Deadline, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter announced on August 3 that Carola Lovering’s TELL ME LIES has received a full season order from Hulu, with Emma Roberts executive producing, and Lovering herself serving as consulting producer. This series will be the first project launched via Belletrist’s first-look deal with Hulu, and Grace Van Patten is set to star in the lead role. Atria published TELL ME LIES on June 12, 2018, and St. Martin’s published Lovering’s latest novel, TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, on March 2, 2021.

Called “a graceful nod to the concept of food as a mode of global connection “ by Booklist, TOMATOES FOR NEELA is a celebration of food family and culture was written by Padma Lakshmi (Host of Top Chef and Taste the Nation) and illustrated by Caldecott Honor Winner, Juana Martinez-Neal. Viking Books for Young Readers publishes the hardcover August 31, 2021.

Kirkus Reviews editors featured THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV by Dawnie Walton on their list of Historical Fiction Headed in New Directions.
37 Ink published the novel March 30, 2021.

Keenan Norris, author of The Confession of Copeland Cane recommended Jamie Figueroa's debut novel, BROTHER, SISTER, MOTHER, EXPLORER in a list of Books by Black Latinx authors for Electric Literature. Catapult published the novel March 2, 2021.

Today.com editors recommended HEAVY by Kiese Laymon in a round-up, calling the memoir "powerful, honest and vulnerable." Scribner published the memoir March 5, 2019.

Named a Best Book of the Year by Esquire, The Millions, Harper's Bazaar, and BuzzFeed, David Hoon Kim's PARIS IS A PARTY, PARIS IS A GHOST was released this week to a glowing review in the New York Review of Books, who deem it a “ doleful, beautifully written study of the confused yearnings and scars of exile. . . Imperfect and meandering, but full of meticulously rendered thinking, Kim’s telling is a fine way out.” In their review, the Chicago Review of Books calls the novel "remarkable . . . Kim is an excellent sentence-level writer, eschewing both floweriness and over-simplicity. He treads lightly, but there are never any missteps, and his intelligence shines through in the easy flow of his prose.” FSG published the novel August 3, 2021.

2021 Booker Prize-finalist Sunjeev Sahota's CHINA ROOM continues to garner enthusiastic praise. The New Yorker reviewed the novel, writing that "Sahota is an enormously gifted writer… a bold storyteller who seems to have learned as many tricks from TV as from Tolstoy, and has a jeweler’s unillusioned eye for the goods." And in their review, the Wall Street Journal writes, “CHINA ROOM forges telling and skillful connections between the two very different eras, showing the ways that a place—a house, a room—can store up pieces of a remarkable past and release them, generations later, when someone comes looking.” Viking Books published the novel July 13, 2021.

In a Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews calls ON GIRLHOOD, edited by Glory Edim, “a profound, prismatic collection.” “Collecting the stories of literary giants—Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston—and contemporary authors including Camille Acker and Amina Gautier, the book presents an expansive, decades-spanning view of Black girlhood. Organized around the themes of innocence, belonging, love, and self-discovery, the collection is genuinely riveting; the stories narrate the lives of indelible characters with humor, irony, and immense skill.” ON GIRLHOOD publishes October 26, 2021 from Liveright.

The Financial Times, Mirror, and Channel 4 News are reporting the story behind the landing of British Airways Flight 149 in Kuwait City on the cusp of Iraq’s invasion, as exposed at length in Stephen Davis’s new book, OPERATION TROJAN HORSE. OPERATION TROJAN HORSE published July 22nd from Bonnier Books in the UK. It will publish September 7th in the US as FLIGHT 149 from PublicAffairs Books.