News in December 2023
News in December 2023
SONIC LIFE by Thurston Moore was featured on best of 2023 roundups from Kirkus and Vanity Fair. Doubleday published the book on October 24, 2023.
Charles Cumming was featured on The Telegraph’s list of British spy novelists who might be 'the next John le Carre.” Mysterious Press published the novel on November 7, 2023.
AMONG THE BROS by Max Marshal received a stellar review from Air Mail. Reviewer Sarah Weinman writes: “There’s a jauntiness to Marshall’s voice that makes AMONG THE BROS a contradictory reading experience: it’s entertaining, in the way that reminded me of a certain type of magazine journalism that largely died out in the past decade. His decision to present many of his interviews in oral-history style generally works, too. But because the story Marshall tells is marinated in the toxicity of being a young man in contemporary America, particularly one where access to whatever you want without real consequence produces even greater dissonance, there’s a jarring quality overall… AMONG THE BROS is a sobering tour of the mindset of such men and how even when the party curdles into violence, drug dealing, and murder, it doesn’t really stop.” Marshall also appeared on Good Day LA to discuss “[t]he grim realities of ‘Frat Bro Culture.’” Harper published the book on November 7, 2023.
Tyriek White’s acclaimed novel WE ARE A HAUNTING is the winner of The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize. Astra House published the book on April 25, 2023.
The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant selected Edna Bonhomme as a 2023 Grantee in the category of Short-Form Writing. The grant program “supports writing about contemporary art and aims to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging with the visual arts…uplift[ing] the diverse perspectives of writers whose fine-tuned attention to the content and context of contemporary art-making helps to keep artists at the center of cultural conversations and debates—where they belong.” Bonhomme will write “a series of essays animating the reproductive lives of people of African descent as portrayed by contemporary Black feminist artists, filmmakers, and sages.” Atria/One Signal Publishers will publish Bonhomme’s forthcoming nonfiction debut, A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN SIX PLAGUES, on December 3, 2024.
Danielle Steel’s latest novel, THE BALL AT VERSAILLES, debuted on The New York Times Bestsellers list for the week of December 10, 2023, appearing at #13 on the Print Hardcover Fiction list and #10 on the Combined Print & E-Book Fiction list. Delacorte Press published the novel on November 21, 2023.
The New York Times published a striking review of the audiobook for Jessie Gaynor’s debut novel THE GLOW. Reviewer Olivia Craighead calls it “a deft sendup of wellness culture that delves a few levels deeper,” adding: “Gaynor understands what makes wellness appealing, and why even the most staunch nonbelievers could find themselves feeling completely satiated by a diet made up mostly of zucchini, kelp and money.” Random House published THE GLOW on June 20, 2023.
Scott Eyman’s latest book, CHARLIE CHAPLIN VS. AMERICA, was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by The New Yorker. They write: “[Eyman’s] book is lively and entertaining, adding significant detail to the story of Chaplin’s spectacular peripeteia. Eyman is completely sympathetic to Chaplin, and he makes the case that we should be, too.” Simon & Schuster, Inc published the book on October 31, 2023.
Esther Yi’s Y/N was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by The New Yorker, which called it “a strange, funny, and at times gorgeous new novel.” Astra House published the book on March 21, 2023.
Erica Berry’s WOLFISH was shortlisted for the 2024 Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association Book Award. The winners will be announced in January. Flatiron published the book on February 21, 2023.
AMONG THE BROS by Max Marshall was highlighted by The Guardian, where Sarah Hagi writes: “AMONG THE BROS has been pitched as a salacious true crime thriller about young men running wild. But Marshall uses the drug ring to show how the fraternity ethos shapes elite societies as a whole, beyond the College of Charleston: with impunity…Above all, Marshall’s book explores coming of age in a world that will not hold you accountable, even by law enforcement. Harper published the book on November 7, 2023.