News in January 2014
News in January 2014
Jennifer Percy’s DEMON CAMP is an Amazon Best Book of the Month (Biography & Memoir) and was featured in articles by the New York Post and Washington Times discussing exorcism and PTSD. Scribner will publish the book on January 14, 2014.
Dinaw Mengestu was interviewed on “This Week In Fiction” on The New Yorker blog for his story published in the magazine, “The Paper Revolution.” The story is an excerpt from his forthcoming book, ALL OUR NAMES, which Knopf will publish on March 4, 2014.
Olivia Laing’s THE TRIP TO ECHO SPRING was reviewed on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, in the New York Times daily, The San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Salon, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. It was also named one of Flavorwire’s 10 Must-Read Books for January and is an Oxford American Editor’s Pick. The New York Times Book Review called the book “charming and gusto-driven,” while the Times Daily review called it “beguiling and incisive.”
James Scott’s THE KEPT is named the January featured debut on Amazon, a top 10 book of the month, and is an Amazon Editor’s Best Book of the Month pick (Mystery/Thriller/Suspense). Picador published the book on January 7, 2013.
Manuel Gonzales’ THE MINIATURE WIFE was reviewed in The Harvard Book Review, which called it a “vibrant debut collection” and said, “Gonzales has a remarkable ability to illustrate the fluidity of self…he powerfully represents the human instinct to put them back together—the human urge to understand and cope.” Riverhead published the book on January 10, 2013.