News in May 2017
News in May 2017
Samantha Hunt has been honored as a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow! Kirkus, in a starred review, lauded Samantha Hunt’s first story collection THE DARK DARK as “a tour de force collection from one of our most inventive storytellers.” FSG will publish her latest book, THE DARK DARK, on July 18, 2017.
Dinaw Mengestu was included in Granta’s 3rd issue of Best of Young American Novelists. His latest novel, ALL OUR NAMES, was published by Knopf on March 4, 2014...
Jess Arndt’s LARGE ANIMALS receives a rave review from Sarah Gerard in A Women’s Thing. She writes: “Jess Arndt’s debut story collection “Large Animals” (144 pages; Catapult) is intellectual but not above bathroom humor, morbid yet always in service of troubling divisions—between genders, between oneself and another, between different versions of oneself.” Catapult will publish LARGE ANIMALS on May 9, 2017...
Publishers Weekly gives Eugene Lim’s forthcoming DEAR CYBORGS a starred review, calling it a “short, sly, unorthodox novel… The core relationships are real and profoundly moving.” FSG Originals will publish DEAR CYBORGS on June 6, 2017...
Kirkus names Jaroslav Kalfar’s SPACEMAN OF BOHEMIA one of 7 Books That Need a Sequel. Little, Brown published SPACEMAN OF BOHEMIA on March 7, 2017...
Laura Kipnis’s UNWANTED ADVANCES was the subject of a feature piece by Eileen G’Sell, who wrote of its author: “Even if the current is choppy and the shore miles off, the journey seems more important than ever, and one feels grateful to tread behind her.” Harper published the book April 4, 2017.
Sarah Manguso was interviewed in Vol. 1 Brooklyn for her new book of aphorisms, 300 ARGUMENTS, where Michelle Lyn King said: “There isn’t a single argument in this book that left me confused or wanting more.” Graywolf published the book February 7, 2016...
FLY ME was chosen as one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Summer Books of 2017 with a glowing review from Jonathan Segura, executive editor. Segura called the novel “the perfect balance of grit and gloss.” Little, Brown will publish the book on June 6, 2016...