Idra Novey is a finalist for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, which "celebrates emerged and continually emerging authors of major consequence—short stories and/or novels—at the relative midpoint of a burgeoning career.” The NewLit Board of Directors will announce the winner in mid-April. Viking published TAKE WHAT YOU NEED on March 14, 2023.

COUPLETS by Maggie Millner is a finalist for the 2024 Lambda Literary Awards in the Lesbian Poetry category. The awards ceremony will be held at Sony Hall in New York City on June 11, 2024. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published COUPLETS on February 7, 2023.

Deadline announced that Manuel Gonzales’ short story THE MINIATURE WIFE will be adapted into a dramedy series by Peacock, with Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen to star and executive produce. Riverhead Books published the short story collection on February 4, 2024.

HABITATIONS by Sheila Sundar was featured on theSkimm’s “Most Talked-About Spring Book Releases.” Skimms Reads editor Jana Pollack writes: “Before I get into the plot, I’ll just say: this debut novel is unassuming — easy to read, easy to get into — but it’s full of such feeling that I almost stopped reading because it made me too sad. It follows Vega Gopalan, an Indian-American grad student at Columbia University. The central sadness of her life (and the grief that almost kept me away) is the death of her sister. The book follows Vega to America, a marriage, a divorce, and motherhood, and quietly asks questions about identity and what ‘home’ really means. I’m so glad I kept going.” Simon & Schuster will publish HABITATIONS on April 2, 2024.

Antonia Angress was selected by the National Book Foundation via Charles Baxter as a “5 Under 35” honoree. Ballantine published Angress’ debut novel SIRENS & MUSES on July 12, 2022.

Publishers Weekly released a wonderful review of poet and therapist Joanna Pearson’s “rich debut murder mystery” BRIGHT AND TENDER DARK. The reviewer writes: “Pearson’s gift for texture and emotional resonance mark her as a talent to watch.” Bloomsbury Publishing will publish the novel on June 4, 2024.

Ryan Chapman’s THE AUDACITY has received generous press in the weeks leading up to its publication. The book was featured on San Diego Magazine’s must-read picks from local bookstores, where Matthew Hein of The Book Catapult praises: “If you like hilarious and action-packed novels about far-from-perfect people, have I got a book for you. Theranos meets THE BIG LEBOWSKI, with the luxury porn of CRAZY RICH ASIANS sprinkled on top.” Electric Literature published an excerpt from the novel, introduced with fantastic praise from Kevin Nguyen: “Chapman performs [a careful dance] throughout THE AUDACITY, a thorough and satisfying skewering of an illuminati-level elite…If you had the pleasure of reading Chapman’s first book, RIOTS I HAVE KNOWN, you know that he can land a high-concept satire. (RIOTS is about a literary magazine in a prison.) Similarly, THE AUDACITY is a novel with a heightened sense of reality. It’s not just the opulence of the secret Caribbean island where the story takes place—it’s the glimpse of an existence that is louder and more colorful than the universe we live in. And, of course, like any good satire, it’s funny—sometimes dryly funny, but in many moments actually laugh-out-loud funny.” Soho Press will publish THE AUDACITY on April 2, 2024.

Alex Van Halen’s memoir, BROTHERS, was featured in Rolling Stone, People, and The Bookseller following its recent cover reveal. The book’s editor, Sara Nelson, shared: “This book is a fascinating story of a band – and so much more: it’s also a chronicle of family and talent and the passion to create…It is the definitive take on Edward Van Halen’s life and death from the one who knew and loved him best.” Harper will publish BROTHERS on October 22, 2024.

A starred review from Kirkus for Plum Sykes’ WIVES LIKE US raves: “Sykes gives Kevin Kwan a run for his money in this saga of obscene wealth, designer outfits, miniature dog breeds, and over-the-top landscaping set in Oxfordshire, a rural area of vast estates now mostly in the hands of the nouveau riche…Crazy Rich Brits may not have the amazing cuisine of their Asian counterparts, but they are just as scheming, fabulous, and fun to read about…you’ll dive in and never look back.” The book was also featured in the UK’s The Times, where Simon Mills writes: “Its publication may still be two months away, but a new novel by Plum Sykes…is already being feverishly discussed…Attempting to do for the Cotswolds what F Scott Fitzgerald did for West Egg and its inspiration, the Hamptons (and what Peter Mayle did for Provence), WIVES LIKE US, set in the super-rich houses of West Oxfordshire, is a bandbox shiny satirette of country living where everyone is unmuddied but filthy rich.” Harper will publish WIVES LIKE US on May 14, 2024.

2054, the second novel from Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis following The New York Times Bestseller 2034, was named the NPR book of the day for March 18, 2024. Penguin Press published the book on March 12, 2024.

Danielle Steel’s latest novel, NEVER TOO LATE, debuted on The New York Times Bestsellers list for the week of March 24, 2024, appearing at #4 on the Print Hardcover Fiction list and #3 on the Combined Print & E-Book Fiction list. Delacorte Press published the novel on March 5, 2024.

The Tenth Anniversary edition of 10% HAPPIER by Dan Harris debuted on The New York Times Bestseller list for the week of March 24, 2024, appearing at #5 on the Paperback Nonfiction list. Dey Street Books published the new edition on March 5, 2024.