Aurora James, the groundbreaking fashion entrepreneur and founder of the 15 Percent Pledge, announced her forthcoming memoir WILDFLOWER. In a note to future readers, James writes: “WILDFLOWER is not just my story, it’s a story that in so many ways is about all of us — and the pressures we feel to blossom even in the harshest conditions...I hope that this book can serve as a vessel to allow us to come together and talk about the good parts and talk about the hard parts and ultimately create space for each other to get more of what we need...You and I were always born to be wildflowers.” James appeared on NBC News Daily on November 1 to discuss the book. She is also a 2022 Glamour Woman of the Year honoree. Crown will publish WILDFLOWER on May 9, 2023.

THE SWANK HOTEL by Lucy Corin was featured on The New Yorker’s list of “The Best Books of 2022 So Far,” alongside praise from their previous review of the novel: “[A] hypnotic, antic novel…Corin conveys a sense that insanity is everywhere.” Graywolf Press published the book on October 5, 2021.

THE STARS ARE NOT YET BELLS by Hannah Lillith Assadi was featured on The New Yorker’s list of “The Best Books of 2022 So Far.” Riverhead Books published the novel on January 11, 2022.

GIRLS THEY WRITE SONGS ABOUT by Carlene Bauer was featured on The New Yorker’s list of “The Best Books of 2022 So Far,” alongside an excerpt of their previous praise of the novel: “[A] prickly-coy novel…Bauer is a crackerjack chronicler of the slide into humility which follows ravenous early adulthood.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the book on June 21, 2022.

VERY COLD PEOPLE by Sarah Manguso was featured on The New Yorker’s list of “The Best Books of 2022 So Far,” alongside an excerpt from their previous review of the novel: “The poet and memoirist Sarah Manguso’s debut novel has a fairy-tale quality, a ring of the nursery rhyme lent by its symmetries, prototypical figures, and brutality…In minimalist, austere prose, Manguso conjures the torpor, stasis, and ambient suffering that envelop a whole town.” Hogarth published the novel on February 8, 2022.

The New York Times featured Meg Howery’s debut novel THEY’RE GOING TO LOVE YOU on its list of “15 Books Coming in November,” writing: “Howrey, a former dancer with the Joffrey Ballet, brings an insider’s view of the discipline to this buzzy novel, which is about a choreographer grappling with painful family memories after receiving the news that her father is dying.” Doubleday will publish the book on November 15, 2022.

STRANGERS TO OURSELVES by Rachel Aviv was featured on The New Yorker’s list of “The Best Books of 2022 So Far.” The citation reads: “Aviv, a staff writer, offers a groundbreaking exploration of mental illness and the mind, through a series of portraits that illuminate the connections between identity and diagnosis. Aviv’s original reporting, about the challenges of taking psychiatric drugs, first appeared in the magazine, in 2019.” Farrar, Straus, & Giroux published the book on September 13, 2022.