Judge Simon Okotie praises: “THE CATCH is an extraordinary shape-shifting, genre-defying work of fiction. Reading, by turns, as popular fiction, literary fiction and science fiction, it calls all such distinctions into question. An engrossing and thought-provoking work, THE CATCH brings a compulsive, formally inventive logic that is all its own." The winner of the award will be announced on November 5, 2025. Liveright published THE CATCH in the US on June 3, 2025.

Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson’s CLAIRE MCCARDELL has been longlisted for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Simon & Schuster published CLAIRE MCCARDELL on June 17, 2025, and Dutton will publish Dickinson’s next book, THE RUBY SLIPPERS, in 2027.

Eugene Lim is a finalist for the 2025 John Dos Passos Prize, the oldest literary award given by a Virginia college or university. The winner will be announced at the end of this year. Coffee House Press published Lim’s most recent novel, FOG & CAR, on 7/16/24. Doubleday will publish Lim’s next novel, SPACE BAR, in 2027.

Haley Mlotek’s NO FAULT: A MEMOIR OF ROMANCE AND DIVORCE has been shortlisted for the 2025 Quebec Writers Federation Literary Awards’ Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction. Viking published NO FAULT on February 18, 2025.

In a starred review for PADMA’S ALL AMERICAN, Library Journal raves: “Once again, Lakshmi demonstrates true culinary grace and grit, in a book that is both homage and manifesto... [She] beautifully articulates what it means for her to use food as a lens into other people’s lives and cultures, and she gives voices to those whose daily lives are full of spices and specialties that many readers might, at first glance, view as unfamiliar…Lakshmi shows that these recipes, ranging from Afghani dumplings to Indian coconut rice to Peruvian tamales, are as all-American as apple pie in a book that is a love letter to the diversity of the United States, written through food.” Knopf will publish the book on November 4, 2025.

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Arabelle Sicardi’s essay collection THE HOUSE OF BEAUTY launched this week to great acclaim. Sicardi sat down for a Q&A with Ms. Magazine, discussing how “beauty is a labor issue,” and was a guest on the Trust Me podcast. Excerpts from the collection appeared in Allure and Business of Fashion. Sicardi has now embarked on a multi-city book tour that includes stops at Books are Magic in Brooklyn and “perfume swaps” in New York and LA. Norton published THE HOUSE OF BEAUTY on October 14, 2025.