News in August 2016
News in August 2016
The first in a series starring the character of Teddy Fay from the Stuart Woods’ bestselling Stone Barrington series debuted at number 7 on the USA Today Bestseller list for the week of August 11, 2016.
The 3rd novel by Lara Vapnyar was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review. The reviewer, Charles Bock, calls it “minutely observed, razor funny and wholly wonderful.” Hogarth published the book on August 2, 2016....
Manuel Gonzalez’s THE REGIONAL OFFICE IS UNDER ATTACK! was declared one of the Best Audiobooks of 2016 so Far by Bookriot. Writes Jamie Canaves, “A smart, bonkers, and awesome book.” Riverhead published the book April 12, 2016...
Elliott Ackerman was profiled by the popular blog Humans of New York. His latest novel is DARK AT THE CROSSING, will be published by Knopf on January 24, 2017...
Idra Novey’s WAYS TO DISAPPEAR received a very favorable review in The Sunday Times, where Francesca Angelini praised it as a “comic, noir-ish page-turner and a clever, metafictional reflection on the nature of translating.” Little, Brown and Company published the book on February 9, 2016..
Ramona Ausubel’s SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF EASE AND PLENTY was featured in Jia Tolentino’s essay for the New Yorker’s Page-turner, “Novels of White Status Anxiety. Riverhead published the book on June 14, 2016....
Stuart Nadler’s THE INSEPARABLES garnered a rave review in the New York Times Book Review. Stuart Nadler wrote an essay for Lit Hub, “To All the Characters I’ve Killed Off, Who Haunt Me Still,” which ran on the website and was picked up for their newsletter. Little, Brown and Company published the book on July 19, 2016...
Booklist gave NINTH CITY BURNING glowing review, calling it a “thrilling kickoff to an action-packed series.” Ace will publish the book on September 6, 2016....
Bookforum gave WHITE NIGHTS IN SPLIT TOWN CITY a long and glowing review. “White Nights is the study of a failing family—how it is dismantled from within, how it is threatened by the world outside. DeWitt steers headlong into the most intimate and uncomfortable aspects of this disintegration, but, like Olds, she shows the glory in the terrible, the beauty in the bomb.” Tyrant Books published the book on August 9, 2016....
The German edition of THE QUESTION OF RED was awarded the LiBeraturpreis for 2016 by the Society for the Promotion of African, Asian and Latin American Literature. Both THE QUESTION OF RED and Pamuntjak’s second novel ARUNA AND HER PALATE were also shortlisted for the Khatulistiwa Award, the top literary award in Indonesia. AmazonCrossing published THE QUESTION OF RED in English on July 12, 2016....
The latest novel by Delia Ephron debut at number 16 on the New York Times Hardcover Bestseller list for the week of August 7, 2016. The book was also recently named one of the 100 Best Beach reads by Vulture. Blue Rider Press published the book on July 12, 2016.
Stuart is on the cover of this week’s issue of Kirkus, with a feature interview of his “dazzling new novel” THE INSEPARABLES. Little, Brown and Company published the book on July 19, 2016.